Archive for May, 2006

Google Press Day

Friday, May 12th, 2006

I heard a bit about the Google Press day the other day, and I have Matt Cutts blog posting marked to read over, as well Search Engine Watch’s coverage and links to browse across when I have time.
As I was scanning them though, I spotted a link to news.com’s coverage. Now it seems, unfortunately, [...]

Overzealous CSS

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Andy Clarke has left a nice reminder for people to think when they [URL=http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/semantics_and_design.html]seperate too much into the CSS[/url].
He talks about code semantics, and being careful of removing meaning from code, in order to use CSS to style it instead.
His main example of often styling the first paragraph of a section to highlight it is [...]

CSS positioning trick

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Trick is perhaps a strong word for it, but I picked up on a nice technique recently that has helped a great deal in the positioning of certain elements. I can’t remember exactly where I read it, it may have been A List Apart, but if anyone can remind me, I’ll happily update this [...]

Development platforms

Friday, May 5th, 2006

I’ve been doing a fair amount of work with a ‘CMS’ recently. I struggle to call it a CMS, because it’s actually more than that, it’s also a full development platform, the idea being, that people should be able to create sites in it, and update them without a huge amount of technicial ability.
The [...]