January 18, 2006

How to Improve Your Logo

http://www.fizbang.com/1-3-06.php

Logo "touch-up" is one of our most frequent requests. Our final work must be more effective, more visually appealing, and most importantly, recognizable as a revision of the old logo. How do we go about this? I wrote this guide both to offer potential business clients insight into our graphic design process and to help aspiring graphic designers.

- Logo Design Objectives
- Tips for Improving Logos
- Apple's and Microsoft's Logos
- How We Improve a Logo
- Conclusion

January 09, 2006

CSS Hacks and IE7

CSS Hacks and IE7

Recently the Microsoft blog announced some of the changes we may expect for the release of the IE7 browser, perhaps in early 2006. It's very good that we are getting this advance notice, because MS is biting the bullet and cleaning up a lot of selector effects that coders are using to hack special rules for Explorer.

Specifically a number of CSS hacks that rely on IEwin's failure to support certain advanced selectors will be failing, because IE7 will introduce IE's support those selectors. In the long run, this is a very good thing for us CSS'ers, since it will give us a lot more power and control over what our CSS does and where. Unfortunately, in the short run it will mean rewriting stylesheets and making alternate provisions for hacking IEwin.

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January 03, 2006

CSS Zen Garden

http://www.csszengarden.com/


A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.

Download the sample html file and css file from the site for trying it out yourself.