Mike Davidson has written about his design signature which has inspired me to write about the elements of my web design signature. As he had mentioned, it seems following my signature leads to no or negligible use for IE specific style sheets.
I use ids only if there are javascripts that require one. Makes my styles a lot more re-usable and I don’t have to remember whether I used an id or a Class in the HTML when I write my CSS code.
It seems my vintage posts were a lot better than what I post now - or so I think. Here is a trip down the memory lane, through what I think are the best posts of Nimbupani circa 2005 and earlier. A lot of what I have written are no longer in the "future" but still make an interesting read.
I stumbled across IttyBiz blog two weeks ago. Naomi Dunford (a "word nerd") writes in a way that is entirely unique - full of humor and completely making sense (it is very hard to do both!). Recently, she wrote Marketing School: What The Hell Is Branding? which sent shivers down my spine (in a good way).
A brand does not convey ability. It’s not supposed to. A brand is supposed to convey consistency.
I often get asked about how I "handle" freelancing by wannabe freelancers. These are some of the basic steps any wannabe freelancer should take care of, before you jump into freelancing.
You need a memorable and recognizable domain name (Read on how to name your company) when you start your freelancing. Domain names get more quickly passed as references than name cards.
Do you know why CD cases are smaller than the DVD cases? Or why milk packets are square while soft drinks are in round containers? Or why you dont get taxis when it is raining (its not what you think is the reason)?
Get answers to these and more of everyday enigmas in this awesome slideshow on IHT
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Robert's Talk has an excellent post on what "web standards" mean and provides excellent links for further reading. Must read for people like me, who have a very good "idea" of what web standards are but never did an in-depth research!
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I spoke about it 2 months ago when I asked Michael Smith of Opera about Firebug and what they have to offer. He did tell me that they are going to have something that solves the same problems like firebug within "this year" (2007) - i had no idea it could happen so soon!
Anyways, all you web developers - please download this: Opera and then get this: Opera Developer Console
Of course, it is all quite shaky still (bad UI and all that). But, I am glad, they have come out with it - soon I can get rid of Firefox forever :)
I just read this on the sample chapter from Don't Make Me Think:
My favorite example is the people (and I’ve seen dozens of them myself) who will type a site’s entire URL in the Yahoo search box every time they want to go to there—not just to find the site for the first time, but every time they want to go there, sometimes several times a day. If you ask them about it, it becomes clear that some of them think that Yahoo is the Internet, and that this is the way you use it
