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Designing in code, twenty-ten, and writing again (in no particular order)

I managed to “realign” the design and structure of this site. For this iteration, I made it a point not to open an image editing program and instead prototyped and built it strictly with code. I greatly enjoyed doing it this way and I think it helped keep the design simple.

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design
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Titanium takes great strides forward

The new Titanium beta is going to give Adobe Air a run for their money, allowing iPhone and Android app development to be done using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

code
development
open source

Designing Individual Blog Posts (Your Own Personal CSS Zen Garden)

Tired of redesigning your site? Why not style your posts individually? If you’re up for it, there are a number of things to consider and a number of things to avoid.

code
css
design
textpattern
wordpress

Code Overhaul (How and Why I Started Using HTML 5)

I think 2009 is going to be the year of HTML 5. I took the plunge and others are doing the same. If we, as developers and designers, don’t start using it and working with it on a regular basis, we’ll never be able to give the needed feedback before the final draft is released. Here’s a little advice on getting started and my thoughts on the state of its development…

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html
html5

Pained by Invalid Code

I am a stickler for HTML/CSS validation when I build web pages – to the point that I’d be called militant in every respect. Why do some people choose to use invalid code while others painstakingly make sure each line of their code is well formed? He’s why people don’t and why they should…

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design
html
validation

My Mission - Blogging Resolutions

Writing my new years resolutions kept me thinking this year. I’ve done the same for what I want to accomplish on this blog – to help me keep focused for what I want to share…

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code
design
life
open source
standards

Unobtrusive Expand and Collapse Navigation

Create a vertical navigation that will expand and collapse to show and hide sub-navigation using only unordered lists and as few class/id names as possible…

code
javascript
navigation
unobtrusive

Dissecting Code

I enjoy seeing how website designers and developers make their websites and I spend a lot of time looking at the code behind the site, more so than I read their articles (sometimes)…

code
development
html

Internet Explorer and Web Standards?

It’s almost an oxymoron. Here are my two cents on the fact that IE has finally adopted web standards…

code
ie
standards

Shorten document.getElementById

Do you write document.getElementById or document.getElementsByTagName too many times in your javascript to count? How about shortening them into their own easy to use functions?…

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javascript