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- Handcrafted CSS Nashville: The Rebound Contest Winners!
- Handcrafted CSS Nashville: The Rebound Contest
April 2010
March 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
August 2009
- Regarding HTML5
- Handcrafted Haiku Winners Announced
- Win a Ticket to Handcrafted CSS
- Photos of Handcrafted CSS
- Jim Coudal
July 2009
- John Allsopp
- New Charge Tee, New Shop
- The Plan by Jack Handey
- Handcrafted CSS: The Workshop
- Announcing: Handcrafted CSS
June 2009
May 2009
- Introducing Typekit
- Andy Clarke on a clever solution for IE6
- Ben Ward on Google's microformats support
- Charge Tee Restocked
- Jeremy Keith on Zoomfusion
April 2009
March 2009
- New Work: Wikirank
- Doug Bowman on leaving Google
- Bubbles Out the Window
- FourTrack
- Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Changes
- Evan Williams
February 2009
January 2009
- Type Designer, Mark Simonson
- Beautiful Accidents
- Build Society, February 2nd
- Norman Corwin
- Greg Storey
- New Icons: Boxtrot and Ballroom SuperPack
- Upcoming Speaking Events
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
- A Few Days with the New MBP
- twitter.com/simplebits
- Huffduffer's ingenious Mad Libs style signup form
- Eric Meyer on pushing CSS3 support with JavaScript
- New at the IconShoppe: Disco
- Authentic Discount
- Wilson Miner on a crafty use of RGBa
- SimpleGoods
- Airbag: Foxworthy
- Jeffrey Zeldman on 10 years of A List Apart
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
- Adam Darowski on the URL as UI
- Decision or Bug?
- Purple.com Frequently Asked Questions
- Dagen H
- Safari 3.1 Develop Menu
- Marked Up & Styled
- SimpleBits Seeks Apprentice/Assistant
- New Deckians
- Dave Shea on Producing
- Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager, Internet Explorer
- Quick by Southwest
February 2008
- Sebastiaan de With
- Markup & Style Society
- The Airbag Guide to SXSW for Newbs and Veterans
- Webstocked
- Armin Vit on a clever mouse
- On/Off
- The Evolution of Tech Companies Logos
- Ryan Sims on Cinematic Web Design
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
- Cork'd Update #2
- Words I Can Easily Type With My Left Hand
- Introducing Cork'd
- The Only Song You'll Need to Learn on the Ukulele
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
- The Penny
- Chameleon: a new icon set that changes color
- Embrace the Scroll
- 1/2 of a Two-Way Conversation
- Digital Web Interview (and Life News)
- Slidell Hurricane Damage Blog
August 2005
- Evidence that you visit Starbucks too much
- A Weblog Entry About Weblog Entries
- Photoshop Automation Inquiry
- Contest Winners
- Mighty Mouse Reflections
- The Great Book Giveaway Contest #2
July 2005
- Electronic Mail is Not For Everyone
- New T-Shirt: Document
- Been There, Done That
- Odeo Opens its Doors
- NEWD Meetup: August 4th
- When Floated Figures Attack!
June 2005
- New Book: Bulletproof Web Design
- Ballad Lighter 2.0
- microformats.org Launched
- Figure 1: Current Work/Life Balance
- Recommended: Ben Sherman Sneakers
- SimpleBits T-Shirts Reprinted
May 2005
April 2005
- Weeding Feeds
- Elbow Etiquette
- Feed Confusion
- Boston-Area Web Geeks Meetup
- New Office: The BitCave
- Image Siphoning Fun
- The Cheapening of Music
March 2005
- Apparently, Mouse Pads are Soo 2004
- Belated SXSW Notes
- PC Mini?
- Where's Durstan?
- Stockholm Icon Updates
- SXSW 2005
- DPI for the Pixel Guy
February 2005
- Typecast
- New Feeds Available
- A Note About the Notebook
- Long Winter Remedy
- Office Space (but not the hilarious movie)
January 2005
- Why I Didn't Leave the House Today
- Wine as a Work Enhancer
- Clarification Regarding IE5/Win
- Two Photos of a Cabbage Leaf
- Done Fiddling (for now)
December 2004
- Boston-Area Web Standards Job
- When Can We Hide From IE5/Win?
- The Official SimpleBits T-Shirt
- A Blurry Photo of Will Ferrell
- Winterfresh
November 2004
- I Have Joined a Dodgeball League
- Pixies
- Transmitting
- Commenting Restored
- Mystery Photo Contest Thing
- iTMS Success Story
- Down With Laces
- Urgh! A Music War
- CSS Bug of the Day
- Trees
- UI9
October 2004
- Comments Are Disabled
- Pigs Are Flying
- Author Highlighting in MT
- The Importance of Slippers
- A Pile of Pennies
- What If?
