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Posts tagged css
Designing In The Browser – A New Way For Web Designers?
Jan 18th
Howdy
Is designing in the browser the new prototyping method of choice for customer focused web designers? Well, I’ve been reading up quite a bit on designing in the browser recently; “live prototyping” if you will.
There are plenty of arguments for and against this, and in all honestly I’ll likely still mock up my designs in Photoshop, test drive them with the client and then slice and dice ready for some nice HTML on the desktop.
However, the pros and cons of designing in the browser are well worth a read, there’s a great post on “Making Your Mock-Up In Mark-Up” over More >
Zen Coding by Smashing Magazine’s Sergey Chikuyonok – a web revolution?
Jan 10th
I was doing my usual reading up this weekend and came across a fantastic post on Smashing Magazine’s blog by Sergey Chikuyonik regarding “Zen Coding”.
To quote:
In this post we present a new speedy way of writing HTML code using CSS-like selector syntax — a handy set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. It was developed by our author Sergey Chikuyonok and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
So, it’s shorthand HTML right?
True, but it’s far far more than that; it’s a way of integrating shorthand HTML with common CSS to generate actual code. One line of “Zen Coding”:
html:xt>div#header>div#logo+ul#nav>li.item-$*5>a
Produces a More >
