Archive for the 'css and html' Category

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.

A quick plug for Ideas3 with John All­sopp and Mark Boulton. Two people who know there web stuff are head­ing to Perth for one night. Get your ticket now. I already have.

Frus­tra­tion is try­ing to get a phpBB forum to look like it belongs with Word­Press blog, by modi­fy­ing a phpBB template.

The ori­ginal concept for the Peel Dis­trict Moun­tain Bike Club web­site was a Word­Press blog, with the ever pop­u­lar Con­nec­tions theme and a cus­tom header graphic. It took me less than forty minutes to set up and most of that time was spent doing a cus­tom header graphic. Adding a forum was the next step …

I thought it was about time I took a spin with IE7 beta2. The reason to see how the sites I built in the last couple of years looked in IE7 and what remedial work was required.

I was pleas­antly surprised …

Help­ing set up a web site for the Peel Dis­tricts Moun­tain Bike Club, … the club also wanted a forum, …, I chose phpBB, easy to install and get­ting run­ning with a heap of tem­plates to choose from. Everything was run­ning smoothly until it came time to cus­tom­ise the forum and web­site to look seam­less. Every phpBB tem­plate I looked at was table based. Which is a prob­lem for me:…

For any­body who needs to know more about typo­graphy on the web, and that is any­body who works with HTML and CSS, you need to book­mark (or grab the RSS feed from) The Ele­ments of Typo­graphic Style Applied to the Web

A quick tutorial in elastic faux columns, so Faruk Ates does not have to write one and can con­cen­trate on writ­ing stuff I need to read.