Dustin Diaz is getting naked again! Well at least his blog is. CSS Naked Day is back for a third year. Head on over and sign up then strip away your CSS on April 9th.
Hey Dustin – any chance we’ll see GMail going naked this year?
Zen Master of the CSS Zen Garden, Dave Shea, will now be joining Derek Featherstone as a speaker at the next meeting of the Better Web Posse in Victoria.
The evening will begin with Derek talking about “Accessible mapping with Google Maps” and then Dave will end with “Top 5 Ways to Improve Your Web Design”.
Please take a moment to help us prepare for a sane event, and sign up to RSVP. Again the event details are:
MONDAY, December 10 | 7:00 pm
The Sticky Wicket, Maple Room (map)
A (sort of) Quick Introduction to making your own Adium Message Style is a tutorial I am going to put on my todo list! Adium is my favorite IM client for OSX and I just found out that you can customize and create your own themes using nothing but HTML and CSS (and a sprinkle of XML). Pretty cleaver of the smart people at Adium to embrace web standards and use them as a tool for extending their platform!
Kevin Hale from Particletree reminds us about Rediscovering the Button Element. I have to admit that I rarely use the button element, but after reading his article I think I’ll start to use it more. One perceived advantage is that it allows you to create buttons that render exactly the same across all platforms.
Garrett Dimon has authored a great article for Digital Web Magazine regarding issues and techniques for Architecting CSS. Some topics covered include:
The Better Web Posse is back and better than ever, with our next meeting Thursday, June 15! Hosted at one of the hottest web firms in Victoria BC, Number 41 Media (google map). Get the details at www.betterwebposse.com
How to tell if you’re Posse stuff:
If you answered “yes” to any one of those, consider yourself “checked-in”!
Hope to see you all there!
From the creators of the fantastic Xyle Scope CSS debugging tool for OSX, comes a fantastic CSS 2.1 Reference. In my opinion this is the best reference available online. It’s very well organized and the interface is very snappy.
Yahoo! UI Library is now offering a collection of seven web page templates that generate Grids CSS. The templates offer the the ability to nest grids of one to four columns within the content area of those templates. This provides you with more than 100 page layouts with a single CSS file at just 1.82KB. The templates and CSS have A-Grade browser support and many other great options!
Inspired by groups like the WSG and Britpack, The Better Web Posse (ok, we might still be looking for another name) is holding their Inaugural Monthly Meetup at the Sticky Wicket Pub in Victoria on Thursday, May 11, 2006. The meetup is designed to bring together web designers, developers, and uber geeks with hopes in providing support, general discussion, and encouragement in working with web standards. And what better Canadian way than to do this over beer? I’m planning on attending, so I hope to see you there!
