The first part of WE05 was the Jeffrey Veen workshop Designing the Next Generation of Web Applications. At first I was worried with terms like web application, AJAX, APIs etc. being bandied about that this workshop was going to be technical, and from talking to my to other attendees they had the same concerns.
Was it worthwhile …… Yes
Time to go pack for Web Essentials 2005 if you are there and see a guy with his right arm in a sling and a couple of facial piercings come over and say hi, that is me. [.......]
I should of been more more specific in my About em commentary that 1 em = 16 pixels as long as you are using a modern browser and have not changed the default font size.
So I did more experimenting with ems and different fonts
I n order to learn more about WordPress and to try and limit my experimentations on the live server, I decided to run a duplicate copy of this blog on my PowerBook.
Everything was fairly easy, except Permalinks not working, it had to do with mod_write module on my Apache server
This is the first in a series of articles on what most people refer to as elastic
layouts, though I prefer the term proportional layouts.
What is a em?
Mark Boulton has written a number of good articles on designing with the grid system
Today’s article was the one I was most looking forward to flexible grids unfortunately the example was a mix of fluid and elastic web design and it fell down at some font sizes. (Some of it to do with Mozilla and how it calculates sizes). So I created a true elastic version which much like this blog, varies the font size depending on browser width, to create a page that fills the browser.
Why do I blog?
Well it is all Tommy Olsson’s fault.
I read a dozen or more blogs on web standards, CSS, XHTML etc on a daily basis, and ….