Useful Web Development Links (7th May 2008)
Open Screen Project aims to put Flash everywhere WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Released Accessibility Evaluators Aren’t Worthless Shaun Inman proposes CSS Qualified Selectors CSS Image Replacement + Google How Usability, User Experience, and Content Affect Search Engine Rankings 3 Golden Rules For Working From Home Ultimate List of Statistics Tools Please feel free to add [...]
Useful Web Development Links (30th April 2008)
I visit a lot of other websites because of either word of mouth, RSS feeds or just from browsing the web and I thought it was about time that I started making a note of these and sharing the most useful one’s with the web design community. So each Wednesday, I’ll be writing a blog [...]
Social Bookmarking for a Web Developer
I must admit that I’m relatively late with getting on the social media bandwagon but have started to get more and more involved with different services recently as I attempt to keep up with the latest trends. Within this article, I’ll briefly cover which tools I’ve found useful and how I use them both personally [...]
How to sell the benefits of accessibility to your boss
It goes without saying that accessibility is something that web developers should all be aware of and should all be attempting to reach full compliance with the WAI Guidelines wherever possible. However, I’m sure that many of you will also have experience of resistence to this from project managers, clients or your direct manager who [...]
CSS Variables
It’s something that many people have been asking for and wanting for some time now and finally it looks like variables are going to be making their way into CSS.
Creating Rounded Corner CSS Boxes Using One Image
I wrote an article some time ago which explained how to create rounded corners using just a single image and CSS. It’s a great solution but imagine if you have multiple boxes and you’d like to use different colours for each box? Within this tutorial, I’ll explain how you can create multiple rounded boxes using [...]
CSS Fixed Layouts Starter Kit
I’m sure by now, everyone has heard about the benefits of separating content (HTML) from the presentational aspect (CSS) of their code and I’ve recently started to put a library of templates together which can be used as a starting point for a variety of CSS designs. Within this first release, I’ll be using just [...]
CSS Hover Icon Menu Using CSS Sprites
Swapping icons on hover is traditionally done using JavaScript but this method requires a lot of unnecessary code and a number of different icons in order to achieve what should be really simple. However, there is a solution and this tutorial will explain how to apply different hover over icons to an unordered list using [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Beta Available
It was only a couple of days ago that I posted the news that Microsoft had decided to backtrack on their initial proposal of using the IE7 engine as their default rendering engine and instead IE8 would be using Standards mode by default. However, Microsoft have had a busy week and have actually released IE8 [...]
IE8 to use Standards mode by default
Much uproar was caused a few weeks ago when Microsoft announced that IE8 would use the IE7 rendering engine by default, however it seems as though they’re back tracking on that decision and IE8 will now render as IE8 without the need for any trigger.