Wednesday 24th November
CSS Crib Sheet
Dave Shea (the cultivator of the CSS Zen Garden) has created a CSS quick reference sheet that helps make the design process easier and prevents you from having to bang your head against the computer screen when you encounter one of the many quirky layout issues.
Thursday 20th November
Fireworks MX 2004 Updater
Macromedia releases an updater, point release which resolves a number of issues that were identified in Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004.
Thursday 13th November
To Hack or not to Hack
Read the Peter-Paul Koch article on why using endlessly complicated hacks may endanger our beloved CSS.
Wednesday 12th November
Flash MX 2004 Updates
Macromedia announces Updater for Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004 Professional
According to the Dreamweaver TechNote "Dreamweaver MX 2004 emerging issues" Macromedia is also working on an updater for Dreamweaver MX 2004
Friday 31st October
HTML vs XHTML
Recently the WaSP (Web Standards Project) asked the W3C which markup language is better. Take a look at what the W3C had to say.
Other News
- QuirksMode is launched. QuirksMode is an excellent learning resource for CSS, JavaScript and the DOM (Document Object Model)
- Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II, by Douglas Bowman is now available
Wednesday 29th October
The House that CSS built
Want to see just how are you can push CSS design? Then take a look at design detector's House which uses nothing more than stylesheets and borders without a single image.
Other News
A List Apart is back. At last ALA is back with three excellent articles by some of ALA's best writers
- Facts and Opinion About FIR - Joe Clark
- Sliding Doors of CSS - Douglas Bowman
- Random Image Rotation - Dan Benjamin
The article Site Management Features of MX 2004 I wrote for Macromedia's Developers Centre made it into the 17 October issue of Macromedia's The Edge Newsletter.
Thursday 25th September - PM
List-O-Rama
Want to create CSS inline lists? Inspired by Ian Lloyd's List-O-Matic available at accessify.com George Petrov has developed List-O-Rama, a free extension that works with Dreamweaver 4, MX MX 2004 and UltraDev 4.
Thursday 25th September
Understanding CSS Floats
Using the CSS property float as an effective way to layout pages is gaining widespread popularity. But using Float is not without its problems, since as with other CSS positioning techniques Microsoft Internet Explorer tends to do some rather odd things.
Thankfully help is at hand in the form of a series of articles from CommunityMX.com authors John Gallant and Holly Bergevin who steer you through the complexities of using this method of positioning in an easy to understand manner.
- Float: The Theory
- Float: The Bugs (Part One)
- Float: The Bugs (Part Two)
- Float: The Bugs (Part Three)
You can either purchase each piece of content seperately for $2.00 each, take advantage of the free trial period or subscribe to Community MX.
Wednesday 24th September
Making the Absolute, Relative
Ever wondered how one object positioned with CSS affects other positioned objects inside it?Douglas Bowman explains it all »
Tuesday 23rd September
Rounded Corner Tabs
CSS Guru Eric Meyer shows how to create a navigation bar with tabs ».
Other news
News.com switches to CSS-based Layout.
Monday 22nd September
Why Web Standards
Read Jeffery Veen's essay of the Business Value of Web Standards. This short concise overview discusses the benefits of coding sites using web standards such as XHTML and CSS
Other news
Dreamweaver MX 2004 issues
Macromedia releases new tech note to deal with a number of Dreamweaver MX 2004 issues that have emerged since the product was released.
Dreamweaver MX Fundamentals review
Read Joyce Evan's review of my Dreamweaver MX Fundamentals training CD. Joyce is a training veteran with over 10 years of experience and the author of a number of books which includes the Dreamweaver MX Complete Course and the Macromedia Studio MX Bible
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