http://blog.valefor.com Music, Games, Linux, Programming, Design Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:37:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en These are all a part of my quickly growing collection of books on web design or relating to it. I always have more I'm interested in picking up, but they're all so expensive! ;) Javascript Simply Javascript CSS CSS: The Definitive Guide Designing with Web Standards CSS Cookbook Bulletproof Web Design The Art & Science of CSS Transcending ... http://blog.valefor.com/2008/06/27/books-i-own-that-ive-found-useful-in-web-design/ Lol this article is amazing :PBut don't read it if you don't want spoilers for Battlestar Galactica up to the very end of the third season.Cylons for McCain http://blog.valefor.com/2008/05/04/cylons-for-mccain/ I'm getting disappointed reading the current news coming out of the OLPC camp. The reason I supported the project (and forked over my $400) was for two reasons. 1) I agree with education being the answer to most of the world's problems and 2) I support open software. This project ... http://blog.valefor.com/2008/05/02/olpc-dissapointments/ http://fadtastic.net/2008/04/01/awesome-hot-tips-for-your-website-in-2008/The Universal IE HackAnother hot tip? Go on then.Last year saw the launch of IE7. IE6 is still a widely used browser and IE8 beta is out of the starting blocks. A lot of IE hacks? Nope. Simply use the Universal IE Hack. Place the following code in the Head ... http://blog.valefor.com/2008/04/29/lol/ So I came across this website that's like, a "hot or not" site, except for web pages instead of women, and this site is listed as the worst... or "least hot" if you willhttp://www.videosoniclab.com/L O L seriously http://blog.valefor.com/2008/04/23/best-of-the-worst/ http://weallhatequickbooks.com/Make sure to scroll down and also resize the window to get the full effect of what they did with this site :) It's really neat! One of my coworkers linked it to me. http://blog.valefor.com/2008/04/22/another-cool-one/ http://www.webleeddesign.comMake sure to scroll down :)And if you use IE6 (or something else that doesn't support partially transparent pngs) it won't work. But if you're using IE6, upgrade your browser for the love of god. http://blog.valefor.com/2008/04/21/coolest-website-ever/ I have a dentist appointment tomorrow morning :D Hurray! http://blog.valefor.com/2008/04/03/i-has-dentist-appointment/ Old Mac commercial parody - I will always love this thing.Why coding to standards is awesome, rap style http://blog.valefor.com/2008/04/01/link-i-want-to-save/ I found this out a while ago but amusing nonetheless:"Linux" is an "inappropriate word" according to XBOX live. To be fair, so is Macintosh - not sure about "Mac" XD http://blog.valefor.com/2008/03/31/inappropriate-word-other-operating-systems/