Weblog date: February 2004
I'm off to Chamonix for a bit of snowboarding! Eight days on the snow with one of the best seasons in recent memory. Should be good. And a bit less painful than last time. Bye!...
I spent a little while porting my travel writings across to the new site design. I don't think they are long enough to earn their own area of the site but I also hadn't realised quite how long some of...
I came across Ilkka Uimonen's site while reading through EXP this morning and absolutely had to steal it. The work here is incredible - beatiful pictures of disturbing subjects including Afghanistan,...
There's something deeply cool about strapping your feet to a plank and hurling yourself down an improbably steep slope. Those graceful, arcing turns; The effortless power... Big trousers, sunglasses,...
Right, I'm back near civilisation again (near enough for there to be an internet cafe anyway). Just got off the boat from Taveuni where we've been for the last week. I can't believe how much...
For anyone who doesn't already know - I'm back in London. [sigh]. And back at work. [sigh]. I thought I'd finish up my holiday account rather than work... Levuka on Ovalau was cool as hell. It's the...
Well, I've made it to Fiji... Just. I got searched 3 times coming through LA customs and as a result almost missed my connecting flight. Do I look that dodgy?! Don't bother to answer that. My penknife...
Evening one and all! After days of wandering we've made it to Siam Reap in Cambodia. Well, we've actually been here a while now but I was after a bit of drama. Always a good start with a bit of drama....
Right. Well. I feel like I've been beaten up... and in a way I have... We recently spent 4 hours travelling up and down what some guy described as a 'road'. Dear sweet Jesus, that was never a road! It...
Adam Poselli has released a whole bunch of design guides on his website. These are basically a set of style guides including colours, font suggestions and eye candy to help you produce websites along...
This subject of min-width and min-height is a perennial favourite on the CSS mailing lists. You can guaruntee seeing several questions on the subject per week. Long story short, IE5-6 doesn't support...
I've been following usability for a while, being a regular reader of Jacob Neilson's Alertbox and Jared Spool's UIE mailer. It had occurred to me to wonder why they sometimes disagreed but I'd never...
Anyone concerned with accessibility in the UK should be aware of the RNIB's See It Right guidelines. It's the RNIB that has been commencing court actions against websites so these are the people to...
It's funny how things crop up just when you start looking for them. While I was redesigning my website I was toying with replacing my headers with images because I much prefer Helvetica Black to Arial...
I forgot to post this last week but I'm back at Nykris for the next 5 or 6 weeks working on yet more stuff for business.gov.uk. The project's a monster!...
I missed the launch of Dave Shea's A Second Voice section on Mezzoblue so this is new to me. Basically he's invited various web specialists to write articles on their areas of expertise, resulting in...
In fact, they've got a shed-load of great articles up on Superfluousbanter on all subjects of web design, not just usability. I particularly liked Design and Usability: Part 1 and Design and...
Yep, I've been plundering Andy Budd's site again. This time it was a link to a nice little site that generates a map of the bits of the world you have seen, based on the countries you have visited....
Andy Budd just posted a link to a great article by Sven Tofte about using IE's expression property to emulate max-width. I came across expressions when I first started using CSS but I disgarded them...
In a fit of self-indulgence I decided to Google my Zen Garden entry, Postage Paid. And I got some quite interesting results! There was Dave Shea's initial post about the batch of designs that Postage...
Pencils drawn exclusively with CSS? Only 1452 divs to do it? Wow, who'd've thought it! Um, but seriously, it is actually quite cool. It was never supposed to be a practical demonstration, but rather...
This Web Standards Awards thing is a great idea - a monthly award for a standards-compliant website. Resources like Scriv's CSS Vault are great for developer-types but there is a real need for a site...
Here's an odd one. If you specify a width on a list (mine was a ul) IE5.x treats it as if you'd set list-style-position to inside and moves the list marker dot to within the list items box. Setting...
Right, I've finally managed to get this redesign underway. It's far from complete at the moment though. I haven't done much testing yet and there are little touches to add as I go along but it's a big...
My Postage Paid submission was made and official design on the popular CSS Zen Garden showcase site for the promotion of CSS-based design....
