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• Web development books for 2007

  22 December 2006 by Clive Walker

  Books that I'm looking forward to reading in 2007: Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith. As a follow-up to DOM Scripting, this should be a clear and insightful read

• Strange website behavior from a large company

  17 December 2006 by Clive Walker

  Sometimes, the largest companies make mistakes with their websites. I used to assume that big corporate enterprises have large budgets and teams of website developers that are fully aware of cross-browser problems and the latest techniques. Perhaps not if my recent experience is anything to go by.

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• CSS books for your bookshelf

  08 December 2006 by Clive Walker

  I am reading two excellent CSS books at the moment. Both books are clearly written and I have found them easy to follow.

• Using Aardvark Firefox extension

  28 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  Following on from a previous post, another tool I have been using recently is the Aardvark Firefox extension or add-on.

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• Jay talks jQuery

  22 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  Last night I attended the seventh Sussex Geek Dinner (ably organised by Simon Harriyott once again) where Jay Gooby from Snipperoo gave a presentation about jQuery, which is a newish JavaScript library.

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• Use more than one CSS class

  21 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  With CSS, it’s possible to use more than one class on any (X)HTML element. This is a useful technique that can help avoid CSS style sheet bloat. Here’s an example that I used recently.

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• How to X-ray your webpage

  13 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  Here's a nice extension (sorry, add-on) to Firefox that I find really useful. It's called X-Ray by Stuart Robertson

• ReviewMe reviewed - get paid for writing reviews

  10 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  ReviewMe is an interesting new service that promises to connect bloggers with advertisers. Nothing new with that, you may say.

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• Google loses it?

  06 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  Is it me or has Google 'lost it' recently? Google always prides itself on the relevance and accuracy of its search results. However, these days, Google's search results for specific keywords sometimes make no sense at all.

• CSS attribute selectors - clever styling

  06 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  I am reading CSS Mastery [the book] [the website] by Andy Budd at the moment. After reading the first chapters and a few other pages, I have already come across an interesting CSS usage that I should have been more aware of.