http://douglast.com/thoughts Thoughts on Graphic and Web Design Thu, 15 May 2008 14:20:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The nice people at WebAssist.com are letting me try out their new CSS Menu Writer extension for Dreamweaver. I got a demonstration of it yesterday, and I've been putting it though it's paces this morning. It is exactly what the title would suggest, a CSS menu writer. Working through four tabbed ... http://douglast.com/thoughts/archives/142 IE 6 actually had the best CSS support of any browser when it first came out... SEVEN YEARS AGO. - CSS-Tricks Chris Coyier at CSS Tricks has written a very nice piece on IE6 CSS bugs. Anyone who's dealt with these will appreciate this list. Anyone who's fought with them and ... http://douglast.com/thoughts/archives/141 Attitude Design has an interesting take on Home Pages and Shop Windows. Retail shop windows carry massive lessons for home page designers. Take a high street fashion shop for example. The shop window will typically contain the following - the logo of the shop, some attractive graphics, some plastic models displaying ... http://douglast.com/thoughts/archives/140 Somebody asked me a good question today. To paraphrase, it was "what websites do you use to keep up with what's going on in the industry?". Here's the list: While I don't write about blogging, I do follow what's going on with that industry. It's too much of a factor in ... http://douglast.com/thoughts/archives/139 Despite early announcements that IE8 would default to displaying pages as if it were IE7, Microsoft is now announcing that it will default to Standards mode. This will alleviate the need for designers to opt out, by opting in as I've written about before. Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards Consistent with ... http://douglast.com/thoughts/archives/138 A List Apart: Articles: They Shoot Browsers, Don't They? This is gobsmackingly audacious. Imagine a new version of Word that behaves exactly like the old version of Word unless the document it is processing contains a hidden instruction to unlock any new features. That's what Microsoft is demanding that web developers ... http://douglast.com/thoughts/archives/137 456 Berea Street is linking to a great discussion on accessibility. But I am going to take this opportunity to re-inforce what I believe is the nature of our professionalism. We should make an effort to create accessible content, because it's part of our job. And frankly, it doesn't take much ... http://douglast.com/thoughts/archives/136 We've all done it. You right click to correct the spelling of a word, and you add the misspelled word to your dictionary rather than correct it. Firefox makes it easy to add new words, but they don't make it easy to remove them. Here's how to ... http://douglast.com/thoughts/archives/135 I've started using a great functional accessibility evaluator lately. A superb tool for testing and fixing accessibility issues on websites. A very powerful tool. Register for a free account and it gets even better. http://douglast.com/thoughts/archives/134 The restructuring of the VTTI website is complete. They didn't want a redesign in the traditional sense, they wanted to update and improve what they had. I've updated the colors and textures, as well as improving the quality of HTML and CSS. The end result is a site ... http://douglast.com/thoughts/archives/133