CSS Drop Column Layout

Simon Collison posted an article about his new fixed width 3-column layout which is made possible with a dash of javascript to alter the layout based on the resolution of the client's window. For more on Simon's layout see this post [http://www.collylogic.com/?/comments/…

Partial Image Replacement

Recently Tim [http://www.nefariousdesigns.co.uk] was looking for opinions on the most semantic way to mark up the title and strapline of an author's website that he is working on. The text looked something like this; Stuart Colville, Author of "I'm a big…

London Geek Dinner with Dave Shea

I really enjoyed the Geek Dinner [http://www.geekdinner.co.uk] in London last night. Guest of honour was Dave Shea [http://www.mezzoblue.com] who has been over here recently speaking at a Carson workshop [http://www.carsonworkshops.com/design-dev/shea/19JAN2006.html]. It was good to met up…

Opera Mini Launched

Opera Mini [http://mini.opera.com] has been launched worldwide earlier on today. I've been using Opera mobile [http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/] for a while on my Nokia 6600 and it's so much better than the Nokia's built in browser. To test…

Google Earth For Mac

Google have launched a version of Google Earth for mac. Apparently this version wipes the floor with the leaked version in terms of performance. If you were waiting to get a bit of Google earth goodness for your mac then now's the time. Download Google Earth [http://earth.…

Web Standards Survival Handbook Part One

When I started my current job, Rentokil's web development team were producing non-semantic, part table-based, with a mixture of CSS with in-line styling and font tags. As I had not been there long I didn't want to be too pushy about my own ideas so I…

Intel Macs Unleashed

I stayed up late last night watching the keynote [http://macworld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/mw/index.html] to find out all of the juicy details about Apple's latest announcements: I like the idea of the new FM radio remote [http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/…

Web 2.0 data recovery

If you think about the growth of web 2.0 applications and think about how you yourself are using these tools from day to day you begin to realise that we are trusting a lot of data to these services. With every new service we sign up with we are…