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Entries Tagged as 'CSS'

Portal Upgrade Complete

August 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments

As the summer winds down, WEBD has successfully completed the uPortal upgrade that we’ve been diligently working on for the past month. In addition to moving to the uPortal 2.6 framework, and DLM based layouts, we’ve improved the presentation layer quite a bit.

The most exciting element of the upgrade is the move away from table […]

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Tags: CSS · Portal

CAS Interface Update

August 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Yesterday, we updated the CAS interface. It’s now based on the Yahoo YUI CSS library. Working with the YUI library has been a blessing. We’ve converted most of our web applications, as well as any websites we create, and even a few we update, to use the YUI library. Next up to get converted to […]

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Tags: CSS · Web Design · Web Development

Validating YUI

May 16th, 2007 · No Comments

It is just me or did anyone else notice that iGoogle (aka Google Personalized Homepage) is now using YUI Grids ? Talk about validating the direction you’ve choosen for adapting a framework: both Yahoo and Google are now using the YUI Grids framework. Mega Cool.

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yui, yahoo, igoogle,

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Tags: CSS · Web Design

Implementing Yahoo UI Library

November 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Fonts, Resets, and Grids, OH MY!

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Tags: Accessibility · CSS · Web Design

A-grade Browsers

November 15th, 2006 · No Comments

It should would be great to move to more Yahoo Developer components.

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Tags: CSS

Not so 1990’s

May 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Wherein we get with the times.

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Tags: CSS · Web 2.0 · Web Design

Fixing a hole…

May 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Wherein we fix CSS bugs.

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Tags: CSS · HOWTO · Web Design

Back to Design Basics

May 11th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Wherein we describe visual design.

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Tags: CSS · Information Design · Web Design

Alternating Row Colors with Ruby on Rails

April 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Wherein we start to love ruby.

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Tags: CSS · Ruby on Rails · Web Design

Happy Naked Day

April 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Well if University Waterloo can do it, so can we!

Strip down your sites of CSS and show us your HTML with pride. For more info on Naked Day, check out the man who started it all, Dustin Diaz.

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Tags: CSS · Web Design