Sites By Robin

08/05/2010

CSS3 Goodness! What's that?? As a client, you should care ... ask your web designer/developer to incorporate what's appropriate into your web project. It can be done now. Here's a link that allows the designer to add a gradient by writing code (that soft and shadowy background graphic behind a website content area).

The CSS3 Webkit Gradient Generator is a showcase for the power of CSS webkit gradients. It also provides a simple graphical user interface for working with CSS webkit gradients, allowing a user preview real time what their gradient will look like and provide the code for the gradient they generated.

08/05/2010

Font Squirrel. Customized fonts for your website.

Font Squirrel scours the internet in search of FREE, highest-quality, designer-friendly, commercial-use fonts and presents them for easy downloading. We dont have the most, but we do have the best.

08/05/2010

POSH. Geeky acronym for Plain Old Semantic HTML. Staying current, making sure it's valid, and that it's applied correctly to a client's website. Takes time, it's worth it, now more than ever. Why? User agents other than Internet Explorer on the desktop or laptop, such as mobile devices. Thanks, Emily Lewis, for sharing this in your book "Microformats Made Simple."

04/30/2010

So many website projects lack a web management and maintenance plan. Without current, interesting, and engaging content, why have a website? Here's a great resource link with more info. I love their stuff.

We specialize in Web Operations Management which provides a systematic, holistic approach for building and operating Web sites and Web organizations, from strategy and decision-making, to ex*****on and measuring success.

04/30/2010

Get your IP and access some great web developer resources, including compatibility checklists for CSS3 and html5 (pertaining to your browser). Thanks for the info, Fresno State colleague!!!

FindMeByIP.com, What's my IP address? How good is my browser? What can it do?

04/28/2010

Recommended reading: Developing With Web Standards by John Alsopp. Explains the nuts and bolts of current best practices, and reviews CSS3 and HTML5. We must begin adopting portions of this markup in our projects!

A companion to Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards, this book approaches standards from a more tactical and instructional point of view. Today's web designers and developers need to update their skills and knowledge and get away from out-of-date table and font-based approaches. In Develop...