To Carousal or Not

In an effort to squeeze more content on web pages, designers sometimes turn to novel navigation features such as carousels that advance or rotate objects in a fixed space. These are great for displaying related products or showing facets of the same product, such as pants presented in different colors or with different tailoring options (cuffed or not, straight vs. relaxed cut, etc.). Some carousels are relatively simple slide-show-like implementations,...

Some IE CSS Tips for Transparency, min-max width and Conditional Comments

For ThanksGiving, I am offering 5 exclusive website templates for just $3.99. Purchase Here. You can force IE to apply transparency to PNGs. In theory, PNG files do support varied levels of transparency; however, an Internet Explorer 6 bug prevents this from working cross-browser. 1. #regular_logo 2. { 3. background:url('test.png'); width:150px; height:55px; 4. } 5. /* \ */ 6. * html #regular_logo 7. { 8. background:none; 9. float:left; 10. width:150px; filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='test. png',...

The Dys-Functional Specifications

If you are a HTML5/CSS/jQuery Web Developer, here's a ThanksGiving Offer So what's functional about a Functional Spec? These blueprint docs usually wind up having almost nothing to do with the finished product. Here's why: Functional specs are fantasies They don't reflect reality. An app is not real until builders are building it, designers are designing it, and people are using it. Functional specs are just words on paper. Functional specs...