Registrations for d.Construct "a grass-roots Web 2.0 conference" are being taken now Sold out. Such luminaries as Andy Budd, Simon Willison and Stuart Langridge will be speaking about all things Web 2.0. There will also be a talk from Boing Boing's and EFF member Cory Doctorow on…
In Doug Bowman's second @media presentation he mentioned utilising classes on the body element to be able to affect the layout of the entire page. This simple technique uses descendant selectors in such a way that an entire page layout can be altered by adding or changing a class applied…
Day two was looking to be exactly what I was looking for from the whole experience of @Media2005. Doug Bowman kicked off with an in-depth presentation discussing the re-design of Blogger, from the processes to actual techniques used. There was a particularly great example of using CSS classes on the…
Well, day one of @Media is over already so here is a brief summary: Jeffrey Zeldman kicked off the proceedings with a historical look at the early days of web standards through to what standards mean today and where they might be going in the future. Following Jeffrey was Joe…
I'm really looking forward to going to the @media conference, Thursday and Friday of this week. It's going to be great to put faces to all of the names of people that are such a big part of the industry. Tim and I are going to be there on the…
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…
Having been creating a lot of webpages recently, I realised that I am so much better off having made the switch to and-coding rather than using WYSIWYG editors. I have used Dreamweaver since version 4 and whilst I don't have anything against it writing pages in a text editor gives…