A few CSS titbits

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.

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I'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.

I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.

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