31st
January
2005
“One of the touted benefits of CSS is that it reduces total page weight, and thus download time, both at first page load, and even more on subsequent loads due to style sheet caching. This is true, but often a sizable fraction of the first load savings is lost because of highly redundant CSS code. Well that’s all over. Now you will learn some ’secrets’ of efficient CSS coding, enabling you to pare that style sheet right down to the bare bones. To be sure, you won’t achieve huge savings doing this, but for some highly competitive sites every little bit counts. There are several areas where byte-busting can happen, including shorthand†properties, multiple†declarations, default values, inheritance, and white space.”
posted in CSS | Permalink |
31st
January
2005
“Last Thursday Greg Storey posted an entry announcing a contest he was going to hold in order to obtain a logo for his friendís new business venture. Over 100 comments later it seems thereís a decently even split between those who agree with the contest and those who donít (I think I inadvertantly became one of the loudest proponents for the latter). I donít want to discuss the merits of the contest here (Iíve already been chided enough for trying to discuss it there) but I would like to approach one of the issues that the contest and all the subsequent discussion raises. And that is whether or not design contests that promise to make up in prestige what they lack in paying the bills are actually worthwhile.”
posted in Graphic design | Permalink |
31st
January
2005
“I had lunch yesterday with Beth Tondreau; and as it usually happens when meeting a designer at their studio, I found myself waiting for her to get that one last file out. In this case, it was a PDF file of a cookbook cover. Making small talk, I asked her if she was familiar with The Gourmet Cookbook; to which she instantly replied, ‘The yellow?’ Yes. That notorious yellow.”
posted in Color | Permalink |
31st
January
2005
“we’ve hand-drawn 79 low-priced icons, great for websites or applications. they are approx. 16×16 pixels and in GIF format. own them for use royalty-free in your own projects! $40 only $30 USD until march 1st [2005].”
posted in Interface design | Permalink |
