indihiang

The Spirit of CSS

Eric — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:19:31 +0000

This is a summary of an article on SiteProNews by Mark Daoust titled “The 10 Best Resources for CSS”. He said that his article was wrote in the spirit of CSS and so is mine. Although many people still using IE, which I can say is not CSS-compliant, but CSS should be and are the future of web designing. No more tables, please. Whether you use WYSIWYG editor such as Frontpage or Dreamweaver, CSS offers many potential such as the separation of presentational stylesheet from the structure which later will prove time and cost saving. And due to the rapid growth of blogs, so do CSS, since most bloggers, like myself, use CSS. It’s only a matter of time (hopefully) before CSS is fully supported by all browsers. And when they do, where will you be? As Mark Daoust said, “If you have not yet jumped on the CSS bandwagon, you may want to consider doing so immediately.” Have an open mind everyone, once you try it you can become addicted to it. In a positive way of course. Believe me, 5 months ago I didn’t even know what CSS is all about but look what I’ve become today. Reading Zeldman’s book and Meyer’s RSS feed everyday, handcoded sheets after sheets after sheets of CSS. I get bored sometimes, make lots of mistakes, but I don’t give up. You should too.

As for the 10 best resources for CSS, chosen by the original author, here it is.

CSSZenGarden

The Web Developer’s Network

Official Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Specification

CSS from the Ground Up

Listamatic

CSSVault

CSS Layout Techniques

Ruthsarian Layouts

PositionIsEverything

StyleGala

State of the Blogosphere

Eric — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:05:56 +0000

There were a series of articles on Technorati Weblog by Dave Sifry. The title, the stories with all the fancy graphics only have one points. They wanted to tell us that blogs and bloggers are achieving a significant amount of attention and influence as shown on part 5. And that blogs are rapidly increasing in numbers. As for me, I just blogged for a few months now but already realize the potential of blogging. And when I see all those popular blogs, I see something in common. They all make a visual stunning design/layout and/or focusing their content on something that is unique. There’s your clue. Now it’s up to you if you want to join the blogosphere. As for Dave Sifry articles, here I give you the links.

State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 5: The A-List and the Long Tail
State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 4: Spam and Fake Blogs
State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 3: Tags
State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 2: Posting Volume
State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth

IE7 fulfills expectations

Eric — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:13:12 +0000

I only manage to use IE until the 6th version. After blogging for nearly 4 months now I have fully used Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6. My impression on IE was that it’s not a good browser. I am guessing that what make it so bad is that it doesn’t support CSS. The CSS I wrote didn’t show or differ from what I had in mind. So when I read Barry Price’s article, I see the title that IE7 fulfills expectations. In a bad way I assume. And I think the word of Barry Price said it all

Disappointed, but hardly surprised. IE’s market share has dropped by maybe 10% overall in the past few years since the emergence of ~~Phoenix~~ ~~Firebird~~ Firefox, but unfortunately I suspect that even given the next apparently bug-ridden release of IE, it’ll still maintain a vast majority share - thus stifling innovation and thwarting the adoption of standards in web development. This is why monopolies are bad folks - good technology suffers, to the benefit of “popular” bad technology…

Coming from a country that filled with many monopoly companies, I must agree with you Barry. Monopolies are bad.