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Adobe MAX slides and resources

I just finished speaking at Adobe MAX on “Designing with CSS3 Effectively & Efficiently,” the latest iteration of the talk I gave at Web Directions USA, the CSS Summit, and ConvergeSE. I talked about how CSS3 is about more than making things look pretty (though it’s really good at that too). Many CSS3 techniques can reduce your development times, decrease page loading times, improve usability, and increase the adaptability of your pages to different devices (including iPads, iPhones, and Android smart phones). I showed examples of the pieces of CSS3 you can add to your web sites right now and how they might benefit your projects in tangible ways. I included a case study of a real site’s loading time and appearance before and after CSS3, plus an example page built using media queries to improve its appearance and usability at different screen sizes.

You can view the slides on SlideShare, or download the slides here:

Designing with CSS3 Effectively & Efficiently (PDF, 3.3 mb)

Here are several links to related resources that I couldn’t put in the slides but which you might find useful.

Beginner CSS3 Articles

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Web Directions USA slides and resources

I just finished speaking at Web Directions USA on “Effective & Efficient Design with CSS3,” the latest iteration of an the talk I gave at the CSS Summit and ConvergeSE. I talked about how CSS3 is about more than making things look pretty (though it’s really good at that too). Many CSS3 techniques can reduce your development times, decrease page loading times, improve usability, and increase the adaptability of your pages to different devices (including iPads and iPhones). I showed examples of the pieces of CSS3 you can add to your web sites right now and how they might benefit your projects in tangible ways. I included a case study of a real site before and after CSS3, plus an example page built using media queries to improve its appearance and usability at different screen sizes.

You can view the slides on SlideShare, or download the slides here:

Effective & Efficient Design with CSS3 (PDF, 2.9 mb)

Here are several links to related resources that I couldn’t put in the slides but which you might find useful.

Beginner CSS3 Articles

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Highly Maintainable, Efficient, and Optimized CSS

Earlier today, I gave a presentation at Think Vitamin’s HTML & CSS Online Conference entitled “Highly Maintainable, Efficient, and Optimized CSS.” I tried to squeeze as many tips as I could in to cover how to create CSS that is well organized and readable for teams to work on together as well as you to maintain later, while still keeping efficiency in mind. The slides are up on Slideshare, but you can also download them in their full glory here:

Highly Maintainable, Efficient, and Optimized CSS (PDF, 1 mb)

Here are links to just a few of the hundreds of related resources I could link to!

Maintainability

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