- Televised Backward Compatibility
- Stockholm Icons Now in Two Sizes
- I Wish to Appear in a Major Motion Picture
- Mountain Climbed
September 2004
- BBBetter
- Oops I Quit It Again
- TOevolt
- Double Meanings and Search Terms
- Realities of Self-Employment: Part 1
- CSS Centering 101
- Regarding the Porta-Poti in Maine
- Sluggish Mail, Unsatisfying FTP
August 2004
- Boston Geek Tea Party 2
- Ode to the Breast Pocket
- Shuffle Theory
- Anatomy of an Icon
- Accessibility Progress
- The Motivator
- Icon Set Updates
- SimpleQuiz › Part XVII: Conclusion
- Reality Checkout
- Cycling: The First 100 Miles
- Alton Brown is Cool
- SimpleQuiz › Part XVII: Addresses
- I Bought a Printer
July 2004
- 3 Pixels of Frustration
- Denied
- WSS Update
- The Power in Numbers
- Lance Fever
- Clickable Link Backgrounds
- Bulletproof Slants
- Overcast™: More Stock Web Icons for Sale
- Subscribable Validation
- A Gathering in Boston
June 2004
- Stockholm™ Stock Web Icons for Sale
- Wireless City
- A Validation Tale
- Web Standards Link Bonanza
- And the Winners Are...
- The Great Book Giveaway Contest
- I Wouldn't Call it a Redesign
- Pressed and Ready
- Ten Questions for Me
- Exercising Power and Other Notes
- SimpleQuiz › Part XVI › Conclusion
- Tack, Sverige
May 2004
- To the Baltic and Back
- Reveal
- ESPN Search
- Skoal
- A Better Blogger
- SimpleQuiz › Part XVI: Launching Windows
- Scalable Mini Tabs
- Mountaintop Corners
April 2004
- Black Pepper and Other Notes
- SimpleQuiz › Part XV: Conclusion
- SimpleQuiz › Part XV: Numbered List Pairs
- Trigger Happy Tunes
- Sometimes, A House of Cards
- Open for Business
- Sign My Grill, Won't You?
- SimpleQuiz › Part XIV: Hex Challenge
- Harold Bluetooth Gromson
- Flicker-Free PGA.com
- The Coast is Clear
March 2004
- Now We're Floating
- Save As Replace Trick
- Particle Board Desk
- Standards Around the House
- Battery Powered World
- Hi-Fi Design With CSS Slides
- More SXSW Notes, Photos
- Austin to Boston (by way of Bangor, Maine)
- SXSW Notes
- Poor Parking Interface
- Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook
February 2004
- SimpleQuiz › Part XIII › Empholdics › Conclusion
- SimpleQuiz › Part XIII › Empholdics
- SimpleQuiz › Part XII › Breadcrumbs › Conclusion
- The Obligatory I'm Busy Post
- SXSW 2004
- Purchased Portability
- Under the Iron
- Firefox Tabs
- The Search
- SimpleCode
- SimpleQuiz › Part XII: Breadcrumbs
- Common Sense and Image Lifting
- Sticky-less Hover
- Twice in Three Years
January 2004
- 2004 Bloggies
- I'm Totally Getting Caulked
- There Are Only Tradeoffs
- Trim: Dairy Compartment, Primer: Vegetable Drawer
- Comments are Down
- SimpleQuiz › Part XI › Image Floating › Conclusion
- Mipellssed Wdors
- Southwest Florida
- Faux Columns at A List Apart
- Escaping the Cold Snap
- MacWorld 2004
- SimpleQuiz › Part XI › Image Floating
December 2003
- What I've Done on My Holiday Vacation
- SimpleQuiz › Part X › Multi-Paragraph List Items › Conclusion
- An Old Stove
- Curly Straight
- Mexican Beer
- Better Than a Webcam
- SimpleChili in RCP
- blo.gs
- PowerBook Predictions
- SimpleQuiz › Part X › Multi-Paragraph List Items
November 2003
- Thank You, Neighbor
- Cardboard Carnival
- WaSP Interviews Dan Cederholm
- SprintPCS Redesigns With XHTML/CSS
- Curiosity Cured
- Just Curious
- SimpleViewer
- Panther Notes
- What's Next?
October 2003
- One-upsmanship
- SimpleQuiz › Smart Linking › Conclusion
- SimpleQuiz › Part IX › Smart Linking
- Styling Nested Lists
- Designing in Public
- Mid Pass Filter: Toward a Hackless Future
- Perhaps a Book
- 1918
September 2003
- Accessible Image-Tab Rollovers
- About the Talking About Semantics
- SimpleQuiz › Titles › Conclusion (sort of)
- SimpleQuiz › Part VIII › Titles
- SimpleQuiz › Order Up › Conclusion
- Copy Protection? Boo.
