My book, The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks is now on sale from Sitepoint. The book contains 101, “how do I …?” questions, with practical, cross-browser solutions to those problems. They are the answers to questions I have seen frequently posted