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• Web standards in a nutshell

  08 April 2006 by Clive Walker

  Natalie Jost has published a neat diagram showing web standards in a nutshell. I'd never really thought about the separation of content from presentation from behaviour in a pictorial or diagrammatic form before – but this is a neat way of showing it!

• How to explain CSS

  27 March 2006 by Clive Walker

  I was contacted recently by someone who wanted to learn Dreamweaver by editing some simple layouts. Nothing wrong with that. I was asked to provide a simple ‘dummy’ layout as a practice aid but then we encountered a few problems.

• Rounded corners with CSS - more Nifty Corners

  22 March 2006 by Clive Walker

  Rounded corners with CSS is a web design method that has received lots of attention and many different solutions have been suggested. The Nifty Corners method (now in its third generation) uses no images and some clever JavaScript to achieve the effect….

• Running Windows and Mac on the same PC

  20 March 2006 by Clive Walker

  The BBC reports that getting an Apple Mac to run Windows XP has been achieved. How long before this becomes a commercial product? This sounds like a sure-fire winner to me. I would buy one.

• CSS tools and tips

  13 March 2006 by Clive Walker

  The Soxiam website has a very useful collection of CSS tools, How To articles and more advanced CSS/JavaScript code examples.

• CSS layouts help

  10 March 2006 by Clive Walker

  There is a learning curve associated with moving from tables-based layouts to entirely CSS-based websites. Speaking from personal experience, the most difficult aspect was getting the layout to work. CSS layout example websites can help.

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• News on the vine

  04 March 2006 by Clive Walker

  Newsvine is a ‘news website’ that was recently launched. However, although news is the main theme, it’s actually a bit of a social community website as well. Here’s our short review.

• Let your feet do the work?

  02 March 2006 by Clive Walker

  The BBC reports that Microsoft are developing a foot pad that will enable you to perform common computer actions using your feet

• Creating different CSS styles using the body tag

  28 February 2006 by Clive Walker

  It’s sometimes useful to have different styles for different website pages. Perhaps to highlight a particular aspect of the page. Well, CSS provides a neat way to do this. For example, the navigation tags (above right) are highlighted differently depending on the section of the website.

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• RSS - really simple surfing

  24 February 2006 by Clive Walker

  Problogger has published a good article explaining RSS feeds and web content syndication. In other words, pushing out web content to your website readers.