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20 April 2006 Comments Off

Emerging Earth Spoofs Web 2.0

Jonic from Re:Retro worked up a kick-ass new spoof on Web 2.0 companies for Emerging Earth. You see, thats what the area of coverage is and it seemed appropriate to make a caricature of that which I cover by exaggerrating the way too stereotypical visual elements involved in any good Web 2.0 design.
Go check it [...]

20 March 2006 Comments Off

Layout Tweaks

I’ve been talking recently with several notable designers about the possibility of having a professional template created for this site. Though all were interested and several have provided quotes, I realized that even though this site is getting traffic in bucketloads right now, the income generated from it is negligible. Having a design [...]

1 March 2006 Comments Off

Designing Intuitive, Attractive Blogs

Blog Design is not something I claim to be an expert at, but as we continue this series, let’s take a step away from the code and look at the actual design process. Peter Flaschner of The Blog Studio specializes in design specifically for blogs. He’s a guy that understands how blogs work from [...]

23 February 2006 3 Comments

Floating Images

A question that I get often and frustrates many non-technical bloggers is how to wrap text around images. There are two different ways to do this. They both work, but the second example is seen as “proper” and standards-based.
In our example, we have a content area that serves as the body of the [...]

22 February 2006 25 Comments

XHTML in Blog Posts

Many blog editors provide a WYSIWYG and some do a fine job. There are some great desktop editors like Ecto (Mac and Windows) and Qumana which also provide interfaces to blogging.
While these tools make writing easy and straightforward, there’s always a need for some rudimentary HTML knowledge at the minimum. Some of the older [...]

21 February 2006 1 Comment

XHTML Page Structure

I mentioned earlier that I’m keen on doing a series on topics related to the structure of a blog – namely the HTML and CSS that form the building blocks that this series is named after.
Note: Technosailor readers keen on other reading, rest assured I will not be exclusively blogging this topic – and [...]