CSS Reference. nice searchable reference with cross-browser support info.

Coda-Slider. jquery plugin to create slidable panels (kinda like in the itunes music store).

Css Trick - Pure Css Text Gradients. that’s a slick trick using png transparencies.

CSS Text Wrapper. wrap text in any shape. really well done. check out the examples.

Datejs - A JavaScript Date Library. the textbox for time range could be really useful if you need a graphing app that needs to do both 4-hour spans and 4-month spans.

more ui tweaks

I had never that crazy about the “+” and date links being intermixed for each post on awardtour. It seemed a little confusing. So when I saw this blog yesterday I thought it a good idea to replace my “+” idea with a similar icon-set. I used the two free icon-sets I linked to yesterday to make a set for the site. I’m still not sure what color to make the icon background color. I keep switching between the standard orange, light gray, and a dark gray.

So some of you might have noticed that the other day I added a comment count icon to the side of every post which had comments. I did this so that you could pick out posts which had garnered comments but had fallen out of the “latest comments” list. I changed the comment icon to fit the new icons and it now doesn’t show the comment count in the icon but a mouse-over will tell you via a tooltip.

I also wanted to try keeping the running date on the page as I liked how it conveyed how much posting I was doing over time. I just couldn’t get it to look nice enough beside the icons. I think I might now cook up an icon set for dates and see how that looks.

Anyways, I posted this just to see if anyone had any comments on the change.

CNN Election Center 2008. i’m not a big fan of CNN but their election website is both well designed, well organized, and has useful data.

twotone icons for free!. and here’s another set.

gondaba.com. interesting blog design.

Maniacal Rage. hadn’t been to this site in a while and i like the new tumblr style theme. runs on simplelog as well.

Blue Anvil Journal ยป Anti-aliased Rounded corners with JQuery. 8k plugin for jQuery. looks pretty good.

IE and italics problem

Seems Internet Explorer 6 is just out to screw me whenever possible. I just realized that all the posts I did recently which included album covers weren’t aligning properly IE6. So I assumed the images where the problem and after a horrible amount of edit-and-check cycles I realized that the problem was actually related to the italic text in the paragraphs. IE, for some stupid reason, won’t overflow italicized text properly so the width of the containing “p” or “div” is too wide. Luckily a quick search on google turned up a great summary of the IE and italics problem. I tried using the fix they suggested but I couldn’t get it to work. So what did I do? I turned off italics for “em” tags within IE6 or below (using this conditional comment trick) . So, if you like italics you should use firefox (or safari) or upgrade to IE7.

The Whale Hunt / by Jonathan Harris / Interface. some cool ui work related to telling stories through large sets of photos.

CommandShift3 - It’s like Hot or Not for web design. the tagline says it all.

FAVEUP - Design Inspiration Gallery. logos, business cards, and websites.

Announcing SilkSprite: A CSS Sprite Plugin for Blueprint. if you use blueprint and need icons for webapps.

Jason Santa Maria | Avatar Icebreaker. hand drawn avatar pictures. the one of jeffrey zeldman made me laugh for some reason. via ram.