Using Squarespace Cover Pages for Your Photography Portfolio
It is a monumental challenge for photographers to present their images. Once you have a reasonable size body of work, it must be presented in a thoughtful way if you want people to be able to enjoy your photography online. Squarespace Cover Pages are a great way to provide a doorway.
Squarespace 7 Announced
Squarespace 7 is a brand new interface for our content management system that greatly enhances the usability of our existing web publishing platform. Squarespace 7 makes some significant design improvements to the site management features of Squarespace 6, but most of it will feel familiar if you've used Squarespace in the past two years. You can easily enable Squarespace 7 for your existing site by turning on a simple toggle.
The Sidebar in Your Blog is Hot Garbage
With more than a decade working in the Internet industry, trust me when I say that sidebars are mostly ignored, certainly distracting and little more than a link garbage dump.
Rolling Your Own Custom Counters for Ordered Lists
Web designers use lists all the time. When you want to customize the generated content (the numbers) more than just font size or color, it can be challenging. This tip is about turning off the auto-generated counter and recreating your own - and styling them the way you like.
On CSS3: ‘Graceful Degradation’ or ‘Progressive Enhancement’
To me, the two terms ‘Graceful Degradation’ & ‘Progressive Enhancement’ are a half-full, half-empty kind of thing. Regardless of your perspective, the idea is rock solid; use modern coding techniques, but never at usabilities expense.
The Mobile Web is Different From the Regular Web
A well thought out mobile website can be much more useful - in a truly meaningful way - than most of us understand. This whole “Mobile Web” thing is going to change the way we interact with companies, vendors, customers & even our own internal departments.