Words, punctuated » Web Design http://probertson.com Thoughts on web development, user-centered design, code, etc. by Paul Robertson Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:38:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Patterns for Interaction Design http://probertson.com/articles/2005/03/01/id-patterns-repository/ http://probertson.com/articles/2005/03/01/id-patterns-repository/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:28:09 +0000 Paul Robertson http://probertson.com/articles/2005/03/01/id-patterns-repository/ I can’t decide if I agree about the choice to call these design patterns, but in any case here is a nice (albeit small) collection of solutions to common interaction design needs. Be sure not to miss the section on Interaction Design Literature and Sites, which has links to the big names plus some hidden gems.

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Today I found an article which describes the CSS necessary to scale a movie to 100% width and height. I will try it out and see if it suffers from the same cutoff-below-200-pixels problem I ran into.

The author, Geoff Stearns, also has another article with javascript code for detecting the Flash Player and embedding the Flash content in an XHTML 1.0 valid way. Two good finds in one site — what a deal!

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http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=216588

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sIFR

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]]> http://probertson.com/articles/2004/10/09/interview-with-ebay-vice-president-of-user-experience-and-design/feed/ 0 Highlighting current page with CSS http://probertson.com/articles/2004/08/30/highlighting-current-page-with-css-jon-hicks/ http://probertson.com/articles/2004/08/30/highlighting-current-page-with-css-jon-hicks/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:42:31 +0000 Paul Robertson http://probertson.com/articles/2004/08/30/highlighting-current-page-with-css-jon-hicks/ http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/271/highlighting-current-page-with-css
While there are a few common ways to get a different style for the “current” page, this one is the most Dreamweaver-template-friendly, especially if you follow Stephanie Sullivan’s tips.

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]]> http://probertson.com/articles/2004/08/30/css-in-dreamweaver-overview/feed/ 0 The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters) http://probertson.com/articles/2004/07/29/the-trouble-with-em-n-en-and-other-shady-characters/ http://probertson.com/articles/2004/07/29/the-trouble-with-em-n-en-and-other-shady-characters/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:34:44 +0000 Paul Robertson http://probertson.com/articles/2004/07/29/the-trouble-with-em-n-en-and-other-shady-characters/ The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)

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