Deciding on Your Blog Layout

Darren of Problogger recently wrote about How to Decide How Many Columns are Best for your Blog. A blog is also considered a website to me. Just that it’s a genre of its own.

I like the way Darren introduced the problem along with the solution in his life experience. He began telling the story of how a salesperson selling wardrobes wanted to make a deal with him and his wife. The surprising thing was the salesperson didn’t show them a catalogue and told them the great deals offered now.

The salesperson instead started with questions of function.

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CSS Menu Things You Must Remember

Before this I went on about how making a CSS menu can be very tricky if we didn’t pay enough attention to the arrangement of the ULs and LIs. I also provided some pointers and a kind of guide for those who’re planning to use the dropdown menu tutorials I provided.

My client of the dropdown menu inspired me to write about some of things you must remember when you’re preparing a CSS menu.

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HTML and CSS List Levels

I’m closing one of my xHTML/CSS projects soon. During the project, I needed to implement a dropdown menu and I don’t really use DHTML menus. I find that CSS with a touch of Javascript to be more manageable.

So the examples online that I hunted were from A List Apart (ALA), Nick Rigby (author of the dropdown article at ALA) and an all time CSS menu resource, Listamatic.

The tutorials were easy to understand but I faced a more general problem (that I’m embarassed of actually). I needed to understand the whole logical arrange of lists.

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9rules Only a Community Away

You know what I like best about 9rules? Other than the fact that it’s got a cool website design and many talented bloggers in their niche behind it, they’ve a vision of what a blogging network should be as it grows bigger.

Not long ago, 9rules was only a website filled with the latest articles by authors blogging their niche. Now they’ve evolved further into something most networks normally don’t aim to be because of the generic goal of providing just the best content.

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Simple Website Mission for 2006

It’s a new year of opportunities for everyone and anyone around the world. Before the clock hand struck the middle of the night and 1 second, many bloggers already posted their resolutions and wishes for this year. I took a much longer time to come up with something.

Instead of my new year resolutions and assumptions of things to come in 2006, I’m going to explain the simple mission and goal I’d like to achieve this year.

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