I stumbled across a real gem today: Tips for writers and designers from HTML wizard David Siegel. David is driving forward the boundaries of web design and has a treasure trove of tips for aspiring web developers. Did you know you could use single pixel gifs to achieve perfect control over your layouts?
The companion site for David’s book Creating Killer Web Sites has yet more cutting edge advice. The invisible table trick is particularly impressive - I had only ever thought of tables as boring tools for presenting tabular data, but David turns web design on its head and shows how they can be used to lay out pages in ways I’d never even imagined!
David really shows how to break away from the limitations of HTML as a structural markup language. The web will never be the same again!
April 1st, 2004 at 2:37 am
The cool thing is the single pixel gif gets cached, so this will really speed your site up.
April 1st, 2004 at 3:00 am
LOL…The best part is here: http://www.dsiegel.com/
Last updated 1998…
April 1st, 2004 at 3:33 am
Hey guys, i already knew that cool spacer.gif trick. I also know that if i renamed all my spacer.gif images to spc.gif, i could have saved some bandwidth, but i dont! I prefer the spacer.gif naming, cos it’s more semantically correct.
April 1st, 2004 at 4:01 am
Wow! I had no idea all of his sites were still out there. I’m having some rather unpleasant flashbacks right now.
April 1st, 2004 at 5:19 am
It’s a good thing I saw the date when I read this… :->
April 1st, 2004 at 5:59 am
Another way which i know is being used on a busy website to help server load and page loading is by using the img tag but missing out the src and make sure the alt=”" is included. And has worked very well. Just take a look at http://www.faceparty.com
April 1st, 2004 at 6:22 am
Last updated in… 1998! It must be bleeding-edge, then… ;)
April 1st, 2004 at 8:03 am
LOL! Aprils! Tables! Cutting edge indeed!
April 1st, 2004 at 8:18 am
Everyone around here has a severe case of April Fool fever :)
April 1st, 2004 at 10:18 am
>> The companion site for David’s book Creating Killer Web Sites has yet more cutting edge advice
You must be fu**ing kidding us. The first edition of “Creating Killer Web Sites” was published in 1997. I have an edition myself of a couple of years later and back then it was already outdated.
Designing with pixel images and tables is probably the worst advice you could have ever given.
April 1st, 2004 at 11:29 am
Check out the “Browser Offsets” section - this is possibly the only place on the Web that I’ve ever seen the phrase:
“Internet Explorer does it right”
April 1st, 2004 at 12:10 pm
Happy April Fools to you to Simon :) That was the best one today I think! I was freakin’ for a second ;p
April 1st, 2004 at 12:40 pm
I think it’s hilarious that you post this. I was looking through some old (c. 1998) Netscape bookmarks of mine and found a link to Siegel’s site. It’s nice to see great minds finally get the respect they are due!
April 1st, 2004 at 1:01 pm
I can see David Siegel and David Brooks collaborating: _Killer Websites for Neocons_.
They’ll make millions.
April 8th, 2004 at 1:31 am
Personally, I use Photoshop 3.0.
David Siegel
Time to downgrade…:)
April 17th, 2004 at 12:48 am
Listen SImon, no one, and I mean NO ONE, gets the right to call himself an expert on Dave Siegel, until s/he read G. Beato’s famous “Dave Siegel Guide to Authomythology”, curretnöyt at http://www.soundbitten.com/siegel.html