Small changes to Snooch CSS
December 10, 2003
Some minor changes to the Snooch CSS to ensure Screen and Print stylesheets are working correctly.
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Arriva Trains site launched with Web Standards
December 08, 2003
Imaginet launched the Arriva Trains Wales website yesterday using Standards Based design for markup and layout. all credit to them, it looks good, works well cross browser. There’s a few bugs, the pages don’t validate as XHTML Strict although content or the odd tag is producing the errors - nothing major.
It’s good to see a major player such as Imaginet here in Cardiff launching a site like this. All credit to them.
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OSX 10.3 Review
December 08, 2003
“Mac OS X version 10.3 “Panther” contains over 150 new features and provides significant enhancements to its modern, UNIX-based foundation...” So goes the blurb from Apple. After installing OS X about 3 weeks ago I have to say it’s an improvement on 10.2 but not worth the upgrade price of ?99. However, it is worth the upgrade if you’re jumping from OS9. Now would be a good time to upgrade.
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Rounded corners in CSS
December 05, 2003
How many times have you heard “I’m sick of websites looking boxy”, no? Well, I get it almost every week. Once again ALA come up with the goods with a fantastic article of creating rounded corners using css and semantic markup.
What’s really interesting here is when the user’s font size is increased, the thing doesn’t break at all! I had to get up to about 300% of the original specified font size for the corners to start degrading. Thing is, it wasn’t the corners that degraded - it was the type within the div (breaking out of the div). Very nice.
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Decorate your Mac!
December 05, 2003
Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat,
Decorate your Mac desktop with this lovely little app,
It’s free, you can make a screensaver out of it,
Ok, granted, it is a bit s**t.
Nice poem eh?
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Ch… Ch… Changes
December 03, 2003
Just a few little changes on Snooch today. I’ve finally got round to makig a stylesheet switcher. I toyed with using a php switcher but I only needed something basic to supply a text only alternative. I opted for using a javascript version i’d seen on ALA. It’s an old switcher but it does the job.
And as it’s Christmas soon, i’ve added some snow for that extra christmassy feel. Aw… nice…
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Good resource for Movable Type
November 26, 2003
Having just made some tweaks to the way MT works with this site, i’d thought i’d mention where I got the good advice from. The Girlie Matters is a great site for lots of MT tips, hacks and tricks.
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Keeping Navigation Current with PHP
November 24, 2003
Good article on ALA abut consistent current navigation using php variables as page types. It’s one of those articles you read and go, “oh yeah” that makes sense.
It’s something that i’ve wrangled with for a while - how to get CSS down-states from just one php include. This shows you how.
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