fordie’s Blog

Form layout is one area where designers have struggled to find a sensible way to replace tables with nice clean semantic xhtml + CSS. In 2005 Andy Clarke demonstrated his approach to form layout at CSS for designers, He wraps the label around the input field, then put the actual label text in a span. [...]

In preparation for launching a new design for fordie.co.uk in the coming weeks I’ve just been re-jigging the site’s categories. They are now organised hierarchically under either personal or technical. This hasn’t made any obvious effect to the look of the site yet, but it will (hopefully) help me achieve the layout I want for [...]

I ain’t afraid of no ghost! Ever since I started blogging, I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to get html into my posts so that can write tutorials. It’s something I’ve struggled with and as an upshot – I have two or three articles that are waiting to be published that [...]

It’s been a while since I posted anything about the family – here are a couple of videos of the girls. Erin is growing up fast, she thinks her big sister is hilarious, here you can see the little comedy double act in action.

I was really hoping that I’d be able to go to @media 2007 in London next month but for one reason & another (it not having being signed off by the boss & actually being on holiday) I won’t be there. It’s a shame, but with any luck there’ll be plenty blogged about it. Last [...]

Just when you thought we had enough abbreviations in web development another one comes along. This one is POSH! POSH stands for Plain Old Semantic HTML. It’s a phrase first coined on the microformats IRC channel and promoted forward by John Allsopp, Tantek Çelik, Jeremy Keith, and Chris Messina. The thinking behind this abbreviation is [...]