1Jan
Yesterday I saw a few tweets from people remarking how they will have to change their footers copyright statement from 2010 to 2011, given those who were tweeting about it I was surprised that they hadn’t previously been implementing a more dynamic solution. These are supposedly experts in our field.
Luckily a few other bright sparks quickly suggested a solution that is certainly much better than having to change hundreds of sites each year.
The above simply outputs the year in a four digit format. Simples.
Continue reading “So it’s 2011″
14Sep
After reading about HTML5 for what seems like months I finally got my hands dirty and started playing with the new shiny on a production website. Although I can see the power of HTML5 I think the level of browsers support in some areas means that little more than the basics such as the new tags can be used to any great effect.
One such feature that I did use however was the placeholder attribute, but unfortunately this isn’t yet supported in Firefox which is my yard stick as to whether anything is truly worth using in client websites.
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1Jun
A website is full of the small decisions and even smaller details that together make a website what it is. Sometimes we forget the small things when we begin to chase the best of new standards and techniques available to us. So every now and again I try to focus on the small details that we sometimes forget in order to refresh the memory of the well trained designer as well as help those just starting out.
So what am I on about?
The web is built on numerous conventions, things that the general populous have learnt about the way in which we build websites that they can use from site to site. One of the best known is that clicking on a website’s logo will navigate the user to a websites homepage.
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12Apr
Many form elements can look pretty ugly, and although their consistent look helps identify their purpose to the user it’s also sometimes fun and useful to break the conventions. One element that is hard to change is the select box, mainly due to IE not implementing any CSS for select boxes, yet as the image shows below, I decided to try something a little more radical.
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