http://www.thetransient.com One designer's web design blog Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:19:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just had a fleeting moment of stress! It began when I decided to Google the title of my most recent blog posting, Test driving Internet Explorer beta 2 developer tools. When the results came back, there were many postings with similar titles (to be expected) but one that stood ... http://www.thetransient.com/the-patterns-of-blog-postings-and-my-own-stressful-moment/165/ I've been playing with the IE8 developer tools and what at first seemed like a promising new UI utility has revealed itself as rather under-whelming and run of the mill. Sure it has typical features such CSS editing and image highlighting, but where's the state of the art, move the ... http://www.thetransient.com/test-driving-internet-explorer-beta-2-developer-tools/160/ Here's a tip to reduce clutter on a page with lots of repeating links, icons and/or elements. Say you have a list of search results on your website and each result has many action icons and links. It isn't necessary to have to links and icons visible at all times. ... http://www.thetransient.com/unclutter-your-website-with-simple-jquery-javascript-show-and-hide/110/ CSS, xHTML and JavaScript can become very complicated, especially when code has had numerous, variously skilled developers working on it. To help understand what is going on in ever-growing code, it helps to understand the smallest details. Today my tip will be on spaces and the absence of said spaces ... http://www.thetransient.com/space-or-no-space-between-css-selectors/119/ Well, it’s been a long time coming. I’ve had thetransient.com domain for nearly a decade now and it’s served me well. I haven’t done it any favors, however, by letting it stagnate as the web grows by leaps and bounds all around it. By launching this blog, not only will ... http://www.thetransient.com/new-life-breathes-in-thetransient-once-again/54/