Business: Career Stats: Shane Warne the Musical (.com.au)
April 14, 2009
Very generously, the producers of Shane Warne the Musical have given me access to their website stats for the purposes of this post.
Content Strategy: Always Start with Content
January 17, 2009
Whether creating a new website for your business or just updating an old one, the question remains: “How, amongst all the noise on the web, are my potential clients going to find me?”
Behind the Websites: Caching on the Google AJAX Libraries API
January 16, 2009
Using the Google Ajax Libraries API, there are several options for specifying the version numbers of the library you wish to use, for example, three URLs point to the latest version of jQuery.
Behind the Websites: Why I will not be dropping support for IE6
January 7, 2009
Increasingly I’m reading of web developers deciding to drop IE6 from their list of supported browsers, usually, because of its creative interpretation of CSS standards, besides IE7 is over a year old, and, IE8 about to be released.
Behind the Websites: JavaScript Equal Height Columns
December 24, 2008
The desire for equal height columns in a CSS layout is nothing new; there are many solutions available, some use JavaScript, others use CSS with negative margins, and then, there’s the faux columns method using background images. All of these methods have their place as perfectly valid solutions, and, depending on the situation, may be the best solution available.
Behind the Websites: Base JavaScript File
December 8, 2008
Upcoming posts on JavaScript will include references to functions in my base JavaScript file; rather than explain these functions each time, they?ll be detailed in this post for future reference.
Behind the Websites: Review – Everything you know about CSS is wrong!
November 14, 2008
During the week I read Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank’s Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! At a little over 100 pages it’s a concise explanation of CSS tables and how they will – and an argument why they should – change the way in which web developers work.
Behind the Websites: Don’t start with a reset.css
November 11, 2008
Earlier this year, Jonathan Snook wrote an article on why he doesn’t use a reset.css in which he referred to Eric Meyer’s reset, a short time later, Eric Meyer responded with an article of his own. Unlike many discussions on the web, it wasn’t a mudslinging match, but a sincere discussion of the tools available to web developers.
Behind the Websites: Links opening in new windows
July 8, 2008
Yes I have firm views. Take that as a given. Since long before I could code, however, I’ve always been critical of websites that open their links in another window.
Back in the days before browser tabs, a whole new window would open either above or below the window you were currently working on. It was terrible and unstoppable.