fordie’s Blog

It’s not like me to post anything political, but I’ll make an exception for this. In the UK the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) covers access to services for disabled people; the part of the act that covers websites came into force in 1999. The act states that “reasonable adjustments” to ensure that their service is [...]

I just got this email from those lovely folks at vivabit: The @media 2007 web site has just been launched, and you can now register to attend: http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/europe/ Taking place on June 7th and 8th, this year the bar will be raised and web design and development best practices will be pushed that one step [...]

Adobe have launched a new community website with the aim of: Finding solutions to CSS and browser compatibility issues Sharing solutions and workarounds you’ve discovered with the community Allowing the community to comment on and improve existing solutions CSS Advisor will apparently be integrated into the next version of Dreamweaver which (according to Sitepoint) is [...]

I have been waiting for this book to come out for months. Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke could be the book of the year for web designers. I have to admit, I am a big fan of Clarke’s. I found his blog a couple of years ago and was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 spend a lot of time wrestling with CSS working round IE’s broken box model. A lot of this pain could have been avoided, if only I’d remembered about the “doctype switch”. If you don’t know what a box model is, or why IE’s is broken, have a look at this. There are lot’s of [...]

The IE team have Today announced on their blog that IE7 (Seven) will be pushed out to Windows XP users using MS automatic update (contrary to what Chris Wilson told Vitamin). This will happen some time in the fourth quater of this year. I believe this has huge implecations for anyone that develops commercial sites, [...]

xhtml compliant flickr widget I’ve made some changes to the flickr sidebar widget. When I installed it I didn’t realise that it used tables for layout, then I validated my page and found there where a number of issues in the widget; so I took it upon myself to sort out the xhtml. I have: [...]