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 ...

Information Architecture - or just plain common sense??

Saturday, February 16th, 2008 131 views

Back in the days when we were all still getting used to web 1.0 and google was just another search engine, I used to run free web clubs on Sunday afternoons for my work colleagues. At these clubs, I'd share my emerging knowledge about the web. And to give the sessions ...

The beginning of a long journey

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 328 views

After months of delays, the re-build of my website London for Free is finally underway. I know it will be a struggle as I try to update my web skills, get my head around new technologies (AJAX, anyone?) and remind myself of "old" ones (literally dusting off my old PHP manuals). I'm ...