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Understanding Web Design: Jeffrey Zeldman Video

Rick Tuttle — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:12:05 +0000

Here’s an interesting video of Jeffrey Zeldman explaining web design.

Zeldman is the cult hero of web standards zealots and advocates the valid use of XHTML, CSS, Javascript and other web technologies.Â I have benefited from reading his Designing with Web Standards books.

And, yes, you can just use his last name and people will know who you mean.

Smashing Magazine’s 50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools

Rick Tuttle — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:22:40 +0000

I found this list of useful CSS tools on Smashing Magazine where there are lots of resources for web developers and designers.

Tiled Backgrounds for Web Sites

Rick Tuttle — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:31:43 +0000

Anyone remember the early days of the Web when everybody used Netscape Navigator and you have to get this Winsock.dll working? Well, one of the early features that Netscape and later IE added to the browser was the ability to use a tiled image for your background.

Of course, back then you had engineers building web sites instead of designers who were still heavy focused on print media. We ended up really “cool” sites with clouds and water drops for backgrounds.

Thankfully more artistic designers have come up with some more elegant tiled backgrounds (and some artistic but not so elegant). Here are a few resource links that I have used to find tiled backgrounds.

Enjoy and don’t get too dizzy looking at all those patterns.