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Give Your Site Design Super Powers! Learn to Bulletproof with Dan Cederholm

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Image of the book, Bullet Proof Web Design

I’ve written several times about all the great resources online for web designers; free tutorials, videos, blogs, I love them all! But there are definitely times when I really want the convenience and comfort of a bound, paper book to read and carry with me. (Maybe I’m an old fashioned girl…) With so many books on web design out these days, I don’t always know which ones will make the best investment. As much as I love to read, spending time and money on a terrible book invokes the same anger and disappointment as walking out of the theatre after seeing a terrible movie – I want those hours and dollars back!

Luckily, my time and hard earned cash has been extremely well spent over the past few weeks on Bullet Proof Design by Dan Cederholm. (more…)

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Cinderella and her magical CSS

Monday, August 17th, 2009

After a very long evening of research, testing and working through one of my least favorite issues – cross browser optimization, I came upon an article that made my night a little brighter. I loved this quote, all my frustration had been summed up so beautifully:

In an ideal world, you only need one set of CSS style sheets for your website, and those styles will work with every browser currently being used. This, as every webmaster soon finds out when he/she uses CSS, is a pipe dream. (more…)

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