john robert boynton: RadioRadiolicentious radio(Untitled)- January 25, 2003 LaunchDaveWiner.org spokesperson Leonard Nimoy announced partial victory today: "There turned out to be some problems with sending Dave into orbit. The cost was one -- we raised a total of $83.68, somewhat short of the $40 million needed. But we have managed to send Dave to Harvard. It's still pretty far away, and he'll be there a lot longer, so we believe our four contributors will all be pleased."http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/radioradio/2003/01/25.html#a1103 (Untitled)- January 8, 2003 Underlining links was a seriously primitive choice for html. Underlining reduces readability, even if it adds emphasis. So your eye is attracted to the spot, but the text is difficult to read. CSS provides more options. Try: border-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: none. That also lets you get away from coloring the link text. You might want to add emphasis to a link by coloring it, but a lot of times there's no need. You can leave the text color alone, and just color the bottom border. If you...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/radioradio/2003/01/08.html#a1029 (Untitled)- January 8, 2003 One of the worst CSS tricks: set body text-align: center, and then a width for the content div. Anyone whose browser window isn't as wide as your div won't be able to see the whole page, won't even be able to scroll to read the part hidden to the left of the viewable area. (In Mozilla, at least.) Don't do this!http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/radioradio/2003/01/08.html#a1028 (Untitled)- January 2, 2003 One of the interesting questions in the current drive to using "structure" in html, is what we use structure for. Tantek Celik now makes each weblog post a list item. It's true that a weblog is an ordered list of posts, as a book is an ordered list of chapters, a chapter is an ordered list of sections, and a section is an ordered list of paragraphs. It's also true that a paragraph is an ordered list of sentences, which are lists of words, which are lists of letters. Some structure may be...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/radioradio/2003/01/02.html#a1011 |