nekkidblogger - Part 4

A remark on tables, DIV’s, and CSS

January 19, 2010

On the internet, and in books and articles about Web Design, a large number of writers keep telling me about the vast advantages of CSS-based site layouts over site layouts based on tables. Personally, I use both kinds of designs, and I really do not see any great advantage of one over the other. And [...]

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A three column table layout, for SEO content loads first

January 12, 2010

We assume you want a three column or some multi-column layout. And that you want to have the main content in the middle column. Also, as before, we assume that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a biggie, and that it is desirable to have a design where the content column is the first to load, [...]

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A Radical Web Design Principle: No More Internet Explorer Support

January 1, 2010

In the past, I have spent hours and hours searching through my reference books and on the Internet to make my sites look as good in the various versions of Internet Explorer as in CSS compliant browsers. And I have implemented IE version specific style sheets, IE hacks and rewrites of CSS to make layouts, [...]

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SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1), by Michael H. Fleischner

December 21, 2009

The title tells you what this book is about: Getting the No. 1 spot on Google. That’s where you want to be, and probably dream of being, if you’re doing SEM (Search Engine Marketing) of your site. That’s the spot that drives the most traffic by far! SEO Made Simple is a tell-all guide for [...]

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Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte

December 19, 2009

This is a jewel of a book from one of the acknowledged grand masters of CSS and Web Design. There is a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design, and Cederholm and Marcotte show what this link resides in. That’s the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design. It explores CSS3 that works [...]

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CSS3 Box Shadows, Browsers, and Internet Explorer (IE-8)

December 18, 2009

CSS3 supports a new “box-shadow” property that can be applied to shadow page elements such as images, SPANs and DIVs. This is great, since it makes it easier to produce good looking frames for images and to nicely off-set boxes in a number of different and stylish ways. This new feature is currently supported in [...]

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CSS and SEO: 3 column frontloaded layout

December 11, 2009

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a biggie. But it is seemingly extremely complicated, in the sense that a huge number of factors affect how a given page ends up in searches. One of the factors some authors and discussants on the net point to, is how well your page is designed. Some point out that [...]

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