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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The antibiotics appear to be beginning to work, although I’m predictably now feeling a little rougher around the edges and more tired. But nothing that a handful of pills and a month in bed won’t fix!
Sadly, that’s not going to happen though.
Job satisfaction
Work is incredibly busy just now. (When is it not?) But […]

Transcending CSS: the fine art of web design by Andy Clarke is one of the best books about cascading style sheets (CSS) that I’ve read in a long time.
As a designer Andy Clarke has produced a book that’s far from the hundreds of other dull books on CSS which are packed full of dry code […]

The latest version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8, I’m sorry to report, broke a couple of our web pages yesterday.
UPDATE: This problem has now been fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.9: see Firefox 2.0.0.8 update to be updated
I noticed it just as I was about to go out for lunch. I was checking out a page on the […]

This is my latest favourite ‘toy’ that I’m playing with just now. Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor is a Dreamweaver Extension (for DW8 or DW CS3) from WebAssist developed in collaboration with the CSS guru himself. It’s not cheap, though: normal price is US $149.99, although I got it on special offer via .net magazine for […]