I’ve been a web designer/developer (probably more developer) on Ubuntu Linux for quite awhile now, and I’m here to tell you that it’s possible. Here are some common and serious problems and their solutions.
Since releasing BlueTrip, I’ve come across many a doubter who argue that CSS Frameworks are unnecessary, non-semantic, or sometimes just downright annoying and inflexible. I’ve fought this battle so many times that I’ve slowly gathered a response to all of these charges, and I’m going to stick them all here, in one place, as one big steaming billboard of I LOVE FRAMEWORKS propaganda.
I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before. One of those most common complains with CSS frameworks (like BlueTrip…ahem) is that they include a lot of code that you won’t ever use (you’re probably never going to have a project where you use EVERY single column width or EVERY single possible typographical markup.
Let there be Dust-Me Selectors. It’s is a Firefox extension that finds unused CSS selectors and notifies you so you can remove them from your stylesheets. Awesome.
I’m trying to compile a showcase of sites built on BlueTrip to put on the website.
Let me know if you have! You can comment here, email me from the contact page, or post it on the BlueTrip forum.
Chrome is already beating Opera in browser market share. While Chrome isn’t bad and I like it alot, I think that’s pretty crazy.
Firefox, on one hand, is a whole different ballgame. It’s huge, has a hugely popular plugin architecture, open source, etc. It’s the big papa of the standards-compliant crew, in direct opposition with IE.
I’ve always been a proponent of reset stylesheets. Jonathan Snook made an almost convincing argument against them a few months ago, which was backed up by Jens Meiert quite well.
For those who aren’t familiar with Java for the web, there’s a (quite popular) flavor known as JSP which transforms Java into a web-based language. By inserting bits of Java code into HTML pages (much like how inline PHP works), the possibilities become endless. And as a result of Java’s strong object oriented tendencies, it becomes easy to make your own MVC architecture by having a “models” package which contains all the classes with DB interaction, and a “controllers” package which contains all of the files which do processing to display on the page. Since Java is such a powerful language, this seems like a winner. And it may be.