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Archive: 2006 November
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Basic CSS: Inline, Embedded, External: What’s The Difference?
The cascade respects three kinds of styling implementation. What are they, and how do they differ?
What came before: In the previous exploration, we attempted to explain what the “cascading” in CSS meant, and why it was important to be aware of it. This time, we’ll explore the three main types of web page style sheet implementation; inline styles, embedded, and external.
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In the USA’s tempestuous modern political landscape, the “gerrymander” has raised its quizzical head
In the ongoing war of words that appears to amount to American politics latterly, we’ve heard much of the “gerrymander”. A most unique beast, it is a creation of man, a friend to those in power, and the enemy of those out of power.
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Adobe Releases kuler, A Web Application For Building Color Themes
kuler allows designers to build groups of colors quickly and easily, and it’s web-based.
Today Adobe introduced a technology preview of kuler, a Web-hosted application that allows users to quickly create and share harmonious color themes over the Web. I first heard about it from Adobe’s PR team yesterday, and John Nack has written a bit about it on his blog here.
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Basic CSS: The Cascade, And Why Go External?
What put the “cascade” in the CSS?
In our beginning steps as web design gods we’ve begun to see that CSS is a wise and good way to create rock-solid styling that is easy to update and separates style from content. Stating the obvious: having external CSS keeps our HTML as simple as we can, and the benefits of having one CSS file to tweak instead of style tags in sprawling markup should be self-evident (just look at the CSS Zen Garden if you haven’t already done so. One HTML file; a legion of CSS, switchable with a click. Who wouldn’t want such power?).
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The November 2006 CSS Reboot Has Happened
Standards-compliant “Rebooters” are up for vote
Just what is the CSS Reboot? From the event’s own homepage:
Every November 1st and May 1st at 18:00 GMT, Rebooters from all over the world launch their standards based website redesigns simultaneously; bringing traffic, interest and a little respect to their sites. There are no prizes or arbitrary winners, just great exposure and the knowledge that we all participated in something great.
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Acrobat 8 News: INTERVIEW With Lonn Lorenz, Acrobat 8 Product Manager
On Tuesday, November 7 I had the opportunity to discuss the new Acrobat 8 with Lonn Lorenz, Acrobat 8 Product Manager at Adobe Systems.
By the time I talked with Lonn Lorenz, I had already had some experience with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional through working with the beta and now the gold master versions. It’s a different beast than Acrobat 7 in several respects (see my upcoming review to learn more), and these are what I keyed in on in my questions with Mr. Lorenz. Here’s some key details I learned:
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Master Typographer Frutiger Honored by SoTA
Major Typophile group honors decades of historic work
At an event on 1 November 2006 the Society of Typographic Aficionados, commonly known as SoTA, awarded type master Adrian Frutiger its prestigious 2006 Typography Award, reports Linotype:
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His Gain Is Our Loss
For the past year and a half, Paul Heersink (AKA “CCAer”) has run Cartography, a blog by and but not just for the Canadian Cartographic Association.
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Free electronic PD maps now much easier to find
Not widely heralded except on a few blogs, the Libre Map Project has opened its doors on the ‘Web.
It’s premise is simple and simply stated:
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Finding the Right Visuals and Graphics for a Design
Have you ever opened a magazine, read an article and wondered, “How did the designer think of THAT design element?”
This is a question I have asked myself so many times that I lost count. Then I again I haven’t been counting. As a designer you need to know how to visually communicate a message, that’s the essence of your job. Yet sometimes you see an article about cows and you see a bell or a stylized face of a cow used as a bullet. Or you are doing a car catalogue and you notice that the page numbers have the same elements of the logo of the car. Sometimes you manage to think at those things in a snap, while other times you just have a design block. What do you do in that situation?
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Color Explosion: Sony Blows Up 18,492 Gallons of Paint to Promote New Television
Ever wanted to do something big–really big–with color?
Sony did. Two apartment buildings, one playground, 35 miles of copper wire, 1,472 explosives, and 18,492 gallons of paint.
Sony’s complete requirements for the 30-second spot: 70,000 litres (~18,492 gallons) of paint, 358 single bottle bombs, 33 sextuple air cluster bombs, 22 Triple hung cluster bombs, 268 mortars, 33 Triple Mortars, 22 Double mortars, 358 meters (~1,175 feet) of weld, 330 meters (~1,083 feet) of steel pipe, 57 km (~35 miles) of copper wire. They forgot to mention one clown.
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Book Start With A Scan
This “oldie but goodie” book—it was published in 1996—helps us designers see line art and scanned graphics in a whole new way.
Start with a Scan has been around for ten years now, and I just came across this fine book this year. It’s currently in its second edition but what I found was the first edition, circa 1996—back when scanners were not at every designer’s desk (due to their $500 minimum pricetag) and a thing called the World Wide Web was a novelty to be found in the last pages of any book on graphics. Of course, now things are a teensy bit different—but even with the first edition, Start with a Scan offers some eye-opening tricks with scanned art.
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Function Comes First
Open the doors to real communication
I was traveling to work by train, as usual. I guess I am not in the best of moods when I am still fresh from bed, but I was getting really irritated by the doors between compartments. I don’t know how many times I have had to help elderly people get through them because those doors are really heavy. Surely the person who designed them was thinking of a way to make sure the doors closed themselves without mechanisms that could wear off. Impeccable logic if it wasn’t for the fact that people can’t even open them. Yet there are several trains like that.
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Adobe Announces Availability of Acrobat Professional 8
The latest version of Adobe Acrobat is becoming available with the release of Acrobat Professional 8.
The latest news out of Adobe Systems is the availability of Acrobat Professional, version 8:
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Comic Sans, Curlz, Algerian…we sure do love to hate ‘em. Sometimes it seems a bit surly…
The love of type is a insidious and eventually demanding master.
It draws you in, little by little. One day you’re liking Gill Sans, then you’re looking up exactly what they call those little hooks, crooks, and tick marks around some of the letters, and the next thing you know you’re slotting a copy of Bringhurst on the shelf.
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