Elphin » Web Design http://www.elphin.com Making fine software since 1998 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:28:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Silk icons for web apps http://www.elphin.com/2007/10/silk-icons-for-web-apps/ http://www.elphin.com/2007/10/silk-icons-for-web-apps/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:18:43 +0000 admin http://blog.dixo.net/2007/10/10/silk-icons-for-web-apps/ IconsThe free Silk icon set from famfamfam.com is very useful for giving even the most mundane of web pages a little polish. With over 700 icons you’d think you’d have one for every occasion, right? Wrong! Or so says Damien Guard, who is releasing a companion set of 400+ icons in the same style as the original.

Nice work, will look forward to seeing them!

(20th Nov 2007: the new icon set is now available!)

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The browser wars are back. But this time round, everybody wins!

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CSS Zen Garden inspired me to try and do a better job of CSS and semantic markup, I’m hoping to find enough time to make Geograph a whole lot better in that area too. One thing David’s article mentions is the difficulty of testing, but I find the BrowserCam service invaluable. Not only can it take screen captures of a page on many different OS/browser combinations, you can also remotely access some systems via VNC to play with your site for real. Easier than maintaining your own virtual machines or real test kit!

]]> http://www.elphin.com/2006/04/stop-hacking-css/feed/ 0 The Zen of CSS Design http://www.elphin.com/2006/04/the-zen-of-css-design/ http://www.elphin.com/2006/04/the-zen-of-css-design/#comments Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:05:08 +0000 admin http://blog.dixo.net/2006/04/10/the-zen-of-css-design/ The CSS Zen Garden site is a fantastic demonstration of what CSS can do. A few days ago I found myself with a few hours to kill while waiting for my car to be repaired, and while browsing a bookshop came across a book about the site – The Zen of CSS Design

The book takes a selection of Zen Garden designs from a variety of designers, and walks through the process they took while covering any neat CSS tricks that were pulled off to achieve the end result.

It’s a pleasure to read, with a nice layout and feel to it, and chock full of useful followup links on the techniques demonstrated. Highly recommended!

Yet another of my never-ending side projects for Geograph has been reworking the UI, and I’m hoping to ensure the XHTML has enough “hooks” to enable other designer to easily come up with alternative stylesheets.

Anyway, here’s my current effort so far.

Geograph Design

Web-2.0-a-licious, no?

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