Dave, Jonathan Longnecker, Nate Croft and I talk shop. Topics include website building apps, where to start designing, when not to design for modern browsers, and more...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: article, CSS, Design, direct-link

What do you think folks? Is a new language going to come along in the next ten years that deals with layout / style / design and unseat CSS...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: article, CSS, css tricks, Design, poll

Star ratings are one of those classic UX patterns that everyone has tinkered with at one time or another. I had an idea get the UX part of it done with very little code and no JavaScript...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: actual-usage, calculator, CSS, ratings

A very serious not at all tongue-in-cheek gallery of CSS3 techniques that poo-poos the fancy in favor of the practical. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Real-World CSS is a post from CSS-Tricks ...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: browser-support, Firefox, peekaboo, real-world-css

Paul Irish suggests the universal selector (*) to apply border-box box-sizing to every element. I've been wanting to try this forever because this box model is, in my opinion, just better. ...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: CSS, paul-irish

...is now a stable release. It's notable because it's the first release with it's own built in developer tools ( video overview ). ...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: CSS, desktop, download, islands, mozilla-firefox

In this latest poll , I asked people to test their own internet connection speed then vote in the poll based on their result. The speed choices ranged from (what I would consider) blazingly fast, to mediocre, to nearly...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: CSS, nearly-unusably

If your web app doesn't look or work as well as Bootstrap does out of the box, it's time to have a pretty serious discussion with your team about why. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Twitter Bootstrap 2.0...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: bootstrap, built-on-less, from-twitter, growing-library, styleguide-docs

To figure out your grid width percentages for a fluid design, you start with a fixed design and divide the column widths by the container width. Elliot Jay Stocks calls for us to stop the self-torture and use 1000px...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: adam-wilson, Design, Photoshop, Web Design

I've long been convinced icon fonts are awesome , but Drew Wilson's new service (and article I'm linking to). Think they use unsemnatic markup? ...

Author: Kubrick

Category: CSS

Tags: article, CSS, css tricks, pictos-server