Web design tools listings
This article has a wealth of links to web design tools and utilities you WILL find useful. These are tools I have found, and use myself, not ones I have created! All these tools run in the browser, and...
View ArticleMy day of buggy hell with IE – a css story
As you may well be aware, this has been a pretty hectic week for me, trying to finish all my projects before I leave to go on a well earned holiday. The main thing on my agenda was the blue anvil...
View ArticleHow to…use conditional comments
Conditional comments have been part of internet explorer since version 5, but a lot of programmers ignore them. This article teaches the basics of using conditional comments, and shows some examples of...
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Going elastic with ems, layout techniques
Most sites on the web are coded using pixels for widths, which is acceptable, however these sites make it harder for users with poor eyesight to increase the text size whilst keeping the layout in...
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Experiments with floats: whats the best method of clearance?
When developing websites there is one thing I have never kept consistent; the method of clearing floats. It seems every project I take, I seem to do it a different way, well Its about time I sorted it...
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Using Image replacement techniques
This week Ive been trying out a lot of image replacement techniques in main headings, and their are quite a few available. If you have a graphical header logo on a website, with the sites name, often...
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miniXFN Icon set & XFN CSS implementation
XFN (XHTML Friends Network) is a microformat which represents relationships between people with hyperlinks and the use of a simple HTML tag. They can represent colleagues, contacts, sweethearts,...
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Creating ‘Web 2.0′ Layouts using strips
I’ve seen the ‘web 2.0′ layout (full width background, centred content) done in some pretty wacky and different ways, the worst being a background image and then fixed height sections laid on top (if...
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Including CSS & JavaScript in wordpress posts using Custom Fields
If you have ever tried to include code in a wordpress post you may have gone through hell trying to get it to output correctly; WordPress’ built in functions for formatting text (autop and texturize)...
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