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• Quick link - pseudo elements in CSS

  10 July 2007 by Clive Walker

  Enhance your website text with pseudo element CSS selectors. Jonathan Snook has written a short article about pseudo elements that explains all.

• Building a tabbed menu with Adobe Spry in Dreamweaver

  03 July 2007 by Clive Walker

  When you have a lot of text content on a webpage, it's tempting to split it up into multiple pages. However, on some occasions (for example, a FAQs page), it may be better to use a single page but show/hide various sections of the content using JavaScript (of course, always making sure that content is accessible to users with JavaScript turned off).

• What's happening with CSS3?

  28 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  CSS3.info provides a wealth of information about CSS3 which is the next specification for cascading style sheets (CSS).

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• JavaScript table sorting

  22 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  I know we are not building websites using tables for layout any more (ahem) but tables are still the best way of displaying related data.

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• Tails you win....

  13 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  Dan Glegg gave a great presentation at the third £5 App meeting where he described the process of developing Tails, which is a collaborative bug tracking web application for teams of web developers, web designers, cooks (yes, really) and…. in fact, any group that collaborates on a project could use this application.

• Safari browser for Windows

  11 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  One of the problems that any Windows-based web designer faces is how to test any newly created website on an Apple Mac and, in particular, with Apple's browser Safari.

• Web design and CSS books

  11 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  I am reading two excellent books at the moment. Firstly, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird and secondly The Art and Science of CSS by Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton et al. I have only completed a few chapters so far but both books have nice layouts and seem easy to read.

• All about APIs, mashups, and microformats

  06 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  There's a great article on Digital Web Magazine called APIs and Mashups For The Rest Of Us by Gareth Rushgrove. The article explains what an API is and how websites uses these extensively nowadays.

• d.Construct 2007

  31 May 2007 by Clive Walker

  Last year, I attended d.Construct 2006 in Brighton. It was a great conference and particularly convenient for me because I live in the same county. This year, d.Construct 2007 has expanded into a multi-day event with pre-conference workshops and a larger venue.

  The main theme this year is user experience design which will be interesting. It's an area…

• CSS layout builder tool

  29 May 2007 by Clive Walker

  When working with cascading style sheets (CSS), it’s useful to have a variety of solid CSS-based layouts that you can call on at short notice. After all, ‘two column with header and footer’ can get kinda boring if you work with it all the time.