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A Quote On Typography

By Chris Poteet on July 2, 2008

Every once in a while I see a quote on some­thing that nails it. Jon Tan­ger­ine wrote recently on The Para­graph in Web Typog­ra­phy & Design, and he said a quote worth shar­ing and con­tem­plat­ing on. The only thing I did was fix two spelling errors. “Good typog­ra­phy makes the can­vas fit the mean­ing of […]

Posted in Design, User Experience, Writing | Tagged quote, Typography | 2 Responses

CSS Browser Reset

By Chris Poteet on March 24, 2008

A trendy topic amongst CSS’ers is the CSS reset. The idea is that you inter­cept the default browser stylesheet (that is used first in the cas­cade), reset, and then apply generic styles includ­ing margin/padding. I read many arti­cles by many gurus, but I even­tu­ally came out with what I have below. For dif­fer­ing imple­men­ta­tions check out […]

Posted in Design, User Interface | Tagged CSS, reset, Typography, ui, Web Design | 13 Responses

Economical Usability Testing

By Chris Poteet on January 31, 2008

Usabil­ity test­ing is often over­looked to the peril of both the devel­oper and the con­sumer. I was con­victed read­ing Steve Krug’s book on usabil­ity to go ahead with test­ing even if it’s small and cheap. In doing this for the recent design of this site I wanted to share how I did usabil­ity test­ing for […]

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An Introduction to CSS

By Chris Poteet on November 27, 2007

I gave the fol­low­ing pre­sen­ta­tion at my day job, and I thought oth­ers might ben­e­fit. That, and I think that SlideShare is a cool app! | View | Upload your own

Posted in Design, Usability, User Interface | Tagged CSS, development, Typography, Web Design | Leave a response

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