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• Understanding HTML and CSS code is a good thing

  15 December 2008 by Clive Walker

  When I was doing some Dreamweaver tuition recently, I was asked about implementing a CSS dropdown menu. I recommended this excellent CSS Menu from Craig Erskine which is itself a derivation of the original Suckerfish Dropdown menus on A list Apart.

• The importance of web content

  10 December 2008 by Clive Walker

  The importance of web content cannot be overstated and writing persuasive and original web content is a lot more difficult than it sounds.

• Add your own styles to websites

  03 December 2008 by Clive Walker

  Jon Hicks has written a great article at 24Ways entitled User Styling. The article describes how you can write your own CSS styles for websites.

• Review of Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong

  19 November 2008 by Clive Walker

  Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! is a new book by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank and published by Sitepoint. The book’s title is a bit of a marketing ploy and it’s not entirely accurate in my opinion. That aside, the book describes some new CSS layout methods, in particular the use of display:table and associated properties like display:table-cell, that will be supported by all major browsers when Internet Explorer 8 is released. The book argues that the release of IE8 means that we should be using these methods now [‘our part of the bargain’] in order to push the envelope for CSS layout and stop ‘holding back the Web’. Read on for my review.

• Everything you know about CSS is wrong?

  17 November 2008 by Clive Walker

  Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong! The title of this new book from Sitepoint seems to be deliberately provocative.

• A simple website for a local company

  10 November 2008 by Clive Walker

  Pyzer Cleaning needed a simple website to replace an existing website that was not working for them.

• Recent CSS reading and some advanced CSS techniques

  06 November 2008 by Clive Walker

  For a Beautiful Web is a promo for Andy Clarke and his web design and development training courses [CSS included] and the blog has highlighted some new [in terms of usage] CSS techniques in two articles that I found really interesting.

• The Holmbush Inn on Horsham Pub Guide

  30 October 2008 by Clive Walker

  I run a couple of pub guide websites including Horsham Pub Guide. I've not had much time to add new pubs to the website in recent months but following a user's suggestion, I've added the Holmbush Inn.

• Shopping and blogging: website case study

  24 October 2008 by Clive Walker

  I set-up a shopping website about a year ago called Shop Junction. It used a product feed and API from those nice chaps at Affiliate Window. In fact, it was the first version of their Shop Window system that I used. The software allows you to showcase a very large product catalogue from many different online merchants on your website. If someone clicks through and buys, you get a percentage of the sale. Sounds good?!

• Backing up files using an online application

  20 October 2008 by Clive Walker

  As a web designer or freelancer, you know the importance of backing up your work [right?!]. If you are like me, you may back-up to various alternative hard drives on a regular basis.

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