Category Archives: Web design

My Google Chrome woes – resolved!

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

IE6 isn’t really that bad, when you know how.

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

Web Directions @media Conference 2010, thoughts.

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