- SimpleQuiz › Part VII › Order Up
- List-o-matic: It's Just Too Easy Now
- SimpleQuiz › Form(atting) › Conclusion
- SimpleQuiz › Part VI › Form(atting)
- SimpleQuiz › Site and Page Titles › Conclusion
- SimpleQuiz › Part V: Site and Page Titles
- Bananaphone and New Sidebars
- Remembering
- SimpleQuiz › When to P › Conclusion
- SimpleQuiz › Part IV: When to P
- SimpleQuiz › Heading and List › Conclusion
- SimpleQuiz › Part III: Heading and List
- SimpleQuiz › A List › Conclusion
- SimpleQuiz › Part II: A List
August 2003
- SimpleQuiz › Headings › Conclusion
- SimpleQuiz › Part I: Headings
- This Validates!
- Still Chewing
- CSS Photo Zoom
- Sort of Unplugged
- Mini-Tab Shapes
- The Spoon Trick
- Dot Dot Dash
- Permalink Progress
- The Conversion
- The Silence is Deafening
- Magic Icons: Image-less Markup Version
- Image-less Markup Version: Part II
- Rushmore to the Rescue
July 2003
- Smart Bookmarks
- Hello It's Todd
- All Hail Red Stripe
- Magic Icons for Lazy People (like me)
- Octodog II: Octopus in Seaweed
- An Opera Reprise
- A Night at the Opera
- Inc.com Redesign
- Netscape No More
- An Update (finally)
June 2003
- Icon Styled Headings
- iSight
- But it's a dry heat
- To the desert and... Goodbye, friend
- Site news is boring... but
- So long, Mac IE
- Pants
- Mini Tabs: The UN-tab, tab
- 5 air conditioned days in Miami
May 2003
- Miami Vice
- A little rain and one moose
- Unplugging
- Thank You
- OL ordering update
- CSS Tabs with Nested Submenus
- Styling the number of an ordered list
- A Garden Apart
- The Libertines
- CSS Zen Garden
- Quick Bits
- More Props for CSS
- CSS Tabs Roundup
- 12 oz. Just Ain't Enough
- Validation and the target Attribute
April 2003
- Link to Your iTunes Tracks
- Free Ice Cream
- iTunes 4
- Lazy Chef: fruit smoothies
- A Touch of Class
- Rolling My Own
- Acrobot
- CSS Playing Cards
- The Most Unbelievably Annoying Thing for a Pedestrian
- Enigmo
- Transitioning to XHTML 2.0
- 45 Degree Swing
- CSS Inheritance
- Bubblegum Altoids? (or... A Post Containing No Acronymns)
- Yahoo! Search... only better
- Which Orange is Cleaner?
- Simplified CSS Tabs Live Example
- Simplified CSS Tabs Trick
- Positive response so far
March 2003
- Faster Company
- My iPod loves to play Fugazi
- Alternate Box Model Hacks
- Why XML Doesn't Suck
- BrowserCam
- Old School Browsing
- Grapefruit + apple + ginger
- Clutter: see album covers in iTunes
- CSS { is-really: cool; }
- Built-in Bold
- Clean Dishes
- Semantic markup on a PDA
- CSS background-image fun
- Big Mac address
- Beastie Boys anti-war song
- Safari v64
- iPod battery life
- Roogle: RSS search engine
- The elusive triple bounce
- A bearable walk home, phantom cars
- The Camino Project
- Namespaces make my head hurt
- Macromedia redesign
- CSS hacks table
- AlltheWeb redesign
- Color Harmonizer
- Microsoft Blogger?
- Doggiebox drum machine
February 2003
- Two bunny ears. One tied shoe.
- New theme switcher
- Welcome to simplebits.com
- Safari will have tabbed browsing
- Photoshop Lomo effect
- Inagurual Bucket Ball tournament
- Tortelloni vs. Tortellini
- Blizzard of '03
- Life of Pi
- Wow.
- Google buys Pyra Labs (Blogger)
- Bucket Ball
- Netscape's DevEdge redesigns
- Konfabulator: whatever you want it to be
- New Christopher Guest movie
- View images favelet
- Dave's live weblogging session at Harvard
- Safari updated
- Find Low Gas Prices
- Cuban Council
- The Simpsons unmasked
- Dude, you're gettin' a cell
- Still cold
- I am 30 years and 11 months younger than Geraldo Rivera
- Proposed multipage view in Safari
- Amazing slideshow from the Milky Way to the nucleus of an oak leaf
- GUI Galaxy
- The Daily Photo Project
- A closer look at Cooler Ranch
- Alton Brown's Sodium Chloride Containment Unit
- Dave Winer weblogging live at Harvard
- Protect those PowerBook screens
- Another Shuttle Lost
January 2003
- Bits and pieces...
- Different CSS border priorities
- Using definition lists for site navigation?
- Cold Snap
- Terry Tate Should Win an Oscar
- RSS Reading in Safari?
- Today's Front Pages From Around the World
- One Click Publishing
- Kasparov vs. Deep Junior
- Dive Into XML
- Even More Cheese
- This is a Title (and not a boring date stamp)
- January 21, 2003
- January 20, 2003
- January 19, 2003
- January 18, 2003
- January 17, 2003
- January 16, 2003
- January 14, 2003
- January 13, 2003
- January 11, 2003
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