View from the Potting Shed

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 […]

I was chatting with a friend online this evening (hello Steve!) about web coding, and I offered him my three favourite add-ons for Mozilla Firefox which I find absolutely essential for coding and debugging HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Work in Firefox, debug in IE
When developing code I tend to always work with Firefox first. When […]

Screenshot of web code, as viewed in the excellent Firebug add-on for Mozilla Firefox.
These last couple of weeks I’ve spent much of time, both at home and work, puzzling over a coding project I’m currently working on at the University; which is partly why my blogging activity has been more intermittent than usual.
Baseline browsers
For this […]

Yesterday I travelled through to Glasgow (by railway) to attend the Scottish Web Folk forum meeting at the University of Strathclyde.
The Scottish Web Folk group is an open forum for all the web managers and web developers from the 22 Scottish Higher Education Institutions. Yesterday’s meeting was attended by representatives from

Bell College
Queen Margaret University College
Scottish […]

Spot the difference:

In the three years since Jeffrey Zeldman wrote his first edition of Designing With Web Standards his book cover has now turned green, the content has been printed in full technicolour and it appears (from the cover photo at least) that he now looks like Bob Carolgees in a beanie hat!
My copy […]

Snippet of CSS code.
For those who’ve ever wanted to get into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) coding, but never quite got around to it, or couldn’t quite grasp what it was all about; or perhaps you just want to know what it is that some of us coders are going on about, Albino Blacksheep’s Live Design […]