Category: standards

Why niche networks will flourish and Facebook will flounder

It was just a couple of months ago that I was naively lobbying my friends to join Facebook. I envisioned creating a place where I could find out what everyone — especially people who were more acquaintances than friends — was doing, without the burden of keeping in contact with them individually. Joe was going [...]

How I learned CSS

I remember when I first tried to understand how to produce designs for the web — coming from the paper-based world, it was hard for me to accept everything that was suddenly out of my control. When I first tried to grasp CSS with the help of now-defunct Adobe GoLive, I bailed pretty quickly. Table-based [...]

rdmey refresh

When I started this about a month ago, I just grabbed a template that didn’t look too awful, changed a few colors, got rid of all the pixel-based font-sizing, and hoped that no one would look under the hood until I had some time to do it myself from scratch. With the holidays here, I [...]

Using ems for font sizing in css

A List Apart had a great article recently on using ‘em’ for CSS font-size declarations, which served as great back-up for some conversations I’d been having among coworkers. (It turns out that people who didn’t have a former life in print don’t necessarily understand what an em is: a self-referential unit of font size measurement, [...]

Standards for HTML emails?

After a couple of attempts that ended not-so-well, I gave up on HTML emails. I advise people to work with someone who’s an expert with them, or to at least use templates that are known to work, and then I wish them well. At a job interview I actually proclaimed my active dislike of HTML [...]