http://www.rmsjr.com/blog Robert Sandy's Blog and Web Portfolio Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:55:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are a Web designer or developer, you know that styling forms with CSS is a huge pain. Not only are browser inconsistencies rampant in form elements, but it is very difficult to get an advanced form to layout correctly, both visually & semantically. To alleviate these ... http://www.rmsjr.com/blog/web-design/rmsforms-a-flexible-tableless-css-forms-framework/ I am no movie critic but I am a huge fan of Pixar movies and 3D animation in general. I have to say, after seeing every Pixar movie multiple times over, that Wall-E ranks #1 out of them all, in front of Andrew Stanton's last Pixar film: "Finding Nemo". ... http://www.rmsjr.com/blog/3d/wall-e-the-best-pixar-film-to-date/ Listen to this guy... Everything he says is so true. http://www.rmsjr.com/blog/web-design/amazing-web-design-rap/ You’ve worked hours on it. It’s beautiful. It’s got glossy buttons, reflections, trendy diagonal lines and the perfect combination of textures and gradients. It’s easy to understand, the information is logically organized, the content is emphasized beautifully by contrasting colors and visual elements. It looks amazing... ... http://www.rmsjr.com/blog/web-design/web-design-the-hazy-mental-image-of-comparrison/ If you want navigation system capabilities in your '06-'08 Civic but don't want to shell out thousands for a stock navigation system from a dealer, or spend close to 1000 to install an in-dash Nav, or just want a transferable navigation device, portable navigation is the only way to go. ... http://www.rmsjr.com/blog/uncategorized/seamless-06-08-honda-civic-portable-navigation-setup/ "I want it bigger! I want it bolder!" These words have been heard by probably every web designer when consulting with a client. It is a comment that is very limited in its ability to give a designer any sort of useful feedback toward the visual design of a website ... http://www.rmsjr.com/blog/web-design/big-and-bold-vs-high-contrast-and-elegant/ There are many places out there where the use of a cell phone works very effectively in pointing out a pompous, low class asshole. These are all places that, by default, you should NOT talk on a cell phone.Here's a list of 10 of those places (in no specific order)... ... http://www.rmsjr.com/blog/random/10-places-not-to-talk-on-your-cell-phone/ Deciding on a liquid or fixed layout is a decision that should be based on design, technique, and whether or not we are willing to take into account the nature of the web as a "liquid" medium. In the term "liquid layout", I'm not referring to web sites where only ... http://www.rmsjr.com/blog/web-design/liquid-layouts/ Three of the most useful FireFox addons I have used for the purpose of web development and design are: Colorzilla Web Developer HTML Validator Colorzilla There are various features included in ColorZilla, but the most useful feature is the eyedropper tool that enables you to pick the color of any pixel within the FireFox browser. ... http://www.rmsjr.com/blog/uncategorized/extremely-useful-firefox-extensions/ In the wonderful web browser that is IE6, left and right margins are inexplicably doubled on floated elements. This is an obvious IE6 bug that has a very simple solution. To fix it, all you have to do is use the CSS property 'display:inline' on the floated element ... http://www.rmsjr.com/blog/web-design/solution-to-doubled-margin-on-floats-in-ie6/