Category: Design

The “skip navigation” link has become nearly ubiquitous in standards-based web design, due largely to Zeldman’s teachings (see pg. 200… you have the book, right?). In a nutshell, it’s simply a link to an ID’d element or named anchor on the current page that allows a visitor to jump right to the meat, bypassing whatever… Continue reading Accessibly Hiding Skip Links

I’m now running WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn, which is leaps and bounds cooler than 1.2 (Mingus), which was already pretty damn cool. I won’t go into detailed coverage of all the new features because others have already covered that subject. I will, however, mention my two favorites: Pages and Themes. WP1.5 allows for the easy creation… Continue reading Upgrade Post-mortem

Dave Shea has written an excellent introduction to CMYK, mainly aimed at web designers used to creating for the RGB screen. It’s a handy overview of the CMYK color model and why your work doesn’t look the same on paper as it does on the monitor. Dave’s article offers some rules of thumb to follow… Continue reading Pixel, Meet Dot