Beyond Paper

Women Would Sacrifice Almost Anything But Chocolate For Blogging

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:13:09 -0400

Women Would Sacrifice Almost Anything But Chocolate For Blogging: Results of a study of women bloggers. Ignore the quasi-sexist title, the study shows useful information about who is blogging and who reads blogs.

line-height: painful

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:19:51 -0400

line-height: painful

Understanding Model-View-Controller

Tue, 06 May 2008 11:06:44 -0400

Understanding Model-View-Controller: A great explanation of MVC architecture.

Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?

Tue, 06 May 2008 11:04:18 -0400

Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?:

A scientific study on the helpfulness of adding alternate stripes of background color to tables.

My take-away from the post? Go ahead and zebra stripe.

Details of button padding in various browsers

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:59:17 -0400

Details of button padding in various browsers: Very useful guide to how different browsers and operating systems apply padding to button.

Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides

Fri, 02 May 2008 11:41:08 -0400

Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides: This post suggests ways to structure your CSS for maximum readability and ease of maintenance.

"Google and the other search engines have started to seriously focus on the issue. In cases where..."

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:54:41 -0400

“Google and the other search engines have started to seriously focus on the issue. In cases where they have good reason to suspect links being bought and sold, both the selling and the buying web sites are usually dropped in rankings or have a penalty which downgrades the ranking. This may mean nothing to the big company that has 1000’s of web sites, but most small companies have one site. To be dropped in the rankings for a domain means, transferring to a new domain, or reworking your links and that can be a long process.”

- Should I buy links to my web site?

RSS in Plain English

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:53:01 -0400

RSS in Plain English

Why You Should Be Lifestreaming

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:47:45 -0400

Why You Should Be Lifestreaming: Lifestreaming, the display of feeds from all of your social networks, is the “latest thing”. This post covers why you should do it.

Add Fill Patterns to Object with PHP

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:17:22 -0400

Add Fill Patterns to Object with PHP

This is the World's Worst PR Pitch

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:30:14 -0400

This is the World's Worst PR Pitch: How NOT to pitch a blogger, or anyone with a website.

Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:27:01 -0400

Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design

5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:29:37 -0400

5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web

Designing Details: Autoscrolling the edit state

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:50:36 -0400

Designing Details: Autoscrolling the edit state : A very short video which describes the care with which 37 Signals takes with their application products to make them extremely user-friendly.

Why Innocent Emails Get Flagged As Spam

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:15:04 -0400

Why Innocent Emails Get Flagged As Spam : The author looks at a real marketing email message from a friend of hers which should have been OK, but was marked as spam. Interesting for people who want to help avoid having their marketing messages go to spam folders.

Design Your Site with WordPress Magazine Themes

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:19:04 -0400

Design Your Site with WordPress Magazine Themes: Have a client that wants a magazine/news site - or has lots of content? These themes may inspire you.

Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:02:08 -0400

Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine: “Web form is often the main communication channel between visitors and site owners. Feedback is always important which is why it’s necessary to make sure that web forms are easy to understand and intuitive to use. Nevertheless, even in form design one can afford some healthy portion of creativity.”

Google's Tips for Moving Your Website

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:56:44 -0400

Google's Tips for Moving Your Website

Email Marketing Trend: Animated Gifs

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:09:30 -0400

Email Marketing Trend: Animated Gifs : Email Marketing Trend: Animated Gifs

Getting Creative With Transparency in Web Design

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:35:19 -0400

Getting Creative With Transparency in Web Design