• Link: Drew Goodmanson

    Drew Goodmanson I recently had the chance to catch up with Drew Goodmanson, a man of many ventures, talents and responsibilities. Drew is a pastor at Kaleo Church in San Diego, California and is also the…

May 8, 2008 8:02am (3 days ago)|

  • Link: 15 Great Examples of Web Typography

    Shared by Natalie
    great list of web sites with good typography

    Quarter 2, 2008

    Welcome to iLT’s second quarter roundup of sites that use type well. It may be that not all the sites listed here…


May 7, 2008 8:29pm (4 days ago)|

The only—I repeat only—reason the labels allow competing stores to have DRM-free tracks is that it’s the only way to get music onto an iPod. Think about that for a moment: Apple’s dominance of the music player business is the actual reason you can buy a DRM-free track from Amazon. If anybody else had a substantial chunk of the player market, the labels would be busy trying to make the other player’s DRM the standard.

Why Apple is More Expensive than Amazon

May 7, 2008 7:04pm (4 days ago)|

May 6, 2008 2:59pm (5 days ago)|

  • Link: Design Artefacts Part 2: Content Inventory

    If you’re redesigning an existing site, and especially if the site is a traditional content driven site, then one of the best ways to start is by performing a content audit. The process involves…

May 5, 2008 6:58pm (6 days ago)|

May 5, 2008 6:58pm (6 days ago)|

  • Link: Designing for the Social Web

    Josh Porter wrote a book about “social design” and it’s out and available now from New Riders. If you’ve ever heard Josh speak or read his blog, you know this will be a great one. Congrats to Mr….

May 5, 2008 11:38am (6 days ago)|

  • Link: Bring Back the Coffee Break

    Posted by Regan

    Why is the coffee served in offices so bad? If not weak and watery, it manages to be overly strong yet characterless. And who knows if that giant urn ever gets a good cleaning?…


May 5, 2008 8:30am (6 days ago)|

  • Link: Grand Theft Auto hates Web 2.0 too!

    “Officials have said that if they hear ‘Web 2.0’ one more time, they will smash someone in the face!” – Weasel News, K100 Radio, GTA IV

    I spent a decent amount of time playing GTA IV over…


May 5, 2008 7:27am (6 days ago)|

Override Inline Styles from the Stylesheet

Just quick-posting this for my own reference to tumblr because I haven’t tested on any other browsers but firefox, BUT… this works:

span[style^=""]{
    color: inherit !important;
    font-size: inherit !important;
}

Add any other properties you like. This essentially tells the browser that if it finds any spans with a style applied, to ignore and inherit from the stylesheet (pretty much).

It’s tough to account for every possible element you could put an inline style on, but with CMS’ particularly Wordpress, the standards is to wrap it in a span.

Why? - because it’s annoying when I see a nice pretty design of mine get torn to shreds by florescent colors in an inline style. I only do this on very rare occasions when I have a client who I know is likely to mark up their content in weird ways and I also know the integrity of their site is important and I want to make sure things stay clean and classy.

It’s also not a bad idea for working with a social network site where you’re allowed to add to the existing stylesheet but can’t actually alter it. And worse, when they put inline styles in, either because they don’t want you messing with that part of your profile, or more common, they just don’t know about web standards. :)

May 3, 2008 8:19pm (1 week ago)|