Writing multiple toggle links in JQuery

October 18th, 2008

I was just working with this so thought I would write and quick a quick blog post about it. It was covered a bit on http://www.learningjquery.com/2006/09/slicker-show-and-hide but hidden in the comments so I though I would bring it out for all to see. Thanks to Scott for the original explanation. read more »

Andy Clarke CSS Workshop –
Progressive Enhancement

May 14th, 2008

We have just hit lunchtime in this and I am really enjoying it. Andy Clarke is a great presenter/host and knows his stuff so its always a great learning workshop. read more »

Semantically built lists, who needs divs????

April 29th, 2008

I thought I would go over the design for this page and how the Step-by-step guide to writing a review was built. read more »

CSS Frameworks/Reset

April 28th, 2008

I find this quite an interesting subject at the moment, there seems to be two contrasting views to what works well and it was brought up again at the Future of Web Design in both the conference talk by Jon Hicks and mentioned briefly by Jina Bolton and Andy Clarke in Jina's workshop on CSS. I am someone that comes from the school of liking to reset all my styles. read more »

Global resets CSS

January 20th, 2008

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/01/15/resetting-again/ This is a really interesting article from Eric Meyer, I have often used the basic * { margin:0; padding:0; border:0; etc } In my CSS markup, it makes so much more sense to get very specific with the reset and make sure everything is covered. html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; outline: 0; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; } body ...read more »

Why Accessibility? Because It’s Our Job!

January 10th, 2008

I had an interesting moment at christmas. We have been working like crazy on our new web project (touchlocal.com) to get it live, as part of this I had been covering some basics of accessibility but it had not really been an area we had touched on properly because of the time restraints. So in a moment of madness (or greatness I guess) I fired up my Nan's old school PC with an even older version if IE6 and all the accessibility settings pretty high as they could go so she could view it. I held my breath, worried... To ...read more »

Web standards shake up / browser wars..

January 9th, 2008

There seems to be some real shake ups happening in the web standards word, check some of these links, they provide really interesting reading! Read more here And here