So here’s me, writing silly CSS expressions like p:empty {padding: 0; display: none;}, and forgetting about them several days down the line. Google Chrome decides to render CSS before the page has finished loading it’s content. Therefore, if you’re wondering why paragraphs that AREN’T empty aren’t showing up, this could be why. Other browsers render …
Don’t believe everything you read – that’d be the lesson I learnt with MediaTemple. They may have a nice fancy website and may have been used by every web designer under the sun a year or two ago, but trust me, they’re rubbish. I signed up for their (gs) Grid Service package just over a …
Due to a particularly heated discussion in the comments of the latest article on 24 Ways written by the lovely Sarah Parmenter (link bait all done now, yeah?), and hearing of a particularly awe-inspiring brand new app for the iPhone that goes by the name of Word Lens, it’s sparked me to write about this …
I could never remember IE’s box model quirks, nor how it applied padding/margin to containers with specific widths/heights. These two rules dissolve the need to remember the fixes for either of them! I decided this needed to be documented, since I’ve learned a process of designing in such a manner that IE6 doesn’t always have …
The early hours of Thursday morning (1oth June 2010) saw me on the way to my very first conference. And not just any conference, this was the Web Directions @media conference of Waterloo, London – highly regarded as one of the best annual conferences for web designers in Europe. I shared company with my fellow …
It seems that no matter how much you think you might know about something, you never really do. I was a fool for thinking I knew as much as I thought I did about design, but such is life. As much as you’d like to believe it, design does not come naturally. It needs to …