Posts in Web Design

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Sep 06, 2006
Web Design

IE 7 Developer Center Updates

Dave Massy, a PM from the Internet Explorer team, blogged about the revamp of the IE Developer Center on MSDN: We've worked to make some of the essential links such as reference material easier to find and we will be promoting different content on...

Sep 05, 2006
Web Design

Microsoft Expression Web Beta 1 Available!

Microsoft just released Beta 1 of their new, designer-oriented web development product, Expression Web. Expression Web, which requires v2.0 of the .NET Framework, can be downloaded for free from Microsoft (requires free registration and a Windows ...

Aug 22, 2006
Web Design

Master List of IE 7 CSS Compatibility Improvements

Markus Mielke, a Program Manager on the Internet Explorer team, has published an exhaustively thorough list of changes to IE 7’s CSS support on the IE Team blog on MSDN. Markus also makes mention of the IE 7 Readiness Toolkit, which provides: ...

Aug 20, 2006
Web Design

8 Steps to Better Markup

Tantek Çelik of Technorati, Microsoft, and W3C fame published a great article a few weeks back on how to create and serve better XHTML in eight easy steps. I missed this when it first came out, so maybe you haven’t seen it either. It’s all great s...

Aug 17, 2006
Web Design

To Hell with Web Standards?

That’s the approach Dare Obasanjo mulled over yesterday on his weblog. He excerpts a blog post from Anne van Kesteren on the subject, discusses his own experiences with the W3C, and ponders our options: The question I sometimes ponder is what's th...

Aug 16, 2006
Web Design

Death of a Salesman…Err, Site Relaunch

Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering published a fascinating article way back in 2003 about the death of the major site relaunch: [T]he best sites have replaced this process of revolution with a new process of subtle evolution. Entire redesig...

Aug 15, 2006
Web Design

Picking a Screen Resolution

Every year or so, I check into the latest recommendations on website sizing and screen resolutions. Surprisingly, about 17% of web users still browse at 800x600px, which may sound like a small number, but remember that there are 200,000,000 Intern...

Aug 15, 2006
Web Design

Time Magazine' 50 Coolest Websites

Time just published their list of the 50 coolest websites of 2006. Not surprisingly, they highlight a number of sites that fall under the banner of Web 2.0, such as Farecast (my new favorite site), Zillow, Meebo, YouTube, and Pandora (even though ...

Aug 12, 2006
Web Design

Redesigning my site

Almost on a whim earlier tonight, I decided to rebuild my personal website from scratch. I backed up all of my content from Movable Type, installed a brand-new, spiffy copy of MT 3.31 onto my site’s root and a new database, and let ‘er rip. A few ...