More tools...

While writing this blog a small library of reusable components based on YUI has been started. The library was namespaced YAHOO.ext (short for Yahoo! UI extensions), and already has a few very useful classes that make day to day development with YUI much easier. All of the classes are well-documented and there are some examples of using them found in the posts on this blog. The code is of course free and has the same unrestrictive (BSD) license as Yahoo! UI.

It's all about tools, baby...

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

A tutorial on using xhtml & css to do a 3 column layout.  Seems to hold together well in IE & FF.

Complex css design for 3 to 4 column layout.  Holds together well in IE and FF and at different font-sizes.  I haven't tested different screen resolutions.

Website Testing: Conquering Cross-browser, Cross-platform Woes

As I was doing final cross-browser testing for a redesign of SKDesigns, my website design business, the design implementation was working quite well in nearly every mainstream browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even the Lynx text-only browser. Unfortunately, though, I found problems with three old or little used browsers, such as Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac that destroyed the CSS-positioned layout. I toiled over how to best handle these browser bugs, especially since my upcoming Web design book—currently in production at my publisher—stresses the importance of usability, readability, and degrading gracefully for older browsers. Today’s post covers part of my decision-making journey and choices of approaches for dealing with these CSS bug-riddled old and little-used browsers.

Interesting site that focuses on control of css layout techniques.  Simple, complete and understandable.  Importantly, looks at how to set up columns that are cross browser compatible, controlable, and can be used to layout the newsite.

Great tips on CSS, AJAX and other Web 2.0 thingies...

24 things refers to 24 things to do that will impress your friends. Things like:

• rounded corners
• ems
• prototype.js
• in-place editing!