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I had only just recently decided to leave the game industry and return to the web when A List Apart published Ethan Marcotte’s pivotal article, “Responsive Web Design”. Since Ethan is a close friend, I assumed and continue to assume that his landmark discovery was specifically timed to validate my decision with firm authority. This was very, very exciting stuff.

This site is my first full-scale attempt at responsive design. It uses one template for… See more →

Can one of you CSS geniuses remind me why definition lists won’t take list-style declarations?

Irony: The more semantic of the two solutions to my HTML problem involves a somewhat complicated table.

Torn between design solutions. A: Acceptably pragmatic HTML and easy CSS. B: Complete pedantry. Granular, semantic HTML and nightmarish CSS.

Just finished @adactio's forthcoming HTML5 for Web Designers from @abookapart. Unsurprisingly, it is excellent. books.alistapart.com

Planning for every foreseeable permutation of a nested list makes for some tongue-twisting CSS.

Thanks all for the JavaScript suggestions. One of these should do what I need.

Looking for some quick and dirty plug-and-play JavaScript to simply swap out the contents of a div. Suggestions?

Typing out escape sequences for apostrophes as you write will make you hyper-aware of how many contractions you use.

A brief history of type

Like all the arts, [typography] is basically immune to progress, though it is not immune to change. —Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

The art of typography has a rich and storied tradition, and like most art forms, its production processes have moved at a snail’s pace. After Gutenberg’s landmark invention of movable type (a printing method consisting of individual letters carved out of metal) in the fifteenth century, the… See more →

As the spread of web standards reaches exponential levels, there has been much reflection on just how far the web has come, and how much our individual perceptions of it have changed since we were first introduced to it. To look at the first web site I ever made compared with the work I’m doing now makes me wonder if there isn’t something to the notion of “progress” after all. Here is the story of… See more →