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.
Why is this website so stretchy and orange. A look at the how and why of the fluid elastic redesign.
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.
tagged cssreboot css reboot elastic design
Like at least 12001500 other souls I was planning a brand new CSS and a few tweaks under the hood for May 1. Unfortunately due to some problems and the odd bug, the revamp will not occur for at least a couple of days. I threw caution (and sleep) to the wind and made the May 1 deadline.
Influnces are very mixed, the work of artist Brent Harris …
tagged cssreboot failed cssreboot
I didn’t freeze or freak out when I gave my presentation to the Perth Web Standards Group, I actually enjoyed it. So I jumped at invitation to do another presentation in a few months time. The question, is what topic? The three that spring to mind are:
I have been podcast, the audio (mp3 5Mb 22minutes) and transcript to go with my slides for the presentation button the forgotten element.
tagged button buttons button element accessible buttons input element
Yes I know it is Annual CSS Naked Day and this site is still clothed. Even though there has been heaps of hype information about it, I foget all about it till I opened bloglines this morning.
And even if I wanted to remove the stylesheet now, I can not access that part of my site.
Hell if you want to see this site naked, you just need to disable the CSS in your Web Developer Toolbar in Firefox or Mozillia or in your
Developer Toolbar in Internet Explorer …
What surprised me from last night presentation, was was people’s positive reaction to using flash in buttons. (Note the flash button was remove from the front page because I did quick job of adding it and the latest version of IE6 want you to press a button every time flash displayed on a page in the normal way).
The S5 presentation of button the forgotten element given on 30 March 2006 to the Perth Web Standards Group.
Podcast to follow, be very afraid ;-)
Another event to plug, you will find the offical information over on the Web Standards Group and organiser Kay provides more details on her standards blog, including almost saying nice things about me ;-).
I will be doing a presentation on the button element, going into more detail that what I have already done here. Do not worry if you are not located in this obscure corner of the world called Perth, Western Australia. I will post the presentation here and the scary part is that it should be podcast as is happening with most WSG events.