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Articles

This is a collection of the articles I've written over the past 8 years, I've edited and tidied them up for clarity. I also got rid of a lot of older, less relevant (read: stupid) articles. I'm going for clean, and quality.

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Responsive is more than just tricky visual design

Alex Holt

​A quick rundown / stream of consciousness about the different use cases and contexts that *should* govern how we think about responsive web design. There is a definite lack in technology preventing responsive design from being the amazing revolution that it should be.

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Convert CSS to SCSS

Alex Holt

One of the things i'm doing at the moment (very slowly) is converting all my CSS to SCSS. I find the maintainability so much better - today i found a tool to convert existing CSS to SCSS. Not bad.

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Section vs Div - HTML5 and Semantics

Alex Holt

​So, this week I've been teaching web design at Shillington College in Sydney. Today we had an interesting discussion about <section> vs <div> for marking up regions on a page in HTML5 - in our case: particularly the main content region (which previously we style as <div id="content">. The debate stemmed from the (somewhat obsessive) idea that <div>'s are evil.

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Responsive Web design and microcopy

Alex Holt

I often harp on about how responsive web design is MORE than just adaptive CSS layouts. I believe that we should be building websites that contextually respond to the device/screen size in question.

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Quick tip: Grounding a site design in Google Chrome

Alex Holt

As Google Chrome’s market share grows it has become necessary (in my pedant’s eyes) to acknowledge that some people will be viewing your site without a status bar and subsequently with no grounding or footer space. In order to combat the unsightly finish this gives to a site, I have decided to include a border-bottom: 3px solid #ccc; in the body style for the new Outside In Media site - http://outsideinmedia.co.uk

A minor issue, but also easily fixed.. so check it out.. and maybe you might want to use it in the future.

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Is code validation important in web design?

Alex Holt

Something I’ve noticed recently which makes me wonder about people’s understanding of how web design works is the designer/developer obsession with validation. I’m definitely not the first to realise this (i’m pretty sure i read an article not so long ago at jeffcroft.com – where Jeff made the same point), but i’ve been surfing the web a bit this weekend, and noticed how rampant this issue really is.

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