After feeling pretty pleased that I had so easily switched from the old site’s templates to MT4’s, I spent this weekend fine-tuning my sidebar and transferring static pages into the MT4 content management system. Then I decided to check out how valid my pages were. Horrors! I had 128 errors. The majority of errors were …
I was interested to hear about Google’s OpenSocial API. They have cleverly stepped in to address the proliferation of social networks with different standards and made themselves the central connecting point. Despite the global popularity of sites such as MySpace and Facebook, the rest of the social network market has been fragmented into a Long …
I spent a couple of hours yesterday cleaning some old website’s code that was handed over to me for temporary maintenance. It is the year 2007 but people are still using nested tables to arrange their text. Imagine a three-column table, with spacer GIFs in the right and left columns and the body text inside …
I was applying for a CDP account online, and was asked to fill in my details. Finally, I had to print a summary page, sign it and mail it to them. However, these were the instructions: Select “File”, click on “Page Setup” Select Page Size as “A4” Adjust the margins for header and footer to …
This puts the icing on the cake – Someone looked at a Microsoft stylesheet and noticed a most amusing comment. See the original screen shot. So they’re human, after all. However, I just checked the stylesheet in question and it appears that all references to ‘stupid hack’ have been removed. Hush now. Technorati Tags: microsoft …
I’ve always wondered to what extent the different email programs support CSS. Well, here’s the answer. Thanks to Jim Barraud (aka van6ogh) who posted this most useful link in Ma.gnolia. The article’s pretty thorough – they even covered Lotus Notes! To quote, You can have a field day as long as you’re not sending to …
I tried to tidy up my Flickr badge but realised that the default script tags that we’re given, actually produces code which doesn’t validate. A quick Google search indicates that other web-standards aware users are facing similar issues. I did all I could – added the ‘amp;’s to the ‘&’s and stripped out all the …
A parting note as I tidy up / revamp what I hope are my last series of Flash movies here. If you know your source files are going to be handed over to other designers or programmers, please: Label your layers. Especially when you have twenty of them per file. Name your elements. It gets …
My friend Lucian, who’s been freelancing as a web designer, writes of the difficulties he faced while convincing a potential client of the importance of web standards. I can completely empathise with him, though after being in the industry for three years I’ve become less idealistic. Face it, clients in Singapore haven’t heard of the …
Here’s a good review of Flash MX 2004’s support for CSS. Apparently, it is not quite what we hoped it would be. Nonetheless it is a significant new feature and we hope Macromedia will continue to develop this feature to support more attributes. Note also the reply (comment no. 7) by Macromedia Support which links …