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A Dao of Web Design

A Dao of Web Design
What Zen was to the 70’s (most famously with motorcycle maintenance), the Tao Te Ching was to the 90’s. From Piglet and Pooh to Physics and back, many have sought sense in applying the Tao Te Ching to something (the Tao of Physics), or something to the Tao Te Ching (the Tao of Pooh). It can be a cheap trick, but lately it has struck me that there is more than a little to be understood about web design by looking through the prism of the Tao. Article Continues Below Daoism is a philosophy, like Buddhism, a way of living, of being in the world, which stems from a text of great antiquity, the Tao Te Ching, whose 81 “chapters” enigmatically sweep across human experience, but with a strong common theme, that of harmony. For the last couple of years, for better or worse, my life has revolved more than a little around style sheets. What I sense is a real tension between the web as we know it, and the web as it would be. Same old new medium? Controlling web pages#section2 [The Sage] The Way#section5

Marquee element An example of an HTML marquee displaying the text "Wikipedia" Usability problems[edit] Marquee can be distracting.[1] The human eye is attracted to movement,[2] and marquee text is constantly moving. As with the blink element, because the marquee tagged images or text are not always completely visible, it can make printing such webpages to a paper hard-copy an impossible and inefficient task where the specific printed pages where the messages on screen scroll or blink have to be printed multiple times to capture all the pieces of text that could be displayed at any one given moment in time. Because marquee text moves, links within it are more difficult to click than those in static text, depending on the speed and length of the scrolling. Users only get one chance every time it scrolls past. Attributes[edit] Unlike its blinking counterpart, the marquee element has several attributes that can be used to control and adjust the appearance of the marquee. Align Behavior Bgcolor Direction Width Loop

Subtraction.com molly.com html5shiv - HTML5 IE enabling script Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses Full original, uncompressed source available here: Source code adds new HTML5 elements (which is simple code), but also supports printing HTML5 elements and includes the default styles for HTML5 elements, like block on article and section. Getting it to work in the browser was easy, @jon_neal and afarkas made IE actually print HTML5 elements - these guys are to take all the credit. Please take a moment to thank them! To use this script, download the html5shiv and roll it in to your own code (ideally minified). Common question: what's the difference between the html5shim and the html5shiv?

13 Graphic Design Blogs to Follow in 2013 Whether you’ve dreamt of becoming a successful graphic designer your whole life or you simply enjoy perusing through delightful designs, graphic design blogs are a great source of education, conversation and inspiration. Some blogs are administered by industry pros who are eager to share their knowledge and experience with others. Some serve as a meeting place for design enthusiasts to interact and gather feedback from each other. Others exist for the sole purpose of exposing the work of designers to inspire others. So for designers of all experience levels, we compiled a list of 13 graphic design blogs you can’t afford to ignore this year. 1. Why follow? While its name may be a bit complicated, its mission is simple: To be an open channel to the design community, encouraging feedback from its followers. You can also follow Adbuzeedo on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. 2. This blog aims to provide its followers with a daily dose of design tips and inspiration. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Designing CSS Layouts With Flexbox Is As Easy As Pie Advertisement This article is an updated excerpt of the chapter “Restyle, Recode, Reimagine With CSS3″ from our Smashing Book #3, written by Lea Verou and David Storey. — Ed. Flexible box layout (or flexbox) is a new box model optimized for UI layout. As one of the first CSS modules designed for actual layout (floats were really meant mostly for things such as wrapping text around images), it makes a lot of tasks much easier, or even possible at all. Flexbox has lived a storied existence. There are, however, some caveats. When you specify that an element will use the flexbox model, its children are laid out along either the horizontal or vertical axis, depending on the direction specified. Example: Horizontal And Vertical Centering (Or The Holy Grail Of Web Design) <! Nothing special here, not even a wrapper div. I’ve included all of the different prefixed versions in the CSS above, from the very oldest, which is still needed, to the modern and hopefully final syntax. Enabling Flexbox (al)

When Editors Design: Controlling Presentation In Structured Content Advertisement Thanks to the skyrocketing popularity of mobile devices, a new generation of designers and CMS developers has found the religion of Structured Content. Once the domain of semantic markup purists and information architects, structured content models are at the heart of most multi-channel and multi-device Web projects. At Lullabot, we often work with media, publishing and enterprise clients. This challenging requirement — providing editors and writers with more control over the presentation of their content — is where many well-intentioned content models break down. The Easy (But Problematic) Answers Sadly, a common response in projects on a deadline is to give up on well-structured, reusable content. To avoid that chaos, some teams go to the opposite extreme. Both of these extremes can make cross-channel reuse more difficult because they all treat design-dependent information as an integral part of the content. Principles That Work Use Grouping and Priority, Not Manual Layout

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