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Handcrafted CSS Workshop

September 16th, 2009 · 6 Comments

On Monday I joined nearly a hundred web geeks in historic Salem for a full day of markup and style at the Handcrafted CSS Workshop, hosted by Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte.
Dan and Ethan are both excellent writers with presentation skills to boot. So when I heard they were hosting a full-day workshop, I pounced […]

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How to flip the text direction & layout of a website with CSS

September 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

This is how I flipped a web site layout from a left-to-right text direction (English, Spanish, etc.) to a right-to-left text direction (Hebrew, Arabic). Unfortunately it’s not as easy as typing text-align: right. But the process was far easier than I imagined it could be. Here’s how I did it. This isn’t meant to be […]

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Filed under: Web · Typography · CSS · HTML · Example

Education for a team of none

June 18th, 2009 · 11 Comments

Over the past few years as a web designer I’ve noticed a lack of education specific to people like me. Let me take you through an example. But keep in mind, this isn’t the only example I could use, there are many.
I recently heard the wonderful Jared Spool speak on the topic of personas […]

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