Mark Boulton

Some inter­est­ing art­icles around at the moment. 

ALA as always deliv­ers the goods this week with two great art­icles. Faux Columns answers some ques­tions in my mind about ver­tic­ally stretch­ing divs etc. Elastic Design adds some thoughts sur­round­ing the whole fixed/liquid thing. 

Max design has a great “how to” guide on build­ing a full CSS site. It takes you through the simple build­ing blocks of writ­ing semantic code and use­ful CSS. There’s a great sec­tion on print stylesheets too.

Found this site of an agency called 37signals which has a good bal­ance of design and usab­il­ity. They have some really good visu­als of usab­il­ity reports and that kind of thing (i’m find­ing this sort of thing with a brand guide I need to write soon). Some good resources and writ­ing too. 

Zeldman’s done a redesign which is cool although I find the tabs a little odd.