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CSS, (D)HTML, JavaScript & more
Time for another make-over: my old gallery subdomain was fine at the time, but has suffered from 5 years of neglect and has become rather dated and annoying…
Home hosting of content is a great idea (I’ve been doing it for over a decade) but at some stage the cons start to outweigh the pros. In…
I’m a huge fan of CSS and intelligent use of it such as removing images, background colours and scaling down font sizes for print, but some things need…
Recently I’ve been having some fun with Rapidweaver and have used it to create a web site for Marble Hill Dance Studio which is run by Abigail Cova…
Realmac Software | Weblog: http://www.realmacsoftware.com/blog/files/rapidweaver_35_macuser_free.html The next edition of Mac User will have a full and free version of RapidWeaver 3.5 on the cover disc. If you’re at…
Update 07nov06: Note that the download here is only for Aperture versions up to (and including) 1.1.2 The location of the themes is different for Aperture 1.5, so…
Web 2.1 server-side blink tag demonstration: http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-demo.html Now here’s something the mainstream fuss over AJAX has missed: real, tangible and downright useful code. No more silly browser intelligence:…
AIRTIGHT – PostcardViewer Download: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/postcardviewer/ I meant to mention this a while ago when I was looking at various galleries and it’s a great non-linear way of presenting…
A List Apart: Articles: Attack of the Zombie Copy: http://www.alistapart.com:80/articles/zombiecopy Possibly the most amusing article on bad writing that I’ve seen: I wouldn’t have thought it possible to…
When I first put up a site at this domain back in 1999 I was using hsc on BeOS: when I moved away from that to Solaris for…
S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ Apologies to the original site which pointed me at this stuff: it’s so long ago I’ve forgotten where I read…
Pantone to RGB Colour Conversion: http://www.reeddesign.co.uk/test/pantone2rgb.html Very helpful.
Colours on the web – color theory and color matching: http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wheel.asp “Are you about to give up? Just can’t find the right colours for your page? Well, here…
http://phplayersmenu.sourceforge.net/ If you want a menu on your site, then this has more than you could possibly have use for. Unless you’re after a bad design award, of…
I’ve only recently found out about the CSS attribute text-shadow after visiting Binary Bonsai (in Safari) and thinking it looked pretty neat, and then showing it to Nicci…