Allthingsdev.com » CSS http://allthingsdev.com Dealing with Web Dev? Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:57:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Safari on Windows! http://allthingsdev.com/web-design/css/safari-on-windows/ http://allthingsdev.com/web-design/css/safari-on-windows/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:05:48 +0000 Jeff Purcell http://allthingsdev.com/microsoft/safari-on-windows/ Its official! Apple has released a beta version of their web browser, Safari.

Safari Running on My XP Machine!This is an exciting time for web designers married to their windows boxes, myself included. Safari is, in my opinion, the fastest rendering modern browser available. Not to mention the first of only a handful of browser to pass the Acid2 Browser Test.

Today is a good day!

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Rapid Development

Layout design time has been dramatically reduced by utilizing WordPress’s theme abilities. I now only have to create one html page which I then modularize to fit with wordpress’s theming system. This single html layout is then applied to all of the site’s pages.

Added Functionality

With WordPress’s simple yet robust administration area, I can give my clients control of certain areas of their website. They can now manage their own content and not be so dependent on me to make changes. This added functionality is a feature that is nonexistent among the other local web designers in my area.

Less Time Equals More Money

With the added functionality that wordpress’s admin area offers, I can charge more while lowering my overall time involved in the project.

Easily Add Additional Features

With the large community following that WordPress has, chances are someone has developed a plugin for that added feature or functionality that your client needs. For example, WP-ContactForm takes the headache out of programming a contact form. Once again adding that needed functionality while lowering development time.

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Box Model Explanation [via CSS Weblog]

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Alessandro Fulciniti writes about the compatability:

All layouts use valid markup and CSS, and have been tested successfully on Internet Explorer/win 5.0, 5.5, 6 and beta 2 preview of version 7; Opera 8.5, Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2.

These are definitely worth downloading. Be it for your next layout or learning the principles of negative margins and any order columns,
All layouts are done with minimal markup also:

<div id="container">
  <div id="header">Header</div>
  <div id="wrapper">
    <div id="content">Content</div>
  </div>
  <div id="navigation">Navigation</div>
  <div id="extra">Extra stuff</div>
  <div id="footer">Footer</div>
</div>

Definitely something you should keep in your Web Designer’s Tool Belt.
40 Free CSS Layouts

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Levels of CSS knowledge [via 456 Berea Street]

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