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• Website needed for family or friends?

  31 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  A diet of freebie websites doesn’t pay the bills

  I sometimes get asked to create websites for family and friends. This can be a difficult area for any web developer/designer because, whilst you would often like to help, it’s sometimes not practical because of other work commitments. At the same time, these projects are often unpaid and a diet of freebie websites may be great for a portfolio page – but it doesn’t pay the bills!

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• CSS Tip - use a separate stylesheet for testing

  27 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  If you are using cascading style sheets (CSS) on a new website design, it’s probable that you will be testing new style sheet rules. For example, you may be creating a series of rules for a portfolio page perhaps in order to test different layouts. Or, you may be creating a new navigation menu that you want to test on specific pages.

• CSS example layouts

  24 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  Dynamic Drive has usually published JavaScript and 'dynamic HTML' script examples. In particular, it has some well-tested cross-browser examples of image slideshow effects.

• Microformats everywhere

  20 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  Yesterday, I atttended the London WSG Meeting – Microformats. Here’s my quick review.

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• Books for CSS web designers - Part 2

  18 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  This is the second of a series of articles where I review books that are aimed at CSS web designers.I know. DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith is a book about JavaScript and the rather mysterious world of the Document Object Model (DOM). Why is it a book for CSS designers? Hang on, I'll explain.

• Website accessibility - a client asks!

  13 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  I talk to potential clients every month and I usually illustrate specific website aspects by giving a quick ‘guided tour’ of recent websites that CVW Web Design has developed. Nothing new in that.

• Microformats meeting in London

  11 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  After hearing about Microformats in the lunchbreak at d.Construct 2006 last month, I'm looking forward to the Web Standards Group London meeting with a Microformats theme on 19th October

• Sussex geeks and Plone

  05 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  Last night I attended the sixth Sussex Geek Dinner (in fact, more of a buffet this time) in Brighton to meet a few fellow techie/geek types and hear an interesting and knowledgeable presentation.

• Books for CSS web designers

  01 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  Over the last few weeks I have been reading two books, Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm and DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith. At first glance, they are completely different subjects but if you are someone who regularly works with cascading style sheets (CSS), I think you will find both very useful (perhaps for different reasons). In the first article of a series, I review the Bulletproof approach…

• Review of Windows Live Writer and Textpattern

  24 September 2006 by Clive Walker

  Windows Live Writer is a blogging tool (in beta) that lets you post to a blog from your desktop without using your blog admin. For a few reasons, I was interested in trying it out with Textpattern.

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