Archive for September, 2005

The first part of WE05 was the Jef­frey Veen work­shop Design­ing the Next Gen­er­a­tion of Web Applic­a­tions. At first I was wor­ried with terms like web applic­a­tion, AJAX, APIs etc. being ban­died about that this work­shop was going to be tech­nical, and from talk­ing to my to other attendees they had the same concerns.

Was it worth­while .….. Yes

Time to go pack for Web Essen­tials 2005 if you are there and see a guy with his right arm in a sling and a couple of facial pier­cings come over and say hi, that is me. [.……]

I should of been more more spe­cific in my About em com­ment­ary that 1 em = 16 pixels as long as you are using a mod­ern browser and have not changed the default font size.

So I did more exper­i­ment­ing with ems and dif­fer­ent fonts

I n order to learn more about Word­Press and to try and limit my exper­i­ment­a­tions on the live server, I decided to run a duplic­ate copy of this blog on my PowerBook.

Everything was fairly easy, except Permalinks not work­ing, it had to do with mod_write mod­ule on my Apache server

This is the first in a series of art­icles on what most people refer to as elastic
lay­outs, though I prefer the term pro­por­tional layouts.

What is a em?

Mark Boulton has writ­ten a num­ber of good art­icles on design­ing with the grid system

Today’s art­icle was the one I was most look­ing for­ward to flex­ible grids unfor­tu­nately the example was a mix of fluid and elastic web design and it fell down at some font sizes. (Some of it to do with Moz­illa and how it cal­cu­lates sizes). So I cre­ated a true elastic ver­sion which much like this blog, var­ies the font size depend­ing on browser width, to cre­ate a page that fills the browser.

Why do I blog?

Well it is all Tommy Ols­son’s fault.

I read a dozen or more blogs on web stand­ards, CSS, XHTML etc on a daily basis, and .…