These are exciting times – and that term is used very loosely – as we near the end of IE6 and say hello to IE7  being the browser of choice for most users. With IE6 goes the near non-support of CSS selectors and we welcome a browser that support them – or does it?
There are many [...]

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• Tags: attribute, CSS3.info, IE6, IE7, selectors, test

I think it’s safe to say that we are smack-dab in the middle of a bloated Internet. Web sites are increasing in size and with that comes the extra waiting time for the page to load it’s content, graphics, CSS, JavaScript, Flash movies, etc., etc. It leads me to believe that designing a fast and [...]

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• Tags: HTTP, Nicole Sullivan, performance, slow, Smush It, sprite, YUI Theater

This morning I checked out a screencast by Nate Koechley called Professional Frontend Engineering, provided by YUI Theater. It’s quite lengthy (1:30), but well worth your time. Although nothing ground breaking or exciting is covered, I found it to be a good kick in the pants. Nate goes over the main technologies that we as [...]

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• Tags: JSLint, Nate Koechley, sprite, YUI, YUI Theater

I’m currently working on an template slice of a micro-site for one of our major clients and came across an annoying bug when attempting to implement Stu Nicholl’s CSS-only drop down menu solution for IE6. For some reason, any menu item that was in a ‘lit’ state would not display it’s drop down menu on [...]

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• Tags: drop down, hasLayout, IE6, Stu Nicholl

For all you Web developers out there, I know there is at least one thing we all have in common – our absolute hatred of HTML emails. They are a constant struggle and the backwards methods we are forced to use to make them work is downright embarrassing. How many times have you created a [...]

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• Tags: Campaign Monitor, Email template, Outlook 2007, tips