Off to Portugal
Well I'm afraid I will be leaving you all for a week or so to go to the sunnier climes of Portugal. As some of you know the Mrs. is from Portugal and I will be going to meet her and Emma out there. If any of you know any…
Revenge of the Sith
Well I'm off to see revenge of the Sith at half past midnight tonight. I'll be drinking plenty of coffee before I get there - and from what I've heard it's action packed so I can leave the matchsticks at home. Let us also hope I don't get arrested wearing…
A beginner's guide to CSS hack avoidance
Whilst working on some CSS designs recently I realised that by zeroing the padding and margin of various elements in I was avoiding my pages having major differences when viewed in different browsers. Often these differences in rendering are caused by the default styles applied to pages by the browser.…
Leaving standards at the door?
When I started my current job, I guessed that I would have to leave my own thoughts on standards at the door, as the majority of work was being done using html 4 loose, with table layouts, part external/part inline styles and inline javascript (uggghhh!). 4-5 months later and…
Veerle's highpass filter action for Photoshop
Thanks to Veerle, here are some Photoshop Actions (Suitable for CS and 7.0) to try out Veerle's highpass filter technique for sharpening resized graphics. Just download them, unzip them and find the Actions window. Click the Arrow at the top right and select "Load actions". Point the dialog to…
CSS Rebooted
I am glad the day has finally come, I've been working really hard to get something together for the May 1st Reboot/CSS Reboot in time. I spent alot of time trying out different designs and playing around with layouts before settling on this left aligned set-up. I wanted to…
Google Maps for the UK launched
Google has launched Google maps for the UK as well as Google local. Whilst Google maps is not a new feature it is certainly nice to see it in action for the places that you know. I think that with it's directions feature and clean graphical interface it will probably…
Firefox 1.5 Launched
Firefox 1.5 was released late last night and according to some sources is not any different to the RC3 version. I had waited for the official release so this is my first look at the new version. Installation There were quite a few extensions that didn’t work with…