Archive - August, 2003

Out of the Office

August 31 1 Comment Category: Really Old Posts

I’m off to Tunisia for a week today, I just thought that I’d leave a small message for some of the regular readers (and any new ones) to let you know I’ll be adding new posts from 10th September, and a little later than that I hope to be able to update the design and [...]

Friday Football Fun #2

August 29 4 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

To predict the outcome of this weeks games is going to be pretty hard considering most teams are facing almost equal opposition. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are quite a few draws this weekend… but seeing as I got it so wrong last week, this week couldn’t be any worse… could it?
The big game [...]

Simple Quiz – Coding, Semantics & Structure

August 29 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

In light of Kottke’s recent discussion on W3C web standards and semantics, Dan Cederholm has began to pose a series of questions on the very same subject.
The first question, covering header techniques, drew some very interesting responses that clearly show how people share differing and alternate opinions on the subject.
I’ll be following his SimpleQuiz with [...]

FeedDemon 1.0 Beta 5

August 27 2 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

Nick has released another beta version of FeedDemon, the RSS reader for Windows. You can download the beta here, but make sure to read the release notes beforehand.
If your confortable using beta software, then this is the RSS reader for the windows platform!

Containing Floats

August 27 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Eric Meyer publishes an excellent article that explains the ideas behind CSS floats and also points us in the direction of the secret to containing floats.

Usability 101

August 26 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Usability 101: the What, Why, How and Where is the latest column by UseIt.com’s Jakob Nielsen.
The article covers all the basics facts of usability and is an ideal starting point for many businesses and individuals wanting to learn more about the process of usability testing.

CSS Photo Zoom

August 25 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

SimpleBits CSS Photo Zoom is a another practical use of CSS rollovers, but this time Dan Cederholm takes it to another level to showcase an image zoom trick using a:hover. Whats even more impressive is that any text around the image automatically reflows around the zoomed image.

Friday Football Fun

August 22 10 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

It’s Friday, and every week I hope to be able to give my predictions for the weekends Premiership football games. This week the biggest game of the weekend has to be Manchester United vs Newcastle United. I hope, and think, that Newcastle can pull off a surprise win this weekend against the reigning champions, but [...]

Web-Graphics.com returns

August 21 Comments Off Category: Really Old Posts

Web-Graphics.com is back… this time it’s bigger and better than ever, go ahead and read all about the new look.
It now sport a gorgeous right aligned design that simply oozes with class, and to celebrate the re-opening they provide a review of web-based colour pickers, covering a staggering 37! (via TopStyle Blog)
Great work guys, good [...]

Movable Type – Plugins, URLS, templates

August 21 4 Comments Category: Really Old Posts

It seems like yesterdays questions were answered on other blogs.
zlog.co.uk posts a list of Essential Plugins for Moveable Type and also rants about “Clean URLs”.
Empty Pages has an easy to understand list of Movable Type tags along with examples.
MT Support has an write-up on the template and tag philosophy of MT, an article explaining MT [...]