fordie’s Blog

I spend an awful lot of time on line so I’m always keen to find ways to make it a more productive and enjoyable time. In the past few weeks and days there have been some interesting new versions of some of the major web browsers released, I’ve been playing with them to see how [...]

I decided it was time for a change of theme. I know I’ve only had the blog going for a couple of months, but I’ve not been entirely happy with the look of the site since the word go. The old “Almost Spring” theme was OK but not quite what I was after. The new [...]

A good friend of mine Sam is off to walk the great wall of china in a couple of days. As well as getting some much needed excersize he’ll be raising a good sum of money for whizz-kidz. I’ll be adding my sponsorship on payday. Sam’s organisational skills are about as good as mine, so [...]

Having thoroughly enjoyed @media 2006 a couple of months back, I was excited to receive an email today announcing @media 2007! And this time there are three conferences to choose from: San Francisco, Hong Kong or London If you are involved in the web design / development industry and you are near one of the [...]

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Following on from a thread on the sitepoint forums I decided to see if “myName.com” was available. It turns out it isn’t. MarkFord.com is registered to a Ford dealer in the US of A. This is a downside to having the surname Ford, the only other one I can think of is people pronouncing it [...]

There is a huge buzz in the web community at the moment about “web 2.0″. Web 2.0 is the term applied by some people to products of the recent trend for developing web applications using technologies like XML & AJAX, providing “social networks” – where people are able to interact with each other and manipulate [...]

I started my blog just over a month ago now. Ever since then I have been working on an article about using lists for form layout, and it’s still not quite ready; most of the content is there, but it lacks a certain finesse. It is extremely frustrating that describing the system I’ve devised should [...]