web standards for web and graphic designers

CSS & Standerz 4 Grafix Dezinerz

Doin’ et the LOLcatz way

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Let me tell u intertoobz, we can haz dezine skillz already!

F’rinstance. We mak many pitchers, at diffrint opasity. C?

CSS? We dont need no stinkin’ CSS!

1994Hawt Design!

Drive Intert00bz 96

Coke is it. Font is not.

At the end of ’96, it Sucked.

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Then came Budd. Uglly, that is

Invariably, most of these designs relied on table-based layouts. Which meant that presentation – the style or design of the page – was bound up with the content (words, images, video, etc.)

But then came the box model - divs

I am in yer box model, checkin’out yer code.

What are CSS standards?

“The W3C invented Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in 1996 to increase the presentational sophistication and the accessibility of websites, and to eliminate the browser-specific markup that threatened to fragment the emerging web. …Today … there is every reason to use CSS to remove invalid markup from your sites, separate style from content, lighten the bandwidth of your pages, and increase the odds that people and devices will actually be able to access the sites you create.”

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/05/06/line-height-abnormal/

CSS Zen GardenSelling CSS to Designers

WHY TABLE-BASED DESIGNS SHOULD BE CONSIGNED TO THE DUSTBIN OF

HISTORY

Why Designing with Tables is Stupid

CSS Live -- watch CSS come alive

Design Rant

To Hell With Bad Browsers

The Business Value of Web Standards

The benefits of Web Standards

A Web Standards Primer

CSS Showcases

• Stylegala• CSS Mania• CSS Heaven• Menu Showcase• Elements Showcase• CSS Drive• CSS Beauty• Best CSS Design of 2007• 50 Excellent Web Designs• Table ZenGarden

CSS Evangelists / Designers

• Veerle• Douglas Bowman's Stop

Design• Andy Clarke• 456 Berea St. • Khoi Vin, Design Director

for NYT• Stu Nichols’ CSS Play• Ask the CSS Guy

• Position is Everything (this *was* probably the ugliest CSS site in the known universe)

• Eric Meyers’s CSS/Edge• Andy Rutlege• Blue Flavor• Vacant Canvas• Rob Goodlatte• Ruthsarian

Random & Varied

• The world’s highest Web site• Yslow• Yahoo!’s YUI Grids page• 53 CSS Techniques you can't live without• CSS Reboot Project• Holy CSS, Zeldman (Resources)• Reset Reloaded• Resizeable Images with CSS• Veerle’s / Duoh’s links for CSS newbs