Design and Creativity
Stu Nichols demonstrates a CSS method of achiving min-width in Internet Explorer. This is very useful technique when you want a column to resize depending on the visitor’s browser, but you want to maintain a minimum column width. Most browsers support the CSS min-width property, but IE does not. In order to maintain a minimum width on a column in IE JavaScript must be used. We used the min-width IE JavaScript hack for the Site-in-an-Hour exercise, but we discovered that the JavaScript actually locks up IE when the browsers is resized. Neither of the methods Mr. Nichols demonstrates use JavaScript.
And All That Malarkey has gone through a complete redesign. Fortunately for us the designer, Andy Clarke, shares his design process with the rest of us.
Mezzoblue has a good article on Columns & Grids
How to be creative – Worth a read.
Still looking for more free fonts? How about 1001 of them.
Have you visited the library lately? The public library has lots of great books on graphic design, CSS, XHTML, PHP, and other course related topics.
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May 17th, 2005 at 10:58 pm
I have been playing with Stu Nicholls’s ideas for min-width. Got bizarre results with the float version needed for IE5.01 Win; better results with the display: inline-block version. But any padding-left seems to be added to padding-right, giving a large white gap on the right of my design. Adding a padding-right of zero to IE resulted in the correct right-padding!!? Hmm.
Now I will try it out on a min-width specified in “ems”
Love those fonts. Anyone heard of sIFR – scalable Inman Flash Replacement? See here: http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/
Thank you, Robin.