Blog
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It's been a busy week...
07 March 2008 by
Things are real busy here at CVW Towers. I have several website projects [in varying degrees of completion] that need my attention, I visited a government-based UK agency on Tuesday to discuss a website project.
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Recent CSS reading
28 February 2008 by
Cameron Moll has started what promises to be an interesting and clever series of articles called The Highly Extensible CSS Interface.
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Turner Security Systems
22 February 2008 by
We have recently designed a new website for Turner Security Systems. The company operates from a base in Cranleigh, Surrey.
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Bigger thumbnail images?
20 February 2008 by
Screen resolutions seem to be getting bigger every year. A few years ago, 800 x 600 px was the most common resolution. Now, it's pretty usual for people to be viewing your carefully crafted website with resolutions of at least 1024 x 768 and, in a lot of cases, 1280 px or bigger.
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Fixed width or fluid layouts?
18 February 2008 by
I recently started work on a website that uses a fluid layout and it has caused me to think about the old fixed width vs fluid layout web design debate.
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Better email productivity
14 February 2008 by
After a few days away without laptop or email access, I returned to a large pile of emails! Moments like this make me realise just how many trivial emails I receive. By 'trivial', I mean 'new link added/new comment on your website/blog' notification emails and various other informational emails. In the course of a normal day, these are easily manageable, but over a few days, they tend to mount up.
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Educational toys and gifts
30 January 2008 by
Over the past few months, we have been working on a website for Toys and Learning. After some hard graft, we're pleased to say that the website is now open for business. Yay!
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CSS menu trick
27 January 2008 by
Changing the hover state of a link in response to a mouseover event is a common CSS technique.
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Versioning for IE8
23 January 2008 by
There's a lot of debate in the web design/development/standards world at the moment about a proposed new feature in Internet Explorer 8 as described in this issue of A List Apart and...
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Spock searches for people on the Internet
20 January 2008 by
Spock is a relative newcomer on the search engine scene. It provides people-based searching combined with elements of social networking and other modern website practices like tagging and voting. By signing up to Spock, you can 'claim' your search results which can allow you to shape what people see when they search for your name.