Finding a CMS that has everything I want just got a lot easier thanks to the CMS Matrix comparison site. Brilliant. … [Read more...] about CMS Matrix
Web Design
Author profile pages in Movable Type
OK, I just had one of those forehead-slapping moments, so I have to share. I've always wanted Movable Type to support author profile pages, so that with multi-author blogs, the name could be linked in the "posted by…" line. The thing is, it IS supported. Here's where I … [Read more...] about Author profile pages in Movable Type
No FM to FR, rounded corners, and MT site management
Just got back from three solid days of wedding planning in San Antonio. More posts when I recover; till then, a web dev roundup: Andrei Herasimchuk on W3C specs: I would RTFM if there was an FM to FR. YES. Continuing in A List Apart's series of articles with silly titles, … [Read more...] about No FM to FR, rounded corners, and MT site management
IE7 0.5.1
Holy crap. IE7 has been updated and now there's box model and PNG transparency support. 'Scuse me, I must be dancing in the streets now. … [Read more...] about IE7 0.5.1
List of next three events from Movable Type calendars
This morning I needed a way to get the next three upcoming events from the HSC Calendar listed on the home page. Here's how I got it to work. I already had the calendar set up with some PHP to filter out events that happened before today (notes on how this was done). What I … [Read more...] about List of next three events from Movable Type calendars
quick links
on web design… Why Web Standards Are Difficult to Learn Gurus v. Bloggers, Round 1 To Hell With Color Coding Creating palettes from photos … [Read more...] about quick links
Five elements of good web design
Text never runs against column edges, borders, images, or captions. These items are separated by as much whitespace as possible. Headings are easily distinguished from paragraphs and list items. Headings and other emphasized items cannot be mistaken for links. Links are … [Read more...] about Five elements of good web design
Design Inspiration
CSS Vault Built for the Future Well-designed weblogs The Web Standards Awards … [Read more...] about Design Inspiration
Essential CSS links
Colored Boxes: CSS layout, step-by-step, the how and the why. Fabulous. Holy CSS, Zeldman! is a pretty comprehensive index of CSS, accessibility, and web standards sites. The author has highlighted the ones he considers essential, and I think the only one I'd call essential … [Read more...] about Essential CSS links
Illustrated MT Templates
I once drew a diagram of the default Movable Type templates so I could make sense of all the nested divs and whatnot. (The templates are more complex than they need to be for modern browsers, but all the redundancy ensures Netscape 4 compatibility.) Of course I promptly lost the … [Read more...] about Illustrated MT Templates
