29/07/2007 by admin.

Apart from Floats, the CSS Specificity is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp in Cascading Stylesheets. The different weight of selectors is usually the reason why your CSS-rules don’t apply to some elements, although you think they should have. In order to minimize the time for bug hunting you need to understand, how browsers interpret your code. And to understand that, you need to have a firm understanding on how specificity works. In most cases such problems are caused by the simple fact that somewhere among your CSS-rules you’ve defined a more specific selector.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/

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06/07/2007 by admin.

A Dynamic Diagrams White Paper

A must read for all Web designers.

Indepth and highly informative study, touching on such vital topics as:

• Why information architecture makes sense for big Web sites
• How information architecture can help your Web site
• Information architecture on the global scale
• Information architecture and visual explanation

http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/all_pdfs/dD_information_architecture.pdf

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06/07/2007 by admin.

Touring street-art battle starting this weekend in Bristol.

http://www.secretwars.co.uk/

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06/07/2007 by admin.

Some great design references in this Flickr set from Alki1.

http://flickr.com/photos/20745656@N00/sets/

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