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Monday, March 6th, 2006
Powerbook sleepy time
I am almost at my wits end – my workhorse, my friend at all times, the one who is always there for me – my laptop is misbehaving. This is devastating for me – every piece of work I do is predicated on the suite of tools I have painstakingly assembled here and to have [...]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Poor quality SEO hinders the industry
Rand has a post on how pushy poor SEO service providers can be today – he was approached by some mob called Internet Advancement who did not seem to realise that he is a professional SEO and offered him all sorts of poor services that they would do for him that would not benefit him [...]
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Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Safari wierdness!
I just found a peculiar bug in Safari. It recognises a CSS attribute of ‘background-colour’ – yes, thats with the non-American spelling. Is that bizarre, or what? ‘Why’, I asked myself, ‘is this displaying the correct colour in Safari but no other browser?’ Because Safari can spell! Hurray! Not that it is useful, given the [...]
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
Best Practice for the Head Element
Karl Dawson has started a neat series of articles on correct markup of the head element in a web page at his ‘That Standards Guy” blog. The first entry covers how to use the DTD, the following entries are expected to cover the other elements. This is a nice coverage of a niche which has [...]
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Sunday, December 18th, 2005
Accesskeys use improving
Over on the GAWDs mailing list there have been changes in the current thoughts on access keys. Generally, it has been thought that access keys should not be used because they are too likely to conflict with existing key combinations in a user’s setup and because having different key combinations on different browsers meant that [...]
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Saturday, December 17th, 2005
Logging into Browsercam
Here’s a tip – Do you use browsercam to test your website layouts? Its an excellent service, if somewhat pricey. Do you find logging in drives you crazy because it doesn’t remember your password? Make your bookmark for http://www.browsercam.com/login.aspx rather than the site homepage – the login page correctly remembers your password where the homepage [...]
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Saturday, October 8th, 2005
New Client Site for Personal Client
Elysian is proud to announce completion of a small project for a private client.
Providing a blog, the new site will allow our client to talk about their West Highland Terrier x Maltese Dogs.
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Web Essentials 05 – Here I Come!
I’m helping out with the WE05 conference this year, and I am so excited! My flight is booked, crash space with friends is arranged (isn’t knowing people from the internet for years the coolest thing?) and all I have to do is pack, and explain to the children at the last minute where I will [...]
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
Width: auto does weird things to image
Writing up a bug I wrote some pages this week which included a list of items with a left floated image per list item. So I had markup like this: <ul id=”thisList”> <li><h2>Heading for first item</h2> <div><img src=”i/image1.jpg” width=”106″ height=”106″ alt=”[second image]“><h3>Subheading for first item</h3> <p>A paragraph of description</p> <p>A second paragraph.</p> </div> </li> <li> [...]