Review: Smashing CSS

• March 25, 2011
• James Skemp

The following is a review of Smashing CSS, written by Eric A. Meyer. Mixed signals lead to a mixed review I think this may technically be the first Eric Meyer book I've ever read. I've read a number of his articles online, in various forums, but just haven't gone out of my way to read one of his books. So I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting, but I do know it was more then I believe I got.

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Two simple ColdFusion calendar outputs

• October 26, 2009
• James Skemp

Here's two rough drafts of calendars created via ColdFusion (7, but I believe 6.1 would have the same functionality). Tables-based <cfparam name="URL.CalendarMonth" default="#Month(now())#" type="integer" /> <cfparam name="URL.CalendarYear" default="#Year(now())#" type="integer" /> <cfif URL.CalendarMonth LT 1 OR URL.CalendarMonth GT 12> <cfset URL.CalendarMonth = Month(now()) /> </cfif> <cfset VARIABLES.Calendar.StartDate = CreateDate(URL.CalendarYear, URL.CalendarMonth, 1) /> <table style=“width:375px;” summary=“Calendar of events for <cfoutput>#DateFormat(VARIABLES.Calendar.StartDate, ‘mmmm yyyy’)#</cfoutput>."> <thead> <tr> <th colspan=“7”><cfoutput>#DateFormat(VARIABLES.Calendar.StartDate, “mmmm yyyy”)#</cfoutput></th> </tr> <tr> <th>S</th> <th>M</th> <th>T</th> <th>W</th> <th>Th</th> <th>F</th> <th>S</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <cfloop from=“1” to="#DaysInMonth(VARIABLES.

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Dynamic user-controlled layout in a CMS

• May 25, 2008
• James Skemp

This article is meant to hold some of the thoughts that I've been having about allowing a user to control the layout of a page, in particular for use within a content management system (CMS). The system would need to be able to support a user creating templates easily, but hopefully without the use of tables. In the CSS Advanced Layout Module, there is a draft specification for Template-based positioning.

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Found: 40 free HTML/CSS templates

• March 24, 2006
• James Skemp

Alessandro Fulciniti, along with an unnamed number of people, have create 40 CSS-based templates, free for download, available at http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/. They've got near every possible layout that I can think of, along with a number more. Stick on a stylesheet, and you're golden. The only real problem I see is that navigation items should, according to some sources, come before the main content area. After all if the CSS disappears, then you'll still want navigation to come first.

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