Yearly Archives: 2006

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CSS layout generator

Inknoise offers a great timesaver: a CSS layout generator that allows you to define how many columns the page should have, pixel widths, background colors, etc. Defining all this CSS code by hand is a pain, and Dreamweaver doesn’t help much, so these templates are…


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Zeldman on “Web 3.0″

In A List Apart (16 Jan 06), Jeffrey Zeldman offers a different perspective on the “Web 2.0″ hype. His explanation of the phenomenon is particulary succinct: Some small teams of sharp people—people who once, perhaps, worked for those with dimmer visions—are now following their own…


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First impressions count for websites

Web designers take note: you have less than a second to make a good first impression when someone visits your web page. Researchers [at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada] found that the brain makes decisions in just a twentieth of a second of viewing a…


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Meme overload

“Information overload” has been in our vocabulary for decades–we can all relate to the frustration of receiving 100+ emails a day and not having enough time to process all the information that comes at us. We joke about it. Philosopher Daniel Dennett offers a disturbing…


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Convert a table row to a hyperlink

Eric’s weblog – Convert Table Row to Hyperlink Thank you Eric – this technique saved me a lot of time. I was looking for a way to make an entire table row highlight (change color) on mouseover. This technique has the added bonus of grabbing…


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