Archive for the 'css' Category

July 7th, 2006

From XHTML/CSS to WordPress

I wish I'd seen this before I redesigned and rebuilt this blog. Which by the way might still be teething a bit. At some point I will detail the various things I have done in more detail. I should include a link to the icons I used. I would like to do my own but these days I never have time to play with ...
June 30th, 2006

Turning off dotted lines in Firefox

Came across a small problem in Firefox last week. I had a list and was using 'text-indent: -5000px' in the css to do some image replacement. It's a bit weird because it made the list element quite wide so when you clicked the dotted lines that show where are clicking seemed to stretch all the way across the page. Anyway to fix it first of all I found Fixing the Fox ...
June 30th, 2006

DTI website

Again this is something I saw on the WaSP site. In the past I did some work on some of the DFES sites and they had standards that we had to work to and we did mainly because it was something I was interested in and it was something that was becoming a bigger issue. The work I did was about two years ago. I remember they were going ...
April 19th, 2006

Bite Size Standards

Bite Size Standards - again another site a bit like A List Apart although more blog like. It looks a bit like an older version A List Apart from perhaps a couple of years ago - anyway I haven't really looked at it properly yet but it looks promising!
April 19th, 2006

Vitamin

I have just come across Vitamin - it looks pretty cool a bit like A List Apart but perhaps not quite so poncy - it generally has a more dynamic feel to it and that's just looking at the homepage!
February 8th, 2006

Over to wordpress

I have decided to move over to wordpress although bblog is pretty easy to use it has a problem with spam comments - which I think I will get with wordpress at some point but I think as wordpress is a bit more mature I think it might cope a bit better. There seem to be copious amounts of plugins around for it although it is not as easy ...
November 10th, 2005

Peek-a-boo IE6 Bug

Peek-a-boo IE6 Bug – I always forget about this particular bug but I come across it all the time. It seems to get mentioned a lot on the CSS list This page gives a good idea of how to fix it. I always need to google for it but I always find the same page!
November 10th, 2005

Perfect clearer

Well may be not perfect but nearly there: .clearer{ clear: both; height: 0; font-size: 1px; line-height: 0; } Apply it as: When overlow: hidden doesn’t work or when you are testing IE 6 this does the job. I haven’t tested it extensivley yet but it seems ok so far. Other handy references:Clearing methodsSuper simple clearing floats
October 22nd, 2005

Cleaning up hacks

Cleaning up hacks – I have seen few posts mentioning this. My answer is Surgical Correction Strategy. This involves having one hack free style sheet that you can use with browsers that work and then have others for the ones that don’t (IE5-6 are the ones I generally try and support). If a new browser comes out that supports the standards properly then it isn’t a problem as ...
March 11th, 2005

CSS Forms

CSS Forms – I found this article about creating css forms on generally a very informative website. It is pretty straight forward. You have your LABEL tag and your INPUT tag. You give them both a width, display them as blocks and float them left. Add a bottom margin and clear the breaks you out between the lines and bobs you uncle. Item 1 label,input ...

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  • Sales Guy vs. Web Dude

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    These days, a good radio station is hard to come by and CDs are $20 a pop. So, what's a music lover to do? Turn to the Internet, of course, where you can find music-streaming services that are not only free and legal (like all radio) but customizable.

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  • A cross between a motorcycle, a Segway and 'Star Wars'

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