I didn’t know that the Helvetica font has been plotting world domination…
I came to an alarming discovery: in the 7 years since the BBC first mentioned the dangers of Helvetica – which it dismissed as a “very, very rare occurence”-, the menace has made the leap from calcium atoms and humans to the Web itself. [...]

Don’t end up on this list, check your website straight away.
Jeffrey Zeldman’s latest project aims to name and shame websites whose designers don’t take time to properly check that their background colour settings are in synch.
It’s astounding how many web designers forget to specify a background color on their site. They’ll spend months iterating [...]

It’s been reasonably lovey-dovey here at disassociated this morning, with talk of Star Trek babes, dating psychology, and public love letters . I have no idea why. Maybe it has something to do with seeing Brideshead Revisited last week.
Anyway.
Part two of the CSS wishlist has just been published, with a number of well known [...]

Possibly one of the most eye-catching, and alarmingly, titled articles I have seen in a while, Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong, a primer in the execution and use of CSS tables, by Rachel Andrew at Digital Web Magazine.
CSS tables solve all the problems encountered when using absolute positioning or floats to create multi-column [...]

An interesting read over at Ordered List proclaiming that the use pixel font sizes are now off the no-no list in stylesheets.
The other day as I started a new project, it hit me. Safari is now on ‘roids. Firefox 3 is not too far behind. And Internet Explorer 7, well IE7 now does the [...]

Could this be the answer to the prayers of web developers fed up with trying to accommodate IE 6’s CSS rendering quirks and bugs? A way to hide your stylesheet from Internet Explorer 6.
We have been able to hide styles from older browsers such as IE 4 and Netscape using the @import declaration (and IE [...]

A lovely euphemism for rehashing previously used design methods and even raw code: it’s called your design signature:
If you’ve designed more than five sites in your site, you likely have a design signature too, although it’s probably different than most other designers and coders you know. You may not even know you have it, but [...]

I’d say if you want to be a web designer then having a working knowledge of HTML would be pretty much be a prerequisite. But not necessarily… an art director I once worked at a web design studio didn’t even know what H T M L meant…
If you aren’t proficient in HTML, you may be [...]

A cool collection of paragraph formatting techniques and experiments, some of which unfortunately don’t work across all browsers and platforms, using a little CSS trickery.
Great reference point though if you want to try something new and different with your paragraph formatting.

Back in the day being a web designer meant knowing a little HTML (no CSS) and how to use image creation software like Photoshop. That was about it. That was a long time ago. There is just a little bit more to the role today however.
You may find that there are plenty of job listings [...]