With cr2004.com I got to experiment with taking the print layout principle of baseline grid and applying it to the web.
What is Baseline Grid?
First off, here’s an example grid using the CR design. The basic concept is that the baselines of your text line up across all of the columns. The baseline is […]
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Monthly Archives: February 2004
Baseline Grid on the Web
Sunday, February 29, 2004
CR : Spring Into Romance
Sunday, February 29, 2004
I just launched the website for CR : Spring Into Romance, a volunteer run yearly conference for readers of romance novels. Exceedingly feminine color theme, yes, but I got to experiment with bringing a highly technical layout theory from the world of print design into a web page: baseline grid. Of course I have no […]
Flash form? NO!
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Speaking of hot, check out these form fields. There’re certainly not for http://www.picment.com/articles/css/funwithforms/ any web app, but Søren discusses usability and other considerations in his article Fun with forms - customized input elements.
Popgrafix Hentai Art
Sunday, February 29, 2004
I’ve never been a huge fan of pop art, but toss in a little bit of tasteful* hentai and it’s actually very nice. I guess if pop art is distilling something down to it’s simplest form then adding bright colors if the orignal is a soup can it’s fairly lame, but if it is a […]
Intuos2 - The Professional Tablet System
Saturday, February 28, 2004
New item on the wish list. See how the drawing of the wizard’s duel cards goes before I think about getting one. I’ve been in a creative mood lately.
Styling <abbr> in IE
Saturday, February 28, 2004
These crazy romance readers have their own set of abbreviations which, while they are an almost necessary convenience for those who use them could be intimidating to someone new to the conference. But of course IE only supports the accronym tag, which they really aren’t, so I tracked down this workaround. It would be ugly […]
Apache fix for CSS rollover flicker
Saturday, February 28, 2004
I wonder if I can get Michelle (our server admin) to try out this fix? It would be nice to kill the problem at it’s source rather than severely restrict my CSS just for fellow web developers who should be browsing using Moz anyway.
Minimizing Flickering CSS Background Images in IE6
Friday, February 27, 2004
First reaction: this is bullshit! Second reaction: I don’t fucking care. Third reaction: Everybody and their mother uses IE, I don’t have much of a choice but to try and fix it. Fourth reaction: the people that have changed their temporary internet settings so that this bug occurs are more technical than their mothers, so […]
Implications of Column Width
Thursday, February 26, 2004
The challenge has been set, can the web development community discuss design in an intelligent manner, voicing opinions but then reinforcing them with concrete details?
The whole fixed vs. fluid layout debate resurfaced a little while ago. I have my own opinion, that a fixed width web page is not a true web-native […]
IE Escaping Floats Bug
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Items floated within a container that has a border escape that border and run amuck. On a roll here, think I can hit them all?