August 2002

Tiny Screens

Since I haven’t jumped onto the wireless platform bandwagon yet, designing pages for the AvantGo channel has been an interesting challenge. Not too difficult, because there aren’t many choices. But that’s the challenge of it. It’s like trying to say as much as you can with as few words… continued

29 Aug 2002 in Technology, Wired Comments off

News on the Go

I took a look at some pages today that Wired News generates for our AvantGo channel. The AvantGo reader only supports a limited subset of html 3.2 tags, according to their style guide for developers. After reading though their guidelines, I tackled rewriting and applying a simple redesign of… continued

28 Aug 2002 in Web, Wired Comments off

Credit Where It’s Due

It’s worthwhile mentioning that a lot of the initial research on multi-column CSS layout for the Wired News redesign was done while studying examples from Eric Costello’s CSS Layout Techniques at glish.com, as well as Rob Chandanais’ Layout Reservoir at bluerobot.com. I started by relying on CSS2’s float property… continued

26 Aug 2002 in CSS, Web… Comments off

Contact Made

I sent a note yesterday to Eric Meyer (considered the expert on CSS, and author of many of the books I’ve been referencing about the subject) and to Jeffrey Zeldman (co-founder of The Web Standards Project and creative director of A List Apart). It was a long message, and… continued

22 Aug 2002 in Wired Comments off

News Worth Noting

I should mention here one of the major reasons I’ve become obsessed with Web standards and CSS. My current project (as Design Director of Wired) is a complete redesign of Wired News. See a screenshot of the before state [.gif, 35.7 KB] from Feb. 2002. This WN has been… continued

21 Aug 2002 in CSS, Design… Comments off

Craving More Style

Duly noted that the second broadcast for Leno has already begun on NBC means I didn’t even beat Carson and his Last Call to bed tonight. Eric Meyer’s latest book, Eric Meyer on CSS, Mastering the Language of Web Design, just arrived from Amazon yesterday. I’ve already skimmed through… continued

20 Aug 2002 in CSS Comments off

Something New

It’s with great humility that I hammer out this first post. Humility, because I enter the game way after many others. Humility because others have been practicing and polishing their writing on a daily — or somewhat daily — basis for x years times 365 days. The sheer size… continued

19 Aug 2002 in Personal 1 comment

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