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October 23rd, 2006

Falling into the sea

I saw this on No Ideas But Things - and due to me getting on the You Tube bandwagon thought I would post it here. I think the footage of the guy 'high' sky diving is amazing. I find the rest of the site interesting aswell - mainly it's just pictures of stuff - it might even be describes as kipple....

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 ...

June 30th, 2006

PAS78 download for free!

A mentioned this document a couple of months ago and mentioned that it cost some money to have a look at it. Well now it is available for free from the DRC web site. I found the link on Web Standards Project site. I have had a quick browse of it so far but I think it is something I will be browsing now and again to get a feel ...

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!

October 24th, 2005

W3C QA - Quality Tips for Webmasters

W3C QA - Quality Tips for Webmasters – this is quite a good starting point for improving your website. It’s pretty much an FAQ. I was actually asked about GIFs and PNGs the other day and didn’t really know what to say. I looked on wikipedia to find my answer this time!