Recently, I designed a print stylesheet for this site. In doing so, I became quite friendly with the W3C’s stylesheet working draft. Most of this draft is well thought out, but here was one section that seemed very poorly drafted; the section on page-margin content.
Flaws in the W3C’s working draft on print
| Posted: | February 2, 2010 |
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| Categories: | CSS |
| Tags: | CSS, css3, page layout, print, working draft |
iPad is the new Newton
Wednesday, Apple launched the iPad. Many people, myself included, feel that the iPad is an utter failure as a product, and here is why
Developing an image free design
With modern CSS properties like gradient, border-radius, and box-shadow, you don’t need images to make a compelling and beautiful website. While you may argue that none of these properties are supported in IE, some actually are (more on this in a bit), and, as for a beautiful web said, Keep calm and carry on (with HTML5)
Welcome!
Welcome to the new version of Paradox Designs. I worked on this version for just over four months, and it is better than the previous design for a number of reasons, such as:
- Cleaner code: This theme was coded 100% from scratch, so there is no sphagetti code, and no attempting to cover existing functionality with boilerplates or other hacks.
- Light CSS: Instead of using gradient images for backgrounds and all sorts of places, I took advantage of as many CSS3 properties as possible. So, if you are viewing the site in Chrome, Safari, or Firefox 3.6, it should look nice and pretty. If your viewing it on IE, well, you still get gradients, but they don’t look as good and you don’t get shadows and round corners
- No buggy jQuery: When I made the previous design, I was just getting into jQuery. As such, it was a bit, well, buggy. This site is much lighter on the Javascript. Gone are the featured post boxes, the tabs, the like (no one really ever used them anyway. I might bring them back later, but in a cleaner, better form.
Thats just a quick list.
Bear with me for a few days while I tighten all the bolts and get this ready for production. New articles are already waiting to be published!
Image from Flickr