http://adamducker.com/blog A personal blog and work portfolio dedicated to CSS web development, web standards, and accessibility. Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:22:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bulletproof. Is there a more overused word when it comes to web design and CSS?  I'm not sure there is.  It's one of those things that has been used so much it starts to lose it's meaning.  Maybe it's just the mood I'm in but the word really gets on ... http://adamducker.com/blog/10/overused-words-bulletproof/ I'm working on creating a keyword heavy site  in order to generate traffic which right now I just call NewsWordy.  My roots are in political blogging so even though I quit that on my own sites I still read and comment on a lot of other people's political blogs.  The ... http://adamducker.com/blog/9/keyword-heavy/ The activity on the site has started to pick up slightly this month so I've decided to take a look at some usage data. Along with Google Analytics I also track site usage in-house using a low scale PHP/JavaScript tracking system I started but never made fully functional for users. ... http://adamducker.com/blog/8/realtime-usage-statistics/ In the post 10 Easy Steps to Great Website Optimization the Wojo Group mentions CSS sprites in #3 and it got me thinking. You should always use CSS sprites if you can and not just because they're super cool in a nerdy sort of way. When people ... http://adamducker.com/blog/7/animated-gif-for-css-sprites/ So I haven't been doing a good job. I've neglected my young site. But life happens and sometimes you like baseball more than you like CSS but now it's October and the Dodgers flawless ascension to the World Series has hit a bump in the first round of the ... http://adamducker.com/blog/6/css-systems/ In college I took 2D and 3D design courses as part of the digital graphics minor I was completing. The mechanics of art have always come easy to me but I just grew out of wanting to do it a long time ago. I would start with what ... http://adamducker.com/blog/5/reset-and-starting-from-scratch/ Today on CSS-Discuss a user asked a question about the pseudo-element ":first-letter". Having started designing websites when Netscape 4 was still a consideration I find it hard to unlearn a lot of things. I've been afraid to try stranger parts of CSS like pseudo-elements for a while and ... http://adamducker.com/blog/4/two-pseudo-elements-you-can-use/ Last night I was playing with the structure of the site trying to get the semantics of the HTML better. Using the tools from the W3C's semantic data extraction for the site it gives me a nifty outline of the site. CSS CSS CSS [Author Graphic: Adam Ducker] Site Navigation Blog About This ... http://adamducker.com/blog/3/site-outline/ A member of CSS-Discuss today was having a problem with a centered P tag not actually being centered in the browser. When I saw what the problem was I had a flashback of my early days with CSS and I understood how this person felt. The problem was ... http://adamducker.com/blog/2/css-specificity/ My blog is up and running and I'll start posting content here in the coming days. Stay tuned. http://adamducker.com/blog/1/welcome-to-the-new-blog/