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Már ÖrlygssonCSS Links (Starring Douglas Bowman)
Remember Douglas Bowman of Wired.com-redesign fame? Not only is he a great graphic designer, but he's also one of the big CSS Godstalents (along with Eric Mayer and others) - and thus a big professional inspiration to me.
He has just launced a newly - and may I add beautifully - redesigned website for usability consulting company Adaptive Path. On his personal website, Douglas gives a short explanation of the redesign and the key benefits it brings to Adaptive Path. Great read and some informative comments by his readers.
Also on Douglas' website: the article/tutorial Using [CSS] Background-Image to Replace Text (method dubbed as Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) by Zeldman) and a followup in three consecutive weblog entries (1, 2, 3) where he inspects potential problems with the method in screen readers used by blind users. His conclusion: Jaws 4.5 is fine with the technique, but he seems to forget that seeing users who can't load the images, don't see any text when the background image dissappears.
I've already subscribed to Douglas' RSS feed. Yum!
P.S.
Check out the CSS Zen Garden for examples of a slightly ott use of the FIR method, and some great demonstration of the awsome potential of table-less HTML and CSS.
More like this: English Entries, HTML/CSS.
Reader Comments (7)
Jósi replies:
Yes, CSS is cool. You should try it sometime.
July 10. 2003 kl. 09:02 GMT | #
Már Örlygsson replies:
I would come back at you with a snappy answer if I wasn't too busy writing clean tableless HTML and CSS for professional clients - today and every day for the past 9 months or so.
This is my personal website (as in "hobby"). So far I've "only" managed to make every page validate as XHTML 1.0, the pages are very accessible and written with a clean semantically meaningful HTML markup, my RSS files are non-funky and very valid, and I've also managed to squeeze in some time to write quality content - including topics such as HTML, CSS and Movable Type hacking. Check it out.
...and I do use CSS for this site. It's just very minimal. For me that's a zen-like theraputic cleansing of sorts.
July 10. 2003 kl. 11:06 GMT | #
JBJ replies:
Hvađ meina menn međ ađ ekki sé hćgt ađ gera grćna vefi fyrr en ţessi kom til sögunnar!
Worldfootball.org rúllar grćnu upp! :p
July 10. 2003 kl. 11:39 GMT | #
Már Örlygsson replies:
JBJ, in English please? :-)
July 10. 2003 kl. 11:46 GMT | #
Jósi replies:
Hey, your page is great! The content is truly second to none (although the layout is a little dull for my taste ;-). You remind me of the old cliché that auto mechanics always drive cars that run terribly, but are going to be great "just as soon as I tune the engine..." ;-)
July 10. 2003 kl. 12:02 GMT | #
Andri Sigurđsson replies:
Nice and clean site ! The image swap thing on the team page seems extra interesting ... and it's just a great site for what it is, the only thing bothering me, from a design point of view, is how sites like these always have obvious marks of being standards-compliant. They all have a similar kind of feel to them. But I guess something has to be sacrificed :-)
July 10. 2003 kl. 12:19 GMT | #
Már Örlygsson replies:
There are always certain sets of aesthetics that form based on the built-in limitations of the medium.
If you look closely you'll find the same thing happening in book design, posters, movies, etc. etc. It's just that we've learned to take these old media for granted so we don't notice the "sameness" as much as we do in new media where the aesthetics are forming right in front of our eyes.
But, yes, your're absolutely right.
P.S. Jósi, you're spot on with your "car-mechanics always drive crappy cars" analogy. Touché! :-)
July 10. 2003 kl. 12:39 GMT | #