http://www.designrefugee.com/design-blog An alternative design education community Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:32:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tutorial Difficulty: Moderate – requires basic CSS and PHP skills, requires PHP enabled webserver CSS style sheets are wonderful things. They offer greater design control than traditional HTML and make it possible to change the look and feel of an entire website by changing only one file. Of course that power ... http://www.designrefugee.com/design-blog/css-variables.html I recently had occasion to take another look at the screen resolutions of visitors to the websites I monitor. I used Google Analytics to check the percentage of user with 800 x 600 pixel monitors who visited 9 sites during September. While the results weren't surprising, they did represent a ... http://www.designrefugee.com/design-blog/monitor-revisited.html I recently became involved in an interesting thread in the AIGA Design Education online discussion group. Basically the topic was the increasing complexity and bloating of design software. Here’s a few relevant comments from the discussion: graphicdavid started it off: “… it seems that Adobe is making the software increasingly complex, instead of ... http://www.designrefugee.com/design-blog/abode-bloat.html Back in June I mentioned being surprised by the low number of visitors to this site using 800 x 600 pixel monitors. At the time the exact number was zero. Well it's increased a bit since then. Now a whopping 0.67% of visitors here have the mini-monitors. In spite ... http://www.designrefugee.com/design-blog/monitor-size.html Note: This is our second tutorial on customizing Spry menu bars in Dreamweaver CS3. The first covered customizing horizontal menu bars. Many of the steps for creating and customizing vertical menu bars are the same as those for horizontal menu bars. That information is repeated here so you won’t have ... http://www.designrefugee.com/design-blog/more-spry-menu-bars.html