smashingmagazine.com — 35 professional designers disclose their favorite CSS technique, how they prioritize their designs, their favorite font, their most read design-related book and the design magazine that they read religiously.
Apr 19, 2007 View in Crawl 4
reddevil3Apr 20, 2007
A list apart is such a gorgeous website.
rstrb8rApr 20, 2007
In the article, Nick Francis's reply to the first question includes: "We consciously don?t consider code at all during the design process. Our designer still does a lot of print work, and what?s great about print is that there are no constraints. Print design has no boundaries with texture, typography or the smallest of details. As long as it fits on the page, it works! "Obviously, he knows nothing about print design, print production, prepress and offset printing. I can venture that he is equally inept at web design, programming and usability.There's one set of answers I don't need to continue reading!
bat_21Apr 20, 2007
SmashingMagazine needs to hire of these designers to redesign their bland, clunky website.
higherlogicApr 20, 2007
web developer > web designer > graphic designer > designer...at least in terms of the web. Great article by the way, and Krug's book is definitely a *must* for any web developer, it should be required reading. Usability should be the foremost concern for any website. Just common sense.Oh, and the second book on the list is actually available online (well, the "for the web" version is, which is probably a better choice anyways):<a class="user" href="http://webtypography.net/">http://webtypography.net/</a>
david76Apr 20, 2007
It seems odd to ask a designer about a CSS technique they use. I usually don't think of design as implementation in code, but rather just design, usually, in Photoshop.
joaobApr 20, 2007
Dugg because one of the designers admits to using text-indent to cheat at SEObrilliant!
jimcarrey363Apr 20, 2007
The best comment in that article......"One particularly useful tool are conditional comments, allowing me to serve up fixes for the broken rendering in Internet Explorer 6 and 7. Even though IE7 is newer, it is still far from being a good product. I am thankful that Microsoft at least provided us with a work-around solution for their shoddy browsers."Suck it MS.
insub2Apr 20, 2007
Great! Just super!my two favs:# Using overflow:auto to clear floated elements. Simple Clearing of Floats. [Matthew Buchanan, New Zealand]# Using more than one class per element. For example, I could give a paragraph tag two classes.. This may seem extremely novice but I find that when I talk to people about this, they have no idea it?s possible. (This also comes in handy when you want the last element class to take on a slightly different property as the ones before it.) [Matt Downey, US]
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