Category Archives: Development


Typo saves start-up: legal rottweilers still on leash

There’s a new video website called Viddler. Obviously my lawyers have been informed and are watching developments closely, but that lucky double D may just have averted a situation. There’s a good overview of the service at Solution Watch, which explains how you use a timeline to “tag and comment any particular moment of time […]

Matt Cutts on making a how-to archive

Anytime you have to figure something out, write-up the solution and save it. If it’s on the web, you can share it. This is exactly the kind of thing I want to do using this weblog.

CSS footers article at Smashing Magazine

interesting article on footers at Smashing Magazine.

Write-up: fixing the IE6 CSS background image flicker bug

Creating a graphical navigation menu with rollovers, in the modern fashion.
This means that while using images and dynamic behaviour to enhance appearance, we can use CSS-only image replacement (Doug Bowman’s overview) and rollovers (Pixy’s original article) for the sake of accessibility and SEO and to avoid depending on JavaScript that might be unavailable.
The problem: if […]