Since when was CSS so picky about how to format the name of a font in a font-family stack? I attempted to use Helvetica Neue in a font stack on a design, only to find it doesn’t show up even though the font is installed.
After reading an interesting blog entry about the breadcrumbs on Apple’s website, I undertook to experiment with breadcrumb design — as I haven’t had real need for them in any recent projects. This post explores drop-down breadcrumbs and some effects using CSS3′s general sibling selector (~). And webkit has a buuuug.
A student contacted me as part of a school project. I told her I could go on for pages and pages about why web design is the most exciting kind of design — and about all the things that make the web a fascinating medium for me, but I spared her.
Should a web designer know how to code HTML and CSS? I think so. Why? It’s a signal of quality. HTML and CSS are to web design as paint is to painting. Should a painter know how to paint? A meandering exploration of the symbiotic relationship between design and development on the web.