View from the Potting Shed

Screenshot of the new code, with debugging background colours (greys) showing.
I’ve spent much of today working on an XHTML/CSS code rewrite for the University of St Andrews website.
Based on feedback from staff and students, having used the site for the best part of the last year and the desire to make the code more robust […]

I’ve got to a point working on my current Website design project where I’m needing to

test the code in a variety of browsers
keep track of which browsers still have issues with the code

Toolbar
So I took my own advice and created a new toolbar which I now have as part of my main toolbar, with links […]

Today (Wednesday 09 April 2008) is CSS Naked Day.
Which is why the page design has disappeared and you’re currently looking at fairly plain, old school web page.
Unless of course you’re reading this in your RSS client of choice.
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use […]

One of the smaller Web projects that I’ve been working on over the last few months is a new website for my parents-in-law, Peter and Dorothy Neilson: Sacred space at Linne Bheag.
Weebly
It’s built using Weebly, which is a really simple to use content management system.
Weebly is wonderfully easy to use, even easier to use than […]

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This […]

Fife on wheels
I can’t remember … much actually! No, I can’t remember any other new year where I’ve been clobbered with quite so many bugs as this one.
I seem to have had at least one new stomach bug or virus each month. Some months I was greedy and had at least two.
So I […]

How can it be the end of March already?!
It’s not just me, is it? Easter felt infeasibly early this year. I happened before the clocks went forward (from GMT to BST). In fact, it happened before it had even stopped snowing!
And now that Easter is passed, Jesus has risen again (Alleluia!) and in […]