fordie’s blog

When we were developing the Tesco Property Market website there was a requirement to be position the footer either at the bottom of the browser window or at the end of the content if it was over one screen high. On the original site I wasn’t able to acheive this, due to the way some [...]

One thing that has always infuriated me with .net is it’s insistence on adding an invalid name attribute to the asp.net form*.
About a month ago I found a nice easy cure for this, so I thought I’d share it. All you need to do to stop .net adding the name attribute to the form is [...]

Yesterday I finally got round to making a start on re jigging the site. Over the course of the coming days (and knowing how these things tend to go probably months) you may see strange things happening with the layout of the site as I switch backwards & forwards between the current theme and the [...]

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Some time ago I got asked how to produce an “accessible alternative to an image map“.
As long as Image Maps are implemented correctly there’s no reason why the shouldn’t be accessible however they may not always be the most appropriate or semantic way to mark up your content.
In this example I’ve used a simple [...]

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.

<label> [...]