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Hello fellow designer/developers!
So I have just been updating my HTML5 template and I have been trying to incorporate all the latest tips and tricks but in the end settled on combining HTML5Boilerplate with Grid960.
One big change to the HTML5Boilerplate is the use of Normalizer.css - This is a little weird for me because I am used to seeing the classic resets floating around the net.
Has anyone used the new Boilerplate?
What do you think of it?
What do you think of Normalizer.css!?
I kind of like its simplicity and so far I have not had any issues with using it. My basic mockup seems to work fine in all browsers I have loaded on my laptop.
Anyway I would really like to get some feedback on this just to get a glimpse of what others are doing with it and whether they like it or not.
I guess considering HTML5Boilerplate is so popular Normalizer.css will become the next "classic HTML5 reset" for most of us.
Looking forward to some replies!
Richard
I have tried 2.0 out on a few sites and quite frankly, I never even thought about it. I think that might be the goal - a sensible accross-the-board starting point from which you build your design. For me, the big plus with the HTML5boilerplate is the aggregation of best practices. Depending on client sensitivity, the window opening to download chrome frame for IE6 users might be a little heavy, but I certainly understand and applaud that worthy goal (and I hope the same applies to IE 7 & 8 - see Paul Irish's recent post on our Future IE Hell to Come)
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Has anyone seen or produced a step by step Meteor.js guide?
I'm not too familiar with Javascript but I know HTML and CSS and I'm curious how to get started messing around with Meteor.js, see how it works and what I can make with it.
I'm not sure how to edit the code thats found in the examples so I thought maybe I should ask here and see if there is any helpful links that you all could point me too.
Meteor is still pretty new at the moment. There is no official guide, except the screencast wich is more like a demo.
You still can browse the source code, but without understanding javascript enough, you will have to wait a little bit.
Meteor examples are very self explanatory, if you still want to get in now, read the code and try to understand by your self.
Thomas Lomas has just made an great tutorial screencast: http://vimeo.com/40300075
The meteor examples are very self explanatory to anyone a bit familiar with JavaScript and node.js, so you should start learning that first. A good place to start is http://www.nodebeginner.org/
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Does anyone know a good place to learn css? When I say css I do not mean how rules are matched . The w3school tutorials do a good job showing how changing certain properties effect a single element, but it doesn't show you how to bring all these skills together to build something bigger. Thanks
There is some genious technology called "learning by doing". I would really recommend you to do this ;-)
Think of something somebody could need and build a website. There are plenty of websites which provide you with material:
http://www.cssbasics.com/
http://blog.jm3.net/2007/03/16/the-only-ten-things-to-know-about-css/
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/
AND last but not least NEVER ever refer to w3school.com because of http://w3fools.com/
I'd first like to point out that w3schools, although a good place to start, should ultimately be abandoned once you feel the need to explore further.
A great resource for CSS is MDN's (Mozilla Developer Network) here.
There is also a list of separate tutorials here.
The best place to learn CSS is Google. Seriously, if you want to build something bigger, you bring little things together and make something bigger out of them. By trial and error as well as researching on Google for some certain features, you can learn CSS and build something bigger.
Andy Clarke has written my two favorite books on CSS and web design at large. I recommend his latest - Hard Boiled Web Design:
http://www.hardboiledwebdesign.com/
I find that Mozilla Developer Network has the best documentation for most web technologies, as seen here
Anyways, here's their CSS tutorial
Best idea is to get some template from web and try to remake it - trying to change sth bigger gives you better overview of whole thing. Than You can try to make sth yourself from scratch.
I think www.codepupil.com plans to offer CSS lessons in the future.
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I've been using Paint.NET to create mockups for my web application. They're pretty, and it's not hard to save the constituent graphical elements. However, the process of getting my layout into CSS is completely manual and time-consuming.
I'm aware there are better tools out there for this. Should I be looking at DreamWeaver? I'm not looking for any auto-generated web or data access functionality, and I'm happy to code all the behavior myself. I'm mostly looking for a great-looking layout editor that understands both layered imaging and CSS. (Preferably, one that can map a layered image to HTML and generate initial CSS with the right styling.)
Thanks in advance for any and all insight!
Jeff
A text editor, really.
It's time consuming, yes, but so is doing anything right. I have yet to use any program that builds the design of a website with a level of markup quality that I find even remotely acceptable. Where you may give a div a class of userInfo, most layout programs might give that div a class of style12 or something equally unhelpful. This results in unmaintainable markup, which is especially hard to build into a web application.
So learn how to do it by hand, and then do it by hand.
Axuer can be used to take mockups/prototypes and export as HTML/CSS: http://www.axure.com/
I only ever used it for prototyping.
There are no apps that will make it a css3, they apps that exist will give you a lot of image sprites and css2 and a lot of bugs you have to fix manually :/
So suggest coding it manually or hiring someone who does it(Kinda cheap these days even I would do it if I get paid well enough)
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I've pretty much made my website design compatible across the board, except with IE6 and below. Now I'm sure some would agree that IE 6 has been a problem for a while.
My question is this. It's almost 2012, should I even attempt to satisfy the limitations of IE6?
If my project was in any other genre than what it is, I wouldn't think twice about worrying about it. I noticed other programmers and designers just ignoring it completely when constructing their websites. The thing is, my project is a social networking site, similar to Facebook/Youtube/Twitter.
I'd like to know an estimated number of how many people still use that terrible browser if anyone has a source, and do you think that market would even be interested in social networking?
If you look at the browser stats you can see that ie6 is a very small percentage of browsers. link
I'd personally not support it and redirect or show a splash screen informing the user that their browser is not supported.
Have a look at this for browser popularity. The link to "Browser Explorer" at the top left shows you the stats for the different versions of Explorer. As of October, 2011, IE 6 is at 1.3%.
Unless your web site is specifically targeting corporate users (which it sounds like it isn't) where some companies still force IE 6 to be used, I'd say it's safe to ignore it.
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I am looking for an open source blog system..
I would like to find something with a single sign on (with existing application), multiple sites, rss feed and all be hosted from the same location.
Don't need too much crazy functionality.. but standard I guess. As far as hacking it up, the less learning curve the better. I have a hard time getting into the nitty gritty of wordpress..
I would like to fetch all the blogs from other sites via an xml/rss/JSON request.. and handle and process the information myself..
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Wordpress along with WPMU or Buddypress is quite good and easy to learn. Can't imagine anything being any easier to learn with the type of functionality you require.
Best part is that due to all the free plugins available it will be easier for you to modify wordpress according to your requirements.
Give wordpress another try, I'm sure you'll love it once you get the hang of it.
All the best!
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