Jan 28, 2008
WordPress
After reading Kim’s comment regarding the Morning Racer theme, I had an idea of how to achieve a consistent image and photo placement in a WordPress blog even if you decide to change the theme.
The solution would be a plugin which would provide a “standard” set of CSS classes for styling different image (and other element) positioning.
The great thing is that you could use these CSS classnames with any theme you like as long as you have the plugin enabled. It would be also possible to specify a prefared classname prefix (for example, kd-wide, mo-withborder-a or pa-image-a) so that the plugin’s CSS doesn’t mess with the theme’s CSS. It could also contain CSS styles for lists (like the “flat” and “spaced” ones used on this blog), “important” messages, etc.
A kind of a portable image positioning thing. And you wouldn’t have to learn new CSS classnames or image layout ideas offered by different theme authors.
What do you think? Maybe you have a suggestion of other items (apart from images and lists) that you would like to have special styling.
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Jan 25, 2008
Meta, Web Design
So instead of writing another post about how good or bad the proposed IE‘s meta tag is, I actually added it to the <head>. Some say — you don’t have to, if using HTML5, while I say — do IE6 and IE7 know what <progress> is?
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Jan 24, 2008
Web Design
I have thought about the suggestion to use browser version as a rendering-mode switch in IE8 for more then 24 hours now. Here is the verdict.
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Jan 23, 2008
Web Design
In defense of version targeting is a follow-up article by Jeffrey Zeldman to his previous post and the topic of browser version targeting feature planned for the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8. His arguments (in favor of version targeting) might seem to be valid at first, but they are not enough in comparison to those who are against the version targeting.
Let’s start with an example (dates and browser versions are made up and are not important to illustrate the point). I made a website a two years ago (in 2006) and followed the W3C standards which resulted in a perfect content rendering in most of the standards aware browsers. Read more »
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Jan 23, 2008
Web Design
The following articles in the latest issue of the A List Apart magazine explain the necessity of browser targeting with the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8, which is expected to be the most standards aware browser from Microsoft to date.
To me the idea of browser targeting seems absolutely absurd, and reasons for that are so many that it will require another post to explain them all in detail. Here are just a few. Read more »
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Jan 16, 2008
Meta, Web Design, WordPress
Just a quick note — this blog now has a new look. I call it the Morning Racer WordPress theme, which will be soon released public. Here’s the Morning Racer’s wiki page. What do you think?
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Jan 11, 2008
Web Design
Every week from now on I will suggest a podcast that I have been enjoying and you might too.
Lets begin with the Boagworld — a weekly audio podcast by Paul Boag and Marcus Lillington discussing the issues of web design, development and related news. Over 100 (and counting) episodes of the Boagworld are much more than just the Web design and development 101 course for someone starting out on the Web — it is The Late Night with Paul and Marcus for everyone involved in the web design.
Home page (and blog): www.boagworld.com
Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/boagworldpodcast
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Jan 5, 2008
Meta, WordPress
If you got the page not found error for the past two days, then let me tell you that the reason was the .htaccess file which got lost after the latest WordPress update. My fault.
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