Toronto Star Interview
June 10th, 2003
I was recently interviewed for an article on blogging that appears in today’s edition of The Toronto Star. There have been a number of interesting developments in blogging recently, including audblog and audioblogger for posting audio clips to your blog. This past Saturday was the First International Moblogging (Mobile Blogging) Conference in Tokyo.
CSS Menus on WebReference
May 29th, 2003
This week’s Webreference.com update by Andy King includes the Pure CSS2 Drop-down Menus I posted earlier in the week. The update includes links to examples of other hierarchical CSS menus by some talented web designers.
Revealing Accesskey Info with CSS
May 28th, 2003
The accesskey attribute is a useful feature that allows users to navigate websites via the keyboard instead of a mouse. Unfortunately not knowing what accesskeys are associated with each link makes them of limited value. Revealing Accesskey Info is a new article demonstrating how to use the :before and :after pseudo-elements to selectively display the accesskey assignments to modern web browsers.
Pure CSS Pull Down Menus
May 26th, 2003
Building on what I thought of on Friday, I’ve created a pull-down menu using only CSS! Once again, this effect won’t work in IE, but should do so in other modern browsers.
The Search for the Missing Link
May 23rd, 2003
The Search for the Missing Link is a new article demonstrating how to use CSS pseudo-classes to help users find hard to spot links on an otherwise well designed page. This is something I thought of just this morning, and you’ll need to use the newest version of Mozilla (1.3) to get the full effect!
Update:
Thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman for the link and kind words on his website, and thanks to everyone who sent in feedback on browser support. The technique has been confirmed to work in Opera 7, Safari, and Camino.
Speed Up Your Site
February 17th, 2003
Some of my CSS techniques are featured in Andrew King’s new book Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization. The product of years of research, the book shows you how to speed up your site from primarily a client-side perspective. You’ll learn how to optimize practically everything that goes into creating a web page, including (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, graphics, multimedia, and keywords. The book also covers the psychology of performance (response times and flow) plus advanced server-based techniques and compression.
