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 […]
A few months back I sent a friend of mine, Peter, was looking for a book about building websites. So I sent him my copy of HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible by Bryan Pfaffenberger et al.
I didn’t really use it very often, relying now on the O’Reilly definitive guides for XHTML and CSS. […]
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Sorry about the lack of proper blogging over the last few days. I’ll tell you what I’ve been doing: I’m looking for the right content management software for a website project I’m working on.
So I’m spending the evenings either trawling through web pages of documentation, trawling through pages of books about specific content […]
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 […]
Jane and I were looking online to see where we might spend a couple of nights this week. So we checked out the Visit Scotland website for accommodation in the Highlands.
Location/Map
We found a nice place called Braelangwell House on The Black Isle, clicked on the “Location/Map” button and were faced with this sorry excuse […]
In the words of The Fast Show: This week I are been mostly testing websites in different browsers.
Using Google Analytics
Thanks to our use of the ever-useful Google Analytics I can see that the top five browsers to visit the University website are:
Internet Explorer - 74.01%
Firefox - 17.78%
Safari - 6.65%
Netscape - 0.76%
Opera - 0.44%
Within the Google […]
I’m all for not discriminating people on account of their age, but surely InterVideo are taking it a little too far.
I clicked on the InterVideo WinDVD version 5 link on my work PC this afternoon and this being the first time I’d done this was invited to register the product. I agreed and the […]
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Hi, I'm Gareth J M Saunders, 36 years old, 6' 4", married to Jane, I'm a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church and have a passion for Mah Jong, Psion PDAs and web design.
I am employed as the Assistant Information Architect / Web Manager at the University of St Andrews.
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