Category Archives: Web Design

Better markup for Javablogs graphs 2

“Charles Miller”:http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ has posted up on the Javablogs confluence wiki some information on “including Javablogs generated statistics graphs”:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JAVABLOGS/Including+Javablogs+Statistics+Graphs+on+Your+Blog on your site. The example HTML mixes the semantics of the markup with the presentation logic: Entries Added There are several issues with this markup. Firstly, there is a @ @ with no purpose other than to [...]

Widegtopia – a website widget archive 0

A nice little site this – “Widgetopia”:http://www.eleganthack.com/widgetopia/ catalogues various widgets from websites. Resources such as this can help show just how functional a website’s UI can be, and more importantly can give some well needed inspiration to webapp UI designers. Its time webapp developers realised that their interfaces don’t need to be ugly, bland affairs, [...]

UI Design for Web Apps 0

Jean Tillman’s “article(Digital Web – User Interface Design for Web Applications)”:http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2003-11.shtml over at Digital Web Magazine outlines some of the differences between designing web sites and designing interfaces for web applications. Its well worth a read for anyone who develops web applications.

Updates to the Blockquote Javascript. 0

Dunstan Orchard has made some “great alterations”:http://www.1976design.com/blog/archive/2003/11/10/46/ to “Simon Willison’s”:http://simon.incutio.com/ Blockquote javascript code I’ve been using. His additions include properly handily empty cite attributes and handling plain text citations.

Yet more client-side sortable tables 0

Apparently Stuart’s “Sortable Table”:http://www.kryogenix.org/days/565.html code doesn’t work on the Safari browser, but this example does.

IE difficulties 2

Just spent ages tracking down a problem with some Javascript on IE 5.0….I was running a Javascript function using a Click Me! which worked fine on IE 6 (and firebird naturally) but refused to work on IE 5. Changed it to a which seemed to fix things. Oh well, I guess an easy life with [...]

Colour sites and tool roundup 0

A whole array of useful sites and tools for you today. * First off, this “on line PHP script”:http://www.nickherman.com/colormatch/ over at “nickherman”:http://www.nickherman.com/ will generate a colour palette based on a given colour. * “Colours on the web(Colours on the web – color Theory and color matching)”:http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/index.asp is a great site which also hosts a “colour [...]

CSS Resource roundup 0

Quite a few CSS resources have been sitting in my ‘to checkout’ bookmark folder for a while. * “Position Is Everything”:http://www.positioniseverything.net/ is a CSS resouce site focusing on the use of CSS for positional layout. The hosted “Perched Upon a Lily Pad”:http://www.positioniseverything.net/guests/3colcomplex.html design which I first found out about from “Simon Willson (Simon Willson’s Blog)”:http://simon.incutio.com/ [...]

CSS Zengarden 1

If you haven’t been already, you really should checkout the “CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) Zen Garden”:http://www.csszengarden.com/. The brainchild of “Dave Shea”:http://www.mezzoblue.com/, its a site with a number of high quality CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) designs showing what CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) can achieve in today’s browsers.