Compass: CSS Doesn’t Have to Suck

Friday, March 13th, 2009 by Enrico

Web layout with CSS is usually painful.  Sure, it’s better than the alternative — trust me, I’ve written enough table-based layouts to know — but at the same time it is painful enough that many insist that web designers should just give up on CSS layout all together.

WYSIWYG and the Modern Web

Friday, October 31st, 2008 by Enrico

I got the idea for this post when Jeff and I were reading a recent discussion on programming reddit.  In summary, the poster was asking readers to help him convince his boss not to use Adobe Dreamweaver to develop their web application.
Back in the bad old days (by which I mean the 90’s of course) [...]

Webmonkey is Back!

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 by Enrico

When I was teaching myself HTML and CSS, I used to refer to Webmonkey, a site filled with tutorials, references, and resources on just about everything to do with web design and development. This was back in the late nineties or so, before the web standards movement gained the traction that it has today. [...]