tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:14:11 +0000http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/noreply@blogger.com (John Davey)Blogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-1375357009002054510Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:33:00 +00002008-06-25T21:36:09.179-04:00At our June meeting, we talked about the "cascade" in cascading style sheets. We looked at the different ways of applying styles to a page and how the cascade determines which of conflicting styles is applied to an element. We reviewed browser default styles and how a user can change those default settings. We then looked at inline, embedded, linked, and imported styles. Where styles conflict, http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/06/june-meeting-report-cascade.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-1381855699618816288Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:16:00 +00002008-06-11T22:17:57.858-04:00The next meeting of the PACS CSS Workshop will be held this Saturday, June 14, at 9-10 am. We are meeting on the second Saturday due to the school schedule. This meeting is the last until September. The agenda is still being worked on. There are a couple of topics that ought to fit into the session so that we do not run over to next year. And speaking of next year, we will have an exciting http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/06/june-14-meeting-announcement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-7112929600491905363Fri, 30 May 2008 00:51:00 +00002008-05-29T20:51:01.521-04:00Following up on our recent discussions at the Workshop and in Web Design, here is an article from Smashing Magazine on Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs. The article adds some more information to our talks about the Rule of Thirds.http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/05/applying-divine-proportion-to-your-web.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-6144329036384295189Mon, 19 May 2008 01:27:00 +00002008-05-18T22:14:22.666-04:00Our May meeting was about effective ways to lay out webpages. We started by briefly looking at Dreamweaver templates. We touched on this subject in April when we were talking about Contribute. Templates can be convenient for an individual developer, and in an enterprise setting, templates can enforce controls over changes that can be made on a page by other people editing the site. We then http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/05/may-17-meeting-report-grid-based-design.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-6724248947812927369Wed, 14 May 2008 03:20:00 +00002008-05-13T23:21:38.325-04:00The next session of the PACS CSS Workshop will be this Saturday at 9 - 10. This month, we will to continue our discussion on tools for using CSS more effectively. We reviewed some in April, and I want to look at a few more this month. We will start with Dreamweaver templates, just to give a general idea of how they work. The topic is not specific to CSS, but it ties in with the discussion http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/05/may-17-2008-meeting-announcement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-4798054403806821727Thu, 08 May 2008 00:26:00 +00002008-05-07T20:26:37.472-04:00At our last meeting, we talked about RSS readers during our discussion of some good online sources of information on web design. I used FeedDemon as an example of a stand alone RSS reader. This pretty thorough article, FeedDemon 2.6.1 at Regular Guy Reviews, compares FeedDemon with Google Reader. The author likes them both and basically says it comes down to how you access your feeds, from one orhttp://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/05/feeddemon-261-regular-guy-reviews.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-3111606650862750816Mon, 05 May 2008 20:22:00 +00002008-05-05T16:24:30.984-04:00If you have wondered about how to organize your stylesheets, check out the ideas at Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides from Smashing Magazine. Note the references to additional sites on the topic of CSS coding.http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/05/article-improving-code-readability-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-4041044814964383227Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:42:00 +00002008-04-19T23:24:25.427-04:00At the April session, we looked at a number of resources and utilities for improving our ability to make effective websites and do so efficiently. First were two websites that publish up to date information on web design and development: SitePointSmashing MagazineIn Smashing Magazine, we looked at article on The Best of March 2008 and articles on creative ways to style forms and footers. This http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/04/april-17-meeting-report-css-tools.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-6758627963319071377Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:03:00 +00002008-04-17T22:15:52.925-04:00The next session of the PACS CSS Workshop will be this Saturday, April 19, at our usual 9-10 am hour. This month will be review a number of tools for web design. I will review a couple of websites that I have found to be useful and show examples from those sites of creative ways to style forms and footers (really). We will then talk about the concept of the “browser reset” and how that might http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/04/april-19-meeting-announcement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-6252967397654033222Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:05:00 +00002008-04-17T22:02:40.751-04:00From O'Reilly Media comes this news about a webcast featuring author Steve Souders: Under his tenure as Chief Performance Yahoo!, Steve released YSlow and wrote High Performance Web Sites (at one point the #1 selling computer book on Amazon). Now at Google, Steve is working on a new set of best practices for making web sites even faster. In this webcast Steve explains the Performance Golden Rule,http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/04/oreilly-webcast-even-faster-web-sites.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-4471487253119988378Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:51:00 +00002008-03-17T21:56:46.137-04:00At the March meeting of the PACS CSS Workshop we worked on techniques for styling forms. We used examples from the book The Art & Science of CSS from Sitepoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cssdesign1/. Our emphasis was on keeping good HTML as the foundation of our pages and using techniques to make the forms accessible. We then worked on styling that would make the forms not just visually http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/03/march-15-2008-meeting-report-styling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-1553540482835179388Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:35:00 +00002008-03-13T22:37:16.926-04:00The next meeting of the PACS CSS Workskhop will be this Saturday, March 15, at 9 am in room 713. Javascript will not be meeting this month, so we will have some extra time to play with. We will cover the topic of styling forms, which we had intended to do last month before the snow came. We should be able to complete the topic and then have some time for a couple of other subjects, like http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/03/march-15-meeting-announcement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-660326296332093850Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:35:00 +00002008-02-20T20:39:49.018-05:00The next meeting of the PACS CSS Workshop will be this Saturday, February 23, at 9 am. Our topic this month will be styling forms. We covered this subject in Web Design SIG some time ago, and I have some additional examples to demonstrate. We will be looking to use CSS to make forms more usable for visitors, not just style for its own sake. The Javascript Workshop is on hiatus this month, so we http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/02/february-23-meeting-announcement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-434395547918736098Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:57:00 +00002008-02-02T09:57:57.395-05:00SitePoint recently sent me a link to a site called CSS Reference. As they describe it: In this free online reference, the entire CSS language is clearly and concisely explained, including browser compatibility, working examples, and easy-to-read descriptions. The reference has been written by two of the world's most renowned CSS experts -- Tommy Olsson and Paul O'Brien -- so you know it'shttp://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/02/online-css-reference-from-sitepoint.