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• jQuery has the answer

  14 August 2006 by Clive Walker

  Recently, we wanted to add a show/hide paragraph effect for older pub reviews on the Horsham Pub Guide. A show/hide effect means that the older reviews are intially hidden when the page loads but they can be revealed by clicking a simple link.

• Five favourite web developer blogs

  08 August 2006 by Clive Walker

  I realised recently that I follow a lot of web developer blogs. Here’s a few of my personal faves (in no particular order).

• Valid (X)HTML, Dreamweaver and unencoded ampersands

  04 August 2006 by Clive Walker

  One of the reasons why a webpage might not pass the W3C markup validation test is unencoded ampersands in the link URLs. This can often happen with links provided by affiliate schemes. You copy and paste the link code into your valid (X)HTML page and, lo and behold, the page no longer validates. Well, Dreamweaver can help.

• Podcasts for d.Construct 2006

  31 July 2006 by Clive Walker

  In preparation for the web development conference d.Construct 2006, I have been listening to the pre-conference podcasts provided by the organisers Clearleft.

• CSS layouts for forms

  25 July 2006 by Clive Walker

  We have been looking to replace a tables-based form layout with its CSS equivalent for some time. At last, we had a few spare hours and it was time to get rid of those pesky tables once and for all from a couple of websites. In the end, we found a solution but it’s not perfect and several other methods required more time to test than we had available. Here’s the story so far.

• Organise your CSS

  21 July 2006 by Clive Walker

  When you are working with style sheets, it’s all too easy to end up with a long list of rules – and it starts to become more and more difficult to find your way around when editing your CSS file. I’ve made a decision to become a bit better organised in future.

• Web Standards Group meeting report

  17 July 2006 by Clive Walker

  I attended the WSG London meeting a few days ago. There were two entertaining presentations by Andy Budd and Christian Heilmann.

• How important is valid HTML for search engine rankings?

  05 July 2006 by Clive Walker

  There’s a lot of discussion in web designer/developer circles about valid HTML and search engine rankings. If your site has valid HTML or XHTML, will it have better search engine rankings than a website with HTML errors and warnings? My answer would be ‘Yes’.

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• Text align property causes CSS problems

  03 July 2006 by Clive Walker

  We were working on a fairly complex stylesheet recently where the text-align property caused some problems with Internet Explorer.

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• Income for website owners

  26 June 2006 by Clive Walker

  If you are the proud owner of a new website, you may be considering various income streams from advertising. Text links and other textual advertising, for example Google AdSense, are often better income sources than banner ads. Text Link Ads are one way of generating income using textual advertising.

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