dougoftheabaci
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Semantics of CSS text-swapping? Accessibility concerns?
That would still require the use to click or in some other way "activate" the focus. I think I'd be better with a "default" state. Though I could look into what Twitter does more for Mobile.
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Semantics of CSS text-swapping? Accessibility concerns?
We're not too worried about mobile on our site for a number of reasons, but that is a good point to consider for future. In that context I'd likely default to the hovered state. It is true I very much want it to read out both as to do oth…
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Which font sizing is best? EM vs PX vs %
I use PX because it's easier. However, for stuff where I don't need to worry about legacy stuff (IE8 and lower) I'm starting to use REM's as they offer a lot of flexibility without the downside of EM's. However, if I do nee…
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text-indent: -9999px = bad seo?
Just to come in here from a purely front-end perspective, text-indent and position absolute solutions suffer from one major problem: You’re browser its still painting that text, just really far off to the left. The font:0/0 a;color:transparent; meth…
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Amazing Scrolling Effect
+1 to Jarolin’s comments. It’s a very interesting technique but can only remember once feeling that it was used in a way that improved the site’s message. I could see it being useful to swap out visual states when scrolling but beyond that it seem…
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Logo critique
While I agree with the others that details are highly important, my piece of critique goes another direction: I can’t read the name. “Uneort”? “Uneart”? “Unemt”? After seeing the original concept I was able to get it but as it is I couldn’t read it…
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on hover change width
You can solve the problem by putting each item in a container, having it be relatively positioned with a width of the default view. Then have an inner container which you manipulate the width of that’s positioned absolutely. Then your layout won’t c…
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WWW or No-WWW
@Paulie_D with or without is all the same to Google (they have publicly said as much). What they say is just make sure you're as consistent as possible and to use the canonical meta attribute to make sure search engines see it as one page, with…
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WWW or No-WWW
In terms of tech, your site should allow both www and no-www and redirect to your preference. Beyond that... Yeah, doesn't matter. There's no SEO benefit one way or the other, just in consistency. There's no technological reason to ha…
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Menu UL list menus vs table menus
Screen readers do fine with tables in a tabular context (surprise, surprise, right?) but with menus things can get a little bit muddy. Granted, it's something they've had to deal with for years, but that doesn't mean it's the bes…
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Menu UL list menus vs table menus
It's not semantic. It's not accessible. It's a pain to maintain. It's an even worse pain to style. Tables are meant for tabular data. Menus are not tabular data.