Category Archives: web design
Box model got you down? Try the CSS cheat sheat!
Boy, do I wish I had this nifty CSS cheat sheet when I was burning the midnight oil trying to figure out what the heck an inline element is. Yet another wonderful nugget brought to you by Lifehacker. (And thanks … Continue reading
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Adobe unveils its CS3 icons
Look, over at Adobe! It’s a color wheel! It’s a periodic table! No…It’s the icons you’ll have on your desktop for the planned Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) … and boy are they hideous! See the large image. One reader … Continue reading
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Instamatic rounded corner CSS boxes
Dear readers, this is perhaps as wonderful as the previously mentioned Table Tango. I’ve just stumbled across Roundedcornr.com, a Web site that quickly creates the code and images for those nifty little rounded boxes you see all over the place … Continue reading
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Quick HTML bar graphs with Excel, Table Tango
Stop using those annoying spacer GIFs or using weird CSS tricks, and try out this awesome technique for creating wicked cool online bar graphs in 5 minutes or less: INGREDIENTS: Microsoft Excel A pinch of math Table Tango (you’re going … Continue reading
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Web design inspiration galleries
Thanks be to Angela Grant and Will Sullivan for drawing attention to this fabulous Flickr gallery featuring screenshots for design inspiration. All dried up for ideas? Here are some other good ones to bookmark: CSS-Galleries, Web Creme, CoolHomePages, and, in … Continue reading
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Oh, green, how magazines loathe thee
Slate has an interesting article on the long-held belief in the magazine industry that green is the color of death and dismal newsstand sales. Not being a magazine guy, nor having majored in design, I had not heard of such … Continue reading
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Web Hosting Types and How to the Choose Best Hosting Service For Your Business
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Advice for young journalists
The constant, nagging question in our industry today is what to do about the future of news. Students are that future, and it’s imperative that those of us out in the trenches give them the best guidance possible. I recently … Continue reading
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From SND: A new way to read The New York Times
The NYTimes.com‘s Neil Chase demonstrated new software at SND that will give users a reading experience that is closer to reading the physical paper. And it looks sweet! To see the Times‘ own write-up about it, visit: http://firstlook.nytimes.com/?p=22 This feature uses Windows … Continue reading
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At SND: Where’s the story?
Scott Horner, multimedia journalist extraordinaire from the Sun-Sentinel, tells us about the key element to making strong multimedia features: Make sure there’s a complete story! Scott’s right when he says “interactive graphics aren’t about Flash.” It’s often the case that … Continue reading
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Live from the Society of News Design conference!
Hey Journalistopians, I’m blogging from the Society of News Design’s annual conference here in Orlando, Fla. (conveniently located minutes from my new home!). The SND conference this year officially opened with a keynote address by Robin Sloan and Matt Thomnpson, … Continue reading
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Scarborough: Online readership growing
Web readers can account for up to 15 percent of a newspaper’s audience, according to a recent study by Scarborough Research. The study analyzes the percentage of readers who only read the paper, readers who read both and readers who … Continue reading
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