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-7681229280572032289Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:54:00 +00002008-01-28T19:59:00.691-05:00This job opening was sent to me from a recruiter whose client, located north of Philadelphia, PA, is a rapidly growing global leader in the e-commerce industry. The Senior Web Developer II will be act as a liaison for communication between the Creative and Engineering teams including Graphic Designers, Marketing Groups, Information Architects, as well as Project Management Teams. An extensive http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/01/web-developer-position-in-philadelphia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-4006322161419810899Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:21:00 +00002008-01-26T21:34:20.704-05:00At our January meeting, we looked at creating rounded corners on boxes using CSS. We looked at small boxes and then full page layouts, both fixed-width and fluid width. With table based layouts, we made rounded corners by putting curved images in the cells at the four corners of the table. CSS uses the same concept, but the images are backgrounds to the elements of the HTML. For fixed-width http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/01/january-26-meeting-report-rounded.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-5904888251092986760Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:31:00 +00002008-01-23T23:32:58.753-05:00The next meeting of the PACS CSS Workshop will be this Saturday, January 26, at 9 to 10 am. This month, we will talk about using CSS to make rounded corners. If you look at any current website, you can see that the old boxy layouts have often given way to rounder looks. It's not just for looks, though. Varying the style of elements on a page can help draw attention to those elements, and there http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/01/january-26-meeting-announcement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-7506577928557846568Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:05:00 +00002008-01-11T22:05:42.162-05:00FeedDemon is an excellent RSS reader that is written by Nick Bradbury, the talented developer who also created the TopStyle web editor. Bradbury's products are published by NewsGator, which announced this week that FeedDemon and several other products in its RSS Web 2.0 Suite for Individuals are now free. Check out FeedDemon, and be sure subscribe to CSS Workshop site's RSS feed.http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2008/01/feeddemon-rss-reader-is-now-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-6307382066425181252Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:55:00 +00002007-12-30T19:19:28.942-05:00I can't help blogging this news from Netscape. I was surprised when version 8 of the Netscape browser came out because I thought all of Netscape's browser development had been turned over to the Mozilla Foundation. Version 8 was neat, though. It let you switch between the Firefox engine and the IE engine, so in one browser, you could check how a page would look in those two browsers. Version 9 http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2007/12/end-of-support-for-netscape-web.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-6319001393587571568Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:28:00 +00002007-12-23T22:30:53.223-05:00Please note that due to a scheduling conflict at the school where PACS meets, the January meeting will be held on Saturday the 26th, one week later than previously scheduled.http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2007/12/january-meeting-rescheduled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-4167733087970372392Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:24:00 +00002007-12-13T23:26:42.893-05:00The next session of the PACS CSS Workshop will be this Saturday, December 15, at 9 - 10 am. We finished up on styling tables at the last meeting. This month, the topic is IE Hacks. I will use an example that I picked up at a seminar to show a couple of problems with Internet Explorer when it comes to positioning elements using CSS. I thought the presentation was a good overview of a subject thathttp://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2007/12/december-15-meeting-announcement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-8286122828805128046Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:05:00 +00002007-12-09T22:05:00.092-05:00Saul Rosenbaum is a frequent guest speaker at the PACS Web Design SIG. He will in fact join us at the December 15 meeting. Saul showed us a number of interesting online utilities and resources when we was last with us, and he was good enough to share with me his list of Bookmarklets, Links and Favelets for the Busy Webdeveloper. Some of these he demonstrated at our meeting, and all of them will http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2007/12/bookmarklets-links-and-favelets-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-4276484111746939728Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:50:00 +00002007-11-25T10:09:21.719-05:00At the November session of the PACS CSS Workshop, we finished up on the topic of styling tables by working on borders and frames and continued with background images. We tried some samples from a couple of CSS books and concluded by looking at some good examples from different sources. Here are some additional sites about table styling. Take a look for inspiration, and check the sources to see http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2007/11/november-17-meeting-report-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-8422545462279593686Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:42:00 +00002007-11-14T10:50:57.851-05:00The next session of the PACS CSS Workshop will be this Saturday, November 17, at 9-10 in room 713. This month we will finish up the topic of styling tables. There was more to it than I had originally thought, but we will conclude this month by putting the styles all together to improve the appearance and readability of tables. Our lineup of web-related meetings will be at full strength this http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2007/11/november-17-meeting-announcement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198671.post-6556653655621864192Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:14:00 +00002007-11-05T22:09:02.953-05:00I came just across this site called Data Tables and Cascading Style Sheets Gallery, and it fits right in with our recent sessions on styling tables. The site is basically like csszengarden. Chris Heilmann, the owner of the site, posted a table and invited users to submit styles for it. Each example is the same table but with a different style sheet. If you are using Firefox or another browser http://jadavey.net/PACS_CSS/2007/10/data-tables-and-cascading-style-sheets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Davey)