One week to launch

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 100 views

After two months, the site is now almost ready to go live. This weekend I've been applying the finishing touches to it. All the content is now done apart from one page which I need to give a bit of thought to - the sitemap for visitors (not to be confused ...

Print-only stylesheets and the firefox bug

Saturday, March 1st, 2008 336 views

One of the big benefits of using CSS-based design for a site is the fact that you can control the layout of printed pages. Instead of users having to print out exactly what they see on screen, you can get rid of stuff like nav, sidebars and plug-ins from pages, enabling ...

The great CSS v IE6 challenge

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 101 views

Aaaarggggghhhhh - talk about a marriage made in hell. Everything worked so perfectly (ok, maybe not quite) in IE on my current site but I appreciate the days of table based layouts are limited. Once upon a time, good old tables within tables within tables sprinkled with a few one-pixel gifs ...