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Category Archives: Web Design

The [Sorry] State of Web Design

Yeah, but …

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 9:54 am

Every now and then, someone comes up with a solution that seems so obviously wrong you immediately open your mouth to object. But by the time your mouth opens your brain has done some more processing, and you realize what you’re about to say isn’t really an objection. Nor is the next thing. And you […]

I don’t get it

Filed under: Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 8:56 am

OK, Andy so you’re mad about the Opera Lawsuit. I get that. You’re also frustrated with the inability of MS programmers to follow a spec. I get that, too. But this just doesn’t make sense to me. I just don’t see how it’s a practical idea to exclude from the creation of a standard the […]

CSS Reset

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 5:51 pm

Eric Meyer recently posted an update to his CSS reset file, and that plus other commentaries I’ve been reading made me ask the obvious question: Why? I know the logic behind it, I’m just not sure I buy into it wholeheartedly. Why add yet another file, yet another http request to the pages? I’m serious. […]

Writing, the anti-nebulizer

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 5:18 pm

Been processing some thoughts about CSS files and workstyles, and I think they’re about to bubble up and out. They’re still a bit inchoate (nice word, that; I learned it from a comic book back in my adolescence, so take that you literature snobs!) but I generally need to type them out in order to […]

Hacking into Joomla 1.5

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 11:20 am

Managed to clear most of the table cruft out of 1.5, only the content component to go. That one will be non-trivial but possible, nonetheless. I’ve been wrestling with a view other ideas along the way. The first is a question born out of frustration: Why do I have to do this? The Joomla developers […]

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