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• CSS Tip: Using max-width for flexible images

  23 December 2010 by Clive Walker

  When you are working with fluid or elastic website layouts or perhaps using CSS Media Queries, it's essential that the designs cope with large images.

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• Form validation with PHP. Help!

  16 December 2010 by Clive Walker

  I was recoding a form the other day and I needed a different form validation method (using PHP). We all know that JavaScript validation provides a neat user experience but it doesn't work if someone wants to circumvent it.

• Web design books for Christmas reading

  03 December 2010 by Clive Walker

  At this time of year, I normally pick out some web design books that I want to read over the Christmas holidays. I'm spoilt for choice this year.

• Website inspiration - 28-11-10

  29 November 2010 by Clive Walker

  Here are four websites that I’ve come across in my web travels which ( I think) are fantastic designs. Perhaps for different reasons but all great nonetheless. Read on for more details and why I think they are so good.

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• How to show random text and images with Textpattern

  15 November 2010 by Clive Walker

  Here’s my problem: I want to show a (linked) random image (and possibly a short description) on a Textpattern website. By random, I mean that the image and its link should be different every time the page loads. After a quick search, here’s what I found for displaying some random content using Textpattern.

• Box-shadow for Internet Explorer

  06 November 2010 by Clive Walker

  Box-shadow is a great CSS3 property that allows you to add a subtle (or not) shadow on an element.

• CSS tables revisited

  29 October 2010 by Clive Walker

  A couple of years ago, Sitepoint published a book called Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong (reviewed here). The main theme of the book was the use of CSS properties and values like display: table and display: table-cell (see also CSS display property). If you have not come across these before, they allow you to assign table-like behavior to <div> or other elements, such as <p>. In the book, this method is called CSS tables and it seems to be an easy way of achieving grid layouts. Should we be using this method more? Here’s how it works.

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• It's been a funny old year

  14 October 2010 by Clive Walker

  Earlier in the year, I found myself twiddling my thumbs on a few occasions when freelance web design work seemed to be very slow.

• Internet Explorer 9 is coming

  29 September 2010 by Clive Walker

  Internet Explorer 9 has been released in beta form with a full release due in the next few months. As a web designer and front end developer, I've been looking forward to the new browser.

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• Links for light reading 13-9-10

  13 September 2010 by Clive Walker

  Every so often, I post a few links to interesting sites that I have seen on my travels around the web. If you would like to see more of this type of post, let me know in the comments.

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