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PX to EM conversion made simple.

Taking a page out of Apple’s book, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based email service “twice as fast.” Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it fails to run some Gmail features.

Jquery Slideshow Plugin. Easily create a custom carousel including many different transition & easing options.

A set of methods that provide an inline, customizable way to show JavaScript alerts, confirmations, and prompts.

Simply put, usability is making your website easy for your visitors to find the information they need when they need it.

This tool can significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names.

Yahoo! makes a lot of structured data available to developers, primarily through its web services. These services require developers to locate the right URLs and documentation to access and query them which can result in a very fragmented experience.

Online grid builder

The plugin’s functionality is so simple because it’s designed to do only one thing: set all elements you specify to the same height.

Are you looking for some useful tips to improve the look and features of your standard HTML FORM elements?

background-image + background-repeat + background-position + 24-bit PNGs for Internet Explorer 6 (…Better late than never!)

Hyphenation increases the visual appeal of your web site. When jus ti fy ing text with out hyphen ation, word spac ing is dis tract ingly large. With left-​aligned text, the right edge will be unnec es sar ily ragged.

Emastic beta 3 comes with some structural improvements percent-grid.css and absolute-grid.css. These components will give even more flexibility, elasticity and absolute positioning. Also semantic.css to improve the naming convention and code organization.

Via CSSGlobe

So what does it mean to prototype with XHTML? Essentially, it’s the process of using the XHTML itself, and related technologies, to evolve and define your design solution. And what does an XHTML prototype look like?

Revisit the original creative brief, just because your designing something you like - doesn’t mean the client will like it. You have to look at the age group and demographic target your trying to reach, all these things are very important and you should take extra steps to not lose site of this.

Now, Microsoft, who’ve been doing some interesting microformats related things with hSlices have released some excellent microformats oriented tools and more.

Via: microformatique

Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site’s graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally.

In this guest article, Jacen Nicely goes through the first hand personal experiences of becoming a freelance designer detailing the emotions and the three phases of the process (research, planning and implementation) of going from frustrated to a full time freelancer. This article is applicable to all freelancers, not just designers.

For Indonesian Freelancer’s, check this out!

Perhaps you’re feeling slightly uncomfortable about the example we’ve just seen—after all, haven’t web standards advocates like myself been insisting for years that you shouldn’t be using tables for layout?

You may download and use this theme completely free of charge. Just spread the word and be sure you make it out to the polls on election day.

When writing documents, it is often useful to number sections and have a table of contents. You can number these by hand, directly in the markup, but this can be time consuming if the order changes and you have to edit all the numbers

No matter how many EM’s or percentages we use in our design, we are still locked down with pixels for images and screen sizes. For how much longer?

CleverCSS is a small markup language for CSS inspired by Python that can be used to build a style sheet in a clean and structured way. In many ways it’s cleaner and more powerful than CSS2 is.

Our hope is to provide an overview of many of the finer aspects of accessibility that are often misunderstood and misapplied in hopes that they can be properly implemented in the future.

Pattern Tap is here to satisfy and encourage the inspiration needs of my interface design peers and peeps. We aspire to be the one stop pattern shop for your next inspiration need.