http://www.ssddwebdesign.com Strategy=>Solution=>Design=>Development Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:21:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is a quick summary for those of you who don't want to read the whole article: Always use strict doctype and standards-compliant HTML/CSS Always use a reset at the start of your css Use -moz-opacity:0.99 on text elements to clean up rendering in Firefox, and text-shadow: #000 0 0 0 in Safari Never ... http://www.ssddwebdesign.com/blog/2008/06/27/how-to-get-cross-browser-compatibility-every-time/ The irony of creative change (via Forty Media): The irony of creativity is this: people want to be creative without change. They want innovation with no risk. They want a new result with the same exact behavior. They can talk for hours about how passionate they are about creativity, but when ... http://www.ssddwebdesign.com/blog/2008/06/24/the-irony-of-creative-change/ Why we don’t skip Photoshop: No clients. This is a big one. 37signals is not a client services company. Rather, they build products. 37signals is a small team of people who all understand the web and web development very, very well. It’s easy for them to visualize things and move on ... http://www.ssddwebdesign.com/blog/2008/06/06/were-going-to-stick-with-photoshop/ We will be unavailable from May 11th through May 20th for a much needed mini-vacation. We will respond to your e-mails upon our return. http://www.ssddwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/09/out-of-pocket-2/ From Web God Jeffrey Zeldman: "Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration." http://www.ssddwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/06/a-nugget-of-wisdom-for-all-projects/ We had a slow winter around here at SSDD Web Design. Other aspects of life captured our attention (family, friends, significant others, illness, travel, etc.). But the sun is shining and things are picking up. Currently we're working on our first ZenCart installation for a (the) local leather store, a shopping ... http://www.ssddwebdesign.com/blog/2008/05/01/still-alive/ Via Team Forty: "Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design helps us to understand a product. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is durable. Good design is consequent to the last detail. Good design is concerned with the ... http://www.ssddwebdesign.com/blog/2008/01/30/good-design-is/ Mr. Robinson over on Blue Flavor started the new year off right with a nice little post about project management, which happens to echo our philosophy on the topic: Keep it simple. Stick with what works. Put the real before the ideal. Have a process but be flexible. When all else fails, just work. We try ... http://www.ssddwebdesign.com/blog/2008/01/02/project-management-made-easy/ It's a good thing we're better about deadlines than anniversaries. A few days ago was the one year anniversary of the launch of SSDD Web Design. Feels like it's been a lot longer. http://www.ssddwebdesign.com/blog/2007/11/30/missed-it-by-that-much/ I usually hate pop-up windows but I am captivated by this Highslide JS - JavaScript thumbnail viewer. From the site: Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages. The library ... http://www.ssddwebdesign.com/blog/2007/11/26/excellent-pop-up-windows/