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Interviewing 9rules ~ A Group Interview

By Andrew Faulkner on January 31st, 2007.

It’s always a pleasure to interview a 9rules member and get their views on current web design issues. It’s even better to interview six at once. So without further ado, I present the 9rulers in question (in alphabetical order.)

Marco Jardim | http://blog.thewhitehawk.com/
Tammie Lister | http://www.diaryofawebsite.com
James Mathias | …

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Interview with Nicolò Volpato | He who designed PhotoMatt

By Andrew Faulkner on December 5th, 2006.

Welcome Nick. It’s a pleasure to chat. For those that don’t know you, could you say a few words about yourself.
Hi Andrew. It’s a pleasure for me too. Thank you for this opportunity. This is actually my first interview. My name is Nicolò Volpato, …

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Design Slumpbusting

By Phil Renaud on October 11th, 2006.

Just as every writer eventually experiences writer’s block, every designer will at some point in time hit a wall where they cannot easily continue designing through. When you’re grinding it out for a dayjob, it’s slightly easier - you at least have the paycheque to look forward to - but …

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CSS3: what it means, and what it doesn’t

By Phil Renaud on August 20th, 2006.

Just in case you missed it: The CSS3 preview.

What with standardists ruling the web trends scene right now, the emergence of a new specification template for CSS is bound to be a major point of consideration in future endeavors. It is not, however, going to be remembered as the …

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A shortcut to 456 Berea Street

By Johan on July 31st, 2006.

I interviewed (just a little) Roger Johansson, a webdeveloper living and working in Göteborg, Sweden. He is the driving force behind 456 Berea Street, a weblog where you will find a whole bunch of articles related to webstandards, accessibility and usability.

Roger has made a a best of archived articles …

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Design Resources of the Moment

By Phil Renaud on April 6th, 2006.

The past few weeks have yielded some pretty nice design resources. Here’s a roundup:

Very Simple CSS Tricks:  some simple, and functional bits of markup to help make your project run more smoothly. I like the idea - much akin to Slim, which I love.

CSS Float Tutorial Roundup:  …

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W3C’s CSS spec updates

By Phil Renaud on April 1st, 2006.

The W3C’s CSS specification update this week caught a number of people in the blogosphere off guard, by the look of things. I’ve gotten quite a few emails on the subject over the last couple days, and thought I’d address …

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Robert Nyman, Jonathan Snook and Dustin Diaz - a triple interview

By Johan on March 29th, 2006.

What binds the three together? Professional webdevelopers running a weblog about webdesign, coding tips related to client-side scripting and server-side programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MYSQL, AJAX, ASP, PHP, etcetera), usability, webstandards, accessibility and webtrends.

A short introduction

Robert Nyman is a developer from Sweden running his webjournal at …

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Weekly Design Resources

By Phil Renaud on March 10th, 2006.

note: every so often, most likely weekly, I’ll be updating here at fadtastic with the best design resources that have been brought to my attention throughout the week. Most of these come to my attention either through people suggesting them via email, or by way of my …

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When Distinctions ain’t so Distinct

By Phil Renaud on March 1st, 2006.

A case can be made that web professionals thrive on competition: different schools of thought on web development emerge and almost immediately compare themselves as being superior to predecessors/rivals (ie: “rails is like php, only maintainable”; “my flash app can do what your java app never could”).

It’s becoming a bit …

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Ajax - User Interface Libraries and Design Patterns

By michael on February 19th, 2006.

I was originally going to tell you how this book I’ve been reading, Ajax in Action by Dave Crane and Eric Pascarello with Darren James, has made me a Javascript phenom and how I’m putting together amazingly …

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Toggling Web Trends..

By Marc Bernstein on October 28th, 2005.

It seems everyone these days are allowing users to hide/show (toggle) content on demand. The code is a variation of using javascript and the DOM to change an object’s display properties.

The basic code:
function toggle() {

if (document.getElementById(’yourID’).style.display == ‘none’)
{
…

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