View from the Potting Shed

Right twin at 19 weeks
In many ways 2008 has been a very odd year for me, for many reasons. Of course it opened with the IVF procedures that led to Jane discovering that she was pregnant, that led to us discovering that she was pregnant with twins.
During the last six months we’ve been filled […]

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 […]

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 […]

Late last week the Borders Scrap Store website was finally launched. I had fun designing and building it. Here are a few features that I’m proud about:
Dynamic site on a static host
The site is built using XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2 and hosted on a static hosting account. In order to allow the staff […]

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 […]