CSS Selectors: Should You Optimize Them To Perform Better?

by Steven Bradley
on Monday October 3rd, 2011 in CSS

For the last few weeks I’ve been looking at different css selector patterns. One thing I haven’t mention is the efficiency of the selectors, something Chad commented about on the very first post in the series.
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Tips For Setting Up A Baseline Grid

by Steven Bradley
on Thursday September 29th, 2011 in Web Design

When people talk about typographic grids it often revolves around the horizontal and aligning elements to columns of precise widths. The vertical gets slighted at times due to the dynamic heights of web pages.

However, we shouldn’t ignore the vertical. We should set the vertical to a baseline grid.
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How To Use Structural Pseudo Classes and Pseudo Element Selectors

by Steven Bradley
on Monday September 26th, 2011 in CSS

The last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at different types of css selectors. First we looked at the simple and attribute selectors and then we looked at combinators and some pseudo class selectors.
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Thoughts On How Social Networks Impact Search Results

by Steven Bradley
on Thursday September 22nd, 2011 in Social Media

A few weeks ago Nikos asked if I would offer my opinion on social networks and their effect on search results, particularly now that Google+ is on the scene. Who am I to say no?
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How To Use CSS Combinators and Simple Pseudo Class Selectors

by Steven Bradley
on Monday September 19th, 2011 in CSS

Last week we began looking at some of the selectors we have available for hooking css styles into our html. We briefly touched on some simple selectors and mainly focused on attribute selectors.

This week I want to continue and talk specifically about combinators before starting to cover pseudo class selectors.
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A New Flexible Solution To A Responsive Layout Problem

by Steven Bradley
on Thursday September 15th, 2011 in Web Design

A couple of weeks ago I talked about a problem I was having in a responsive layout along with my attempted solution to the problem. If you remember that solution wasn’t something I liked due to its inflexibility.
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Do You Use These 7 Attribute Selectors In Your CSS?

by Steven Bradley
on Monday September 12th, 2011 in CSS

CSS Selectors are an essential ingredient in developing websites. They’re the hooks our css has into our html. How may different css selector patterns do you regularly use?
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How To Design the AIDA Sales Process

by Steven Bradley
on Thursday September 8th, 2011 in Web Design

The AIDA sales process has been with us for more than 100 years. It’s a simple model for the 4 and sometimes 5 stages that occur in order to make a sale. Without a sales person to guide the process how can we design for AIDA on our websites?
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Create Columns Easily With The CSS3 Multi-Column Layout Module

by Steven Bradley
on Tuesday September 6th, 2011 in CSS

Last week we looked at the css flexible box module, one of the new css tools to help with site layout. The css multi-column layout module is another that also helps with site layout and has even better support than flexible boxes.
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An Attempted Solution To A Real Responsive Layout Problem

by Steven Bradley
on Thursday September 1st, 2011 in Web Design

A couple of weeks ago I talked about some of the new layout issues we’ll need to solve when working with responsive designs. In that post I was mainly focused on the choices we need to make in structuring html to be more flexible.
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