Welcome to the first SDC “Did you know?” session. I thought this would be a better way of hitting a few bullet points. Better, at least, than my typical rambling narrative style.
- Did you know we have six judges confirmed already?
- Just check out the About the Judges page. It’s an excellent panel, especially since it’s only just over 50% complete.
- So I should ask, do you have any recommendations for judges from outside the US?
- Yes, I know we have four judges just from the US. I’d really like to get some from outside our borders, but it appears I don’t know terribly much about those design communities. We’re getting lots of hits from Europe (especially France) and South America, so I’d love a couple judges from both of those regions. Help?
- Did you notice that the Sandbox is actively being developed and v0.9.3 is available?
- Well, not such a big deal for designers. The 0.9.x strand of the Sandbox won’t feature any markup or other changes that would affect designs (more info), eg., no class name changes or markup restructuring. Now the Sandbox is totally translatable, thanks greatly to Morten at wordpress.dk. Enjoy in any language! Get Sandbox v0.9.x.
- Did you know that you can download Safari for Windows?
- Odd as it may seem to some, you can run Safari on Windows. Maybe not the best choice for browsing, but good enough for testing designs for that 1% user base.
- And did you know that you can get fast previews of IE just with your browser?
- If you ever tire of waiting in four-hour queues at browsershots.org just for IE, give IE NetRendered a shot. Maybe not a pretty, but definitely faster.
- Did you know that the Sandbox Designs Competition timeline is available as a calendar?
- That’s right. The dates on the pages here are hEvents, but the SDC Calendar is also available. You can also get XML and ICS versions.
- Did you also know that sndbx.org is laced with Microformats through-and-through?
- While not obvious (and that’s part of the beauty of Microformats), all the judges’ information are hCards, all the dates are hEvents, etc. If you’re a Firefox user, you should check out the Operator extention. Or just wait for Firefox 3: it has many Microformats accessibility features built in. Just another reason to start building now on the Sandbox.
So what other burning questions do you have? Well, maybe others have them too. Why not check out the Sandbox Forums to see what’s already been asked and answered.
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Well, I have a recommendation, not for a judge, but for the judges. One reason that I stick with k2 (and an older version, at that) is how it accommodates images.
No matter the actual size of the image or if I forget to include sizing, the theme places it nicely on the front page.
The design is transparent, but I have come to appreciate it more and more over time, and Internet, at that, not Greek Isle time, DeepPhat.
That’s a case of the missing
div#content{overflow:hidden;}, jcwinnie. We have some large, full-size images in our dummy content, so hopefully the designers will accommodate users’ needs for robust style sheets.that version of k2’s also got
.entry-content img { max-width: 100%; }, which is a nice trick. there’s also some cool JS that’ll do the same thing for IE6.And good old Andy wrote a whole post on defective image widths in themes, for yet further reading.
yeah, unfortunately smackfoo’s site is down, he had the JS version. you can see it in my joshuaink port.
also, your code up above should say
hidden, not hideYes,
hiddenindeed. Note that I am neither entering this comp with a CSS design nor judging the final designs.I’m pleased to see this contest, but I take exception to the 1% comment. The Mac community is 22 million 10.4 users strong and Apple has a proven 6% market. While you may disdain Macs, I strongly urge you to accommodate that market. Also of note, Safari 3 for Windows and Mac renders my site correctly, where 2.x didn’t.
Thanks for coming by, Tyler. You’ll see in the judging procedures that Safari is part of the brief. Yes, it is one of the important browsers for designers.
And I didn’t just pull the 1% thing out of the air, but I will correct myself by correcting it to 1.5%, according to the W3. I wasn’t slighting the Mac community. I use a Mac at work and a PC at home.