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The 960 Grid System

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:31:48 GMT

Templating for grid-based web layouts.

Link: http://960.gs/

The Story So Far

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:15:43 GMT

Why are standardistas not telling stories like the Flash guys?

Link: http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2008/0114_the_story_so.php

30 Orange Websites

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:54:59 GMT

How to use orange in your designs for the web.

Link: http://tutorialblog.org/30-orange-websites/

Web Applications 1.0 & HTML 5

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:44:09 GMT

Will it beat XHTML? I’m entirely curious.

Link: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/

Joyent Slingshot

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:17:40 GMT

Build offline-syncable web apps for Windows and OSX in Ruby.

Link: http://joyeur.com/2007/03/22/joyent-slingshot

A JSTL primer

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:18 GMT

Yeah, um, your template language doesn’t look that friendly

Link: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jstl0211.html

HAML: HTML abstraction

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:12 GMT

I don’t have a grasp for whether or not this is a good thing — I tend to like writing “the language that I’m writing” when I’m working

Link: http://dev.hamptoncatlin.com/haml

Form Widgets

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:34 GMT

Justin French examines (all too often overlooked) best practices in online form design

Link: http://justinfrench.com/index.php?id=161

Javascript chart plotting

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:27 GMT

SVG and HTML Canvas approaches, very interesting

Link: http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/

Making popular layout decisions

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:24 GMT

A web designer is a fascist oppressor

Link: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/making-popular-layout-decisions

Eight web design warm fuzzy feelings

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:28 GMT

Things that great coders always manage to pull off, but still feel warm and fuzzy about them every time

Link: http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/03/23/8-web-design-warm-fuzzy-feelings/

Alphabetized lists are random lists

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:14 GMT

Unless you know the exact wording of each item (each!) not just the one you’re looking for

Link: http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2006/02/06/alphabetized-links-are-random-links/

Ten realistic steps to a faster web site

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:38 GMT

Pretty reasonable tips

Link: http://alexander.kirk.at/2006/02/02/10-steps-to-a-faster-web-site/

A museum of drop-down menus

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:09 GMT

Great examples of why this particular navigational choice is terrible

Link: http://www.pull-down-menu.co.uk/

Printing a Book with CSS

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:21 GMT

Um. Printing (like “send it to a print shop” printing) from CSS isn’t ready for primetime — good tutorial for the brave though.

Link: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom

In search of the One True Layout

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:35 GMT

Perhaps the greatest collection of CSS techniques ever committed to markup

Link: http://positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/