My Free July 4^th Online CSS Presentation (That’s On July 2^nd)

June 30, 2009 By admin

This Thursday afternoon at 3p.m., I’ll be holding an online webinar.

In a celebration of USA’s Independence Day and Web design nerdery, I’ll be walking online participants through various strategies for working with CSS to create a rich visual presentation—the US Flag—out of everyday markup.

It’s one of my most popular presentations and it’s free for the first thirteen people that sign up.

The 37 next people who sign up afterwards, it’s $17.76 a ticket. (Get it?)

I hope you attend as I always have a blast with this presentation and I tend to give away some books, too.

Technical Specifications

To attend A More Perfect Union with CSS, you will need a modern web browser (Firefox 1.5, IE 6 & Safari 2 or newer, for example.)
Adobe Flash Player Version 10 is also required. (Most browsers already have Flash installed.) Click on this link to install Flash if you need it.

More CSS Goodness

If you would like to know more about CSS and attend a full day conference without leaving your computer, check out the CSS Summit.

CSS Summit topics and speakers include:

Future CSS & Markup by Molly E. Holzschlag
Tomorrow’s CSS3 Today by Dave McFarland
CSS & Coding Layouts by Stephanie Sullivan
CSS & Flexible Layouts by Zoe Gillenwater
CSS & Web Form Elements by Christopher Schmitt
CSS & Troubleshooting IE6 by Kimberly Blessing
Object Oriented CSS by Nicole Sullivan
CSS & Fluid Typography by Jason Cranford-Teague

Transcribe Your Podcasts

June 26, 2009 By admin

If you are going to do a podcast, spend the money to transcribe each and every podcast.

For the price of US$.75 a minute, you can get your podcast transcribed.

Feeling like balking at the price tag?

Well, if you are serious about podcasting and even own an expensive microphone to get a rich sound, then is no excuse.

With a transcription, you gain so much:

improve search results
accessible content
browser-agnostic content

For the price of some decent hardware, you get to move your content to more eyes–not just ears.

If you aren’t willing to put down the money do that, then why are you publishing in the first place?

AIGA In Control Web Design Workshop Conference 2^nd Day Keynote

June 25, 2009 By admin

On June 12^th, I delivered the keynote for the second day of the AIGA In Control Web Design Workshop Conference in Cincinnati.

Below are my slides from the “amazingr” presentation.

AIGA In Control Web Design Conference Keynote

Nicole Sullivan Joins CSS Summit

June 23, 2009 By admin

I am pleased to announce the final addition to our lineup: Nicole Sullivan joins The CSS Summit to talk about Object Oriented CSS.

Not only does Nicole have a great deal of experience using this technique at Yahoo!, she has been presenting on this topic for the past several months, piquing the curiosity of designers and developers alike.

She joins an already impressive line-up of speakers including Molly E. Holzschlag, Stephanie Sullivan, Jason Cranford Teague, Dave McFarland, and Zoe Mickley Gillenwater.

The current price of the CSS Summit ticket is $139.

However, that ticket price goes up on July 3^rd to $179.00

So, grab your ticket now and save $25 off that price by using my discount code, CSSCHRISS.

Spring BR Conference: A More Perfect Union with CSS

June 16, 2009 By admin

Last week, I traveled to Athens, OH for the annual Spring BR Conference.

I presented about CSS and how to tackle the solution of designing a semantic version of the US Flag, including a fluid layout version.

A More Perfect Union with CSS

Announcing the CSS Summit

June 3, 2009 By admin

The AIGA In Control Web Design Workshop Conference is about a week away. We’re gearing up to have an awesome time covering the basics of Web design development with some of the industry leaders.

If you can’t make it to Cincinnati for In Control, I’m pleased to announce the CSS Summit.

CSS Summit’s goal is to examine a component of Web design and explore it’s many facets that makes it such a compelling and, yes, frustrating technology to use.

Quite frankly, if you interact with CSS for your job, this is the conference for you.

In the CSS Summit we have some amazing speakers like Molly E. Holzschlag, Stephanie Sullivan, Kimberly Blessing, Jason Cranford Teague, Dave McFarland, Zoe Gillenwater and even this guy named Christopher Schmitt.

We have a wide-range of topics:

Future CSS and Markup
Troubleshooting IE6
CSS3
Coding Layouts
Web Typography
Web Form Elements
Flexible Layouts

The CSS Summit will take place online Saturday, July 18 from 9 a.m. to 5p.m ET.

Oh, and the whole thing is being done online. That’s right! No need to book plane tickets or expensive hotels. We’re coming to a computer near you.

So, that’s eight hours of CSS to help you become a CSS ninja all for the very affordable price of $139. (You can even get a $25 off that price by using my discount code, CSSCHRISS.)

Hope to see you there!