The Cascade, Specificity, and Inheritance

October 14th, 2008 • Web Design
Tags: cascade, cascading, css, inheritance, specificity, w3c.org

References:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/inheritancecascade
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html
http://molly.com/2005/10/06/css2-and-css21-specificity-clarified/
Stuff and Nonsense - Specificity - Andy Clarke
Molly E. Holzschlag - CSS Ref Card, Part 1
CSS Mastery – Andy Budd (ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-59059-614-2)
CSS Pocket Reference, Third Edition – Eric Meyer (ISBN-13: 978-0-596-51505-8)

Ref Cards, Cheatsheets, Cribsheets

October 14th, 2008 • Toolbox, Web Design
Tags: cards, cheatsheets, crib, reference, sheets

Molly E. Holzschlag - CSS Reference Card, Part 1
HTML and XHTML Cheatsheet
CSS 2 Cheatsheet

CSS Framework

October 14th, 2008 • Web Design
Tags: css, framework

References:
http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/blueprint_a_css_framework/
http://jeffcroft.com/links/2007/aug/04/blueprint-a-css-framework/
http://www.subtraction.com/2007/08/07/the-framewor
http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss/msg/d7171a8bef20b9a2
http://www.blueprintcss.org/
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=23298
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/frameworksfordesigners
http://960.gs/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/
http://jeffcroft.com/links/2008/aug/18/eric-meyer-the-lessons-of-css-frameworks/
http://www.inspiredbuddy.com/css/css-frameworks-for-designers/

Design Process

October 14th, 2008 • Web Design
Tags: 37 signals, procedure, process

http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/design_process/
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1061-why-we-skip-photoshop
http://marylandmedia.com/2008/06/37signals-loves-photoshop-and-won%E2%80%99t-admit-it/
http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/2008/jun/04/why-we-dont-skip-photoshop/
http://www.graphicpush.com/why-i-use-and-love-photoshop-for-mockups

Web Designer’s Job

October 14th, 2008 • Human Resources, Web Design
Tags: designer, job, reponsibility, Web Design

Workarounds, Filters, and Hacks

October 14th, 2008 • Web Design
Tags: css, filters, hacks, workarounds, XHTML

References:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/workaroundsfiltershacks
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/conditionalcomments
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/workaroundsfilters
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/hacks
CSS Mastery - Andy Budd

Doctype

October 14th, 2008 • Web Design
Tags: doctype, quirk mode, standard mode

References:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/doctypesniffing
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/

Best Practices

October 14th, 2008 • Web Design
Tags: best practices, css, html, XHTML

References:
CSS Mastery - Andy Budd
http://www.mezzoblue.com/css/cribsheet/
http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/04/css-best-practices/

CSS and Its versions

October 14th, 2008 • Web Design
Tags: css

References:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/css#css__fig_what-is-css_three-layers
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/csshistory
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/changes.html
http://webdesign.about.com/od/css2/a/aa090202a.htm
http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/introduction/index.html#new
creating sexy style sheets - jina bolton

HTML vs. XHTML

October 12th, 2008 • Web Design
Tags: css, html, web standards, XHTML

Why should we spend time to figure out what are the differences between HTML and XHTML?

References:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#diffs
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/htmlxhtml
HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference - O’reilly - Jenifer…
CSS Mastery - Andy Budd