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Usability tip: Implement web page titles as inverted breadcrumbs

In the past, I implemented web page titles (i.e. the code in the <title> tag) the same way that one would implement a breadcrumb – that is, from the least-specific to most specific. For example:
Web Site Name: Category: Page Name
That is similar to how a breadcrumb would look:
Home > Category > Page Name
Note that I [...]

Posted 27 February 2009 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)

Naming CSS properties, HTML properties… and fighting five-year olds

It started innocently enough when I stumbled across a blog post over at PoshCSS, How many CSS Properties can you name in 7 minutes? Curious, I took the test.
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That took me to another test: How many HTML elements you can name in five minutes? I took that test, too.
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This in turn took me to the [...]

Posted 08 January 2008 § Personal § Technology ‡ Comments (0)

CSS styled forms

I like using CSS for layouts and for making sites look pretty — partially because it’s a challenge that is quite satisfying when it works, and partially because I’m not a designer and don’t do well with more robust design elements.
One thing that I often liked using CSS for is for forms. For the past [...]

Posted 19 February 2007 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)

Styling your checkboxes and radio buttons

A fantastic Web page called Styled Checkboxes describes how to use CSS and JavaScript to create graphical checkboxes and radio buttons that depreciate to the standard checkbox and radio button HTML controls when CSS or JavaScript is turned off. It works, too - and is definitely worth checking out as a way to pretty up [...]

Posted 13 July 2005 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)