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• Microformats explained

  05 April 2007 by Clive Walker

  Glenn Jones gave a lucid explanation of microformats and their usage at last night's Sussex Geek Dinner.

• How to develop your own web application

  28 March 2007 by Clive Walker

  I went to the inaugural £5 App Meeting in Brighton yesterday to hear John Montgomery and Ian Oszvald talk about two web applications that they have developed in their spare time.

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• Glossy Blue - fantastic blog theme

  22 March 2007 by Clive Walker

  I was perusing my Flickr website inspiration photoset and I came across a screenshot of a blog theme that I saved. Sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say 'Wow! That's a great design'.

• What am I - web designer or web developer?

  19 March 2007 by Clive Walker

  I signed up for the Future of Web Design Conference recently and the name badge registration asked whether I was a web designer or web developer. Hmmm. Tricky question.

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• CSS overflow property

  13 March 2007 by Clive Walker

  CSS properties you may not have heard of – 2
  There may be times when your web design layout dictates that the height of all your pages should be the same or very similar. On these occasions, it can be a ‘problem’ if the client presents you with ‘too much’ text or image content so that the page height is larger than desired. What to do? Change the layout or come up with some clever DOM scripting to show page content?

• Twitter - what's it all about?

  06 March 2007 by Clive Walker

  Twitter is a website that has received quite a buzz. However, I must admit that it is not something that immediately says to me 'I must join'.

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• Expression Engine presented

  01 March 2007 by Clive Walker

  Last night at the 9th Sussex Geek Dinner, Geoff Adams enthused about Expression Engine as a content management system (CMS).

• Free fonts from Urban Fonts

  28 February 2007 by Clive Walker

  Urban Fonts is a fonts showcase website that offers free fonts, commercial fonts, and dingbats in an attractive, modern, blue and green website design. There’s a slightly Web 2.0 look to the site with a familiar tag cloud of popular searches – and there are over 8000 fonts that you can browse, search, and preview.

• CSS properties you may not have heard of - 1

  23 February 2007 by Clive Walker

  Every so often (well, actually, quite often), I ‘discover’ a new CSS property that I have not used before. Here’s one. The first-line pseudo-element may be used to add a different style to the first line of text of an element.

• CSS is easier than tables for web page layout

  20 February 2007 by Clive Walker

  I have reached the conclusion¹ that using CSS for web page layout is easier than using tables.