A closer look at CSS selector support in IE7, Part 1

by Mike Badgley on March 24, 2009

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 (…)

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Screencast Review: Design Fast Websites

by Mike Badgley on March 17, 2009

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, (…)

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Screencast Review: Professional Frontend Engineering

by Mike Badgley on March 17, 2009

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 (…)

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A small fix for Stu Nicholl’s drop down menu solution for IE6

by Mike Badgley on March 16, 2009

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 (…)

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Dealing with the annoyances of HTML emails

by Mike Badgley on March 11, 2009

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 (…)

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