Archive for 'Design'

The Email Standards Project

November 29th, 2007 – 8:40 am

Many years ago the Web Standards Project (or WASP) fought the fine fight to pressure browser manufacturers into complying with some sort of standard version of HTML. Prior to that we almost had to build separate sites for Netscape and Internet Explorer - it was horrible.
We have come so far with browsers, but unfortunately most […]

Cheat Sheet Collection

May 10th, 2006 – 9:00 pm
Tagged as: Coding, Design

This is a great little resource - Pete Freitag has put together links for a bunch for cheat sheets. And lets face it - these things always come in handy.
Time to start downloading and printing! ;)

The Yellow Fade Technique (YFT)

March 9th, 2006 – 8:27 am
Tagged as: Coding, Design

Some time ago 37 Signals pioneered what they call the Yellow Fade Technique, or YFT. You might have seen it on Basecamp or Backpack.
Jamie asked me the other day if I knew how it was done. I had seen a tutorial for it before, but hadn’t bookmarked or blogged it! So after a few minutes […]