Archive for May, 2006

FireBug extension for Firefox

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Fire­Bug a fire­fox exten­sion that one day might chal­lenge web developer as the most use­ful fire­fox exten­sion in my tool­box. A heap of the tools to poke, prod, and mon­itor your JavaS­cript, CSS, HTML and Ajax includ­ing a debug­ger, error con­sole, com­mand line, and a vari­ety of inspect­ors. I can not get it to do everything it is sup­posed to like live edit­ting of the HTML, but even so the inspect­ors are well worth the download.

Flash and the fluid elastic design

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

or the issues using flash for vec­tor graph­ics that scale rel­at­ive to page design as seen by Nick.

You can use SWFob­ject or Unob­trus­ive Flash Objects to get around the Eolas pat­ent issue in IE and provid­ing con­tent for browsers without flash plu­gin or the required ver­sion of the flash plu­gin. How­ever, there are a num­ber of prob­lems in using Flash for scal­ing vec­tor graphics:

How I work

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

Myles chal­lenged all of the West­coast­b­log­gers to answer the same ques­tions on their blogs, so far Kay has risen to the occas­sion, here are my answers:

Wanted: suggestions for a puppy name

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

our little darling with her 6 black and white litter mates
That act­ive two week old blue merle bor­der col­lie puppy (top right) clam­ber­ing over her sleep­ing black and white broth­ers and sis­ters will be ours in four or so weeks time. At the moment we are stumped for a name and are hop­ing for suggestions.

Web Directions 06

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

The offical announce­ment has not been made, but WD06 site is now oper­at­ing (see the menu of the right hand side). I have just gone and booked and paid for my ticket. The whole kit and kaboodle, two work­shops, break­fast will Molly and the conference.

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The fluid elastic reboot

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Why is this web­site so stretchy and orange. A look at the how and why of the fluid elastic redesign.

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CSS reboot havok

Monday, May 1st, 2006

If you haven’t noticed this site has had a CSS reboot and a little tweak­ing of the Word­Press tem­plates. It is a par­tially a proof of concept (or fail­ure in concept if you use a Mac) and very much a work in pro­gress. Let me know if find any prob­lems and please stretch the pages by vary­ing your browser width (and the header still looks good at 300% @ 3000 pixels).

Go visit CSS Reboot and you can vote for me and any of the other 1500 rebooters.

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