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Best Sites of 2008
Yeah, I know it's a bit early to be making these kind of lists but towards the end of 2007 most sites that were flooding through my RSS feeds from CSS galleries all began to look the same, like they were being made by a factory of robots!
So I've been very pleased at some of the site that have been brought to my attention at the start of 2008. so I thought I'd do a list of my 5 favorite sites of 2008 so far. (In no particular order).
Shiflett.org
As the blog explain Chris Shiflett is an author and speaker who leads the web application security practice at OmniTI. Although I find the site design very techy it was done in a very clean and structured way, the tones are very subtle and it is also a very good read.
Simplebits.com
Simplebits was a clear choice, they are a well known web design studio founded by designer and author Dan Cederholm based in Salem, Massachusetts. The design itself is simplicity at it's best it only give you what is really required to see what the site is all about and the typography is great. The sections are clearly laid out to maximum effect and I can't wait until the shop opens to see the sort of t-shirts that go on sale.
Any thoughts on the above list is more than welcome, these are all sites that were built in 2008 just ones that have been bought to my attention since the start of the year.
So I've been very pleased at some of the site that have been brought to my attention at the start of 2008. so I thought I'd do a list of my 5 favorite sites of 2008 so far. (In no particular order).
Shiflett.org
Simplebits.com
Simplebits was a clear choice, they are a well known web design studio founded by designer and author Dan Cederholm based in Salem, Massachusetts. The design itself is simplicity at it's best it only give you what is really required to see what the site is all about and the typography is great. The sections are clearly laid out to maximum effect and I can't wait until the shop opens to see the sort of t-shirts that go on sale.
Any thoughts on the above list is more than welcome, these are all sites that were built in 2008 just ones that have been bought to my attention since the start of the year.
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Let's see a quick tip for aligning vertically navigation lists that use the tipical floated box approach to display the list in a row, but that have several items displayed across multiples lines.
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If you ever made a web site with the content in a center column and a different background for the body, or with a navigation bar not too tall, probably you experienced the problem of some elements not extending to the bottom of the browser window when the content height is lesser that the content area of the browser window.
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Let's see a quick tip for aligning vertically navigation lists that use the tipical floated box approach to display the list in a row, but that have several items displayed across multiples lines.
Vertical align for navigation lists with multiple lines.
Making web pages extend to the bottom of the browser window
If you ever made a web site with the content in a center column and a different background for the body, or with a navigation bar not too tall, probably you experienced the problem of some elements not extending to the bottom of the browser window when the content height is lesser that the content area of the browser window.
Making web pages extend to the bottom of the browser window.
A fix for float-margin inconsistences across browsers
While in the process of redesign one of my sites I stumbled upon some inconsistences in the margin applied to the floated boxes that I have in one of my pages. At first I thought that it was due another IE float bug (and it's in part true), but some tests proved that all browsers have issues when applying the margin.
A fix for float-margin inconsistences across browsers.
How to install Apache (and PHP+MySQL) on Windows
When you are making a web page, the easiest way of view a page stored in your hard disk is double-clicking in the file, which usually results in the page being opened in your default browser. Although this method (which I still use sometimes) it's good enough for simple static pages, it's not useful if you you are using server side languages, or even with pages that are static but use links relative to the server root. In this situations the a good solution can be set up a local test server for making all the design and tests in the same computer.
How to install Apache (and PHP+MySQL) on Windows.
Optimization of JPEG images: good quality and small size
Depending of the program you use for saving JPEG images, there are available some options for adjust the compression of the image. In this article I'll try to explain how to adjust that options and optimize the ratio between image quality and file size.
Optimization of JPEG compression settings.
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