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A New Decade Of Design

It will be interesting to see how design, particularly website design, evolves over the next ten years. Couple of hopes/requests/wishlist items: Get CMS systems to play nicely with custom databases & custom applications Figure out way of unifying user login/accounts across multiple website applications Clean URLs system for customs sites…

Todd DumasJanuary 4, 2010

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A brief list of major web design obstacles facing today’s designers

There are no great solutions to any of these problems/limitations yet, just a series of hacks and work arounds ... CSS issues Multi-column layouts in CSS Vertically-centered content in CSS Active Links tag Cross-browser compatibility issues Rounded corners Embedded fonts Rotated text PNG image files CSS Vertical Collapsing Margins Table…

Todd DumasFebruary 4, 2009

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And a brief(er) list of uber helpful tools

From Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - awesome package InContext CMS - great way to upgrade static sites to allow for basics client CMS Spry Datasets - fast way to create a mini-database. tragically, not readable by search engines Flash FLV player - quickly stream most media From others Wordpress - fast, simple, powerful…

Todd DumasFebruary 4, 2009

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CSS vs. Table Layouts – A hybrid solution

As most web designers know, there is a debate raging over the use of HTML Tables (ie. table, tr, td, etc.) in the construction of web page layouts. The main issue is that CSS offers no simple (and supported) solution for the creation of basic, vertically flexible, columns. In fact,…

Todd DumasJanuary 2, 2009

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A New Decade Of Design

A brief list of major web design obstacles facing today’s designers

And a brief(er) list of uber helpful tools

CSS vs. Table Layouts – A hybrid solution

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