Archive for the 'CSS' Category

Updated Xinha editor to use valid XHTML/CSS image alignment

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

I finally solved an old problem that has been buggin me, I have modified the Xinha editor’s image manager to insert class=”imgleft” or class=”imgright” into the img tag instead of the old, depreciated align=”right” or align=”left”. //

Has the Font Issue of the Internet Really Been Solved?

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Hello graphic designers, that the font issue of the web have been solved – you know the problem: the one where a designer can’t make the visitors of his new website view his his favorite pet font? Or has it really been solved? //

Custom Design, Purchased Templates, and Ethics

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Since custom design is my #1 job, I rarely need to use ready-made templates. When I do, it’s for good reason: the client needs to save money. These designs never get claimed as my own and never make it into my portfolio. //

Redesign of indyvineyard.org

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

As a members and designers, my wife and I both have the privilege to design work for the Vineyard Community Church (on the north side of Indianapolis.) While volunteer design work is hard at times due to scheduling and general life busyness, it occasionally rewards us with the opportunity to turn out projects that we [...]

Xinha Conversion to “What You See is What You Mean” Editing

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Awhile back I wrote about the problem of allowing website managers to write valid content for their content managed websites. I mentioned a wonderful editor called WYMeditor, which is great simple because it shows you the markup while you edit your document. Being no programmer, I am personally unable to shoehorn this editor into my [...]

Trash All IE CSS Hacks?

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Today I ran across a web designer blog supporting the idea to stop using IE hacks, to just let the browser bugs creep to the visible surface of every IE 6 user out in the web. According to the author: Let’s admit it, we all hate Internet Explorer 6. About 80% of our CSS debug [...]

Can Ethel the Secretary Produce Valid-tastic Content?

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

As most web developers can probably attest to, often there is a “cringe” moment when you pass off a beautiful, well-oiled, smoothly-running website to a lowly (but important) content editor who was volunteered for the job. For the sake of this article, I’m going to lump all of the valiant people who get stuck with [...]