The Future

11/05/2008 - [ web design html css html5 css3 interface ] - posted by fansipans

For warm fuzzies, read through the following documents:

The Working Specification of HTML5: New and better tags, client-side databases, native video and multimedia (goodbye flash!), canvas for drawing and rendering, input type "date", native tags for tree, list, and tabular data, a "command" tag (goodbye href="#" and href="javascript:void(0)" !)

CSS3, Current CSS Initiatives: A bonanza of syntax, attributes, and features to style HTML content in radically more ways than before. The wealth here is in the hundreds of little new features and attributes like: curved border corners with border-radius, an "opacity" property (opacity examples), color specification by hue, saturation, value, and optionally, alpha, and many, many, more.

CSS Typography - woowoo!

02/04/2008 - [ blueprint css webdesign web html interface design ] - posted by fansipans

I stumbled across a site I'd previously bookmarked many months ago, the Blueprint CSS Framework. It's a very simple and straighforward css library for layout, and I'm very impressed at how simple and how easy to use it seems to be.

From the site:

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

See a sample website built with BP, or a demonstration of the grid or a demonstration of the typography. The quick tutorial is also a good place to start. Blueprint is a <strong>CSS framework</strong>, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

See a sample website built with BP, or a demonstration of the grid or a demonstration of the typography. The quick tutorial is also a good place to start.