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Featured Picture: Carabiner in Black & White

The Chipper

  • Versions, the Mac Subversion Client, is finally out. As Dave Simon stated, the ultimate in vaporware is no more.
  • Seth Godin: The Media, Selling The Drama.
  • Glarkware has a badass Cylon toaster shirt for sale. WANT!
  • OS Form Elements: Layered PSDs for the form elements of 3 major browsers. Helpful for mockups. (via JSM)
  • Mondrianum: OS X Color Picker, and Kuler swatch-downloader thingamabob. (via Oxton)
  • This is How We Do. Frank Chimero's process for incorporating hand-drawn style into vector illustrations.

January 2008 Archives

Posted by Tom at 01.11.08
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If you haven’t met previously, let me introduce you two…

Maybe you’ve been designing websites for a month. Or maybe you’ve been at it for years. You’ve been using CSS for presentational markup with HTML, and you know how reliably pages tend to display when using a modern, standards-compliant browser like Firefox or Safari. And then you view your layout in the dreaded Internet Explorer 6. It’s blown to bits, kablooey, gobbledygook. You followed all the rules, but everything is misaligned, your margins are blown, your em-based font sizes are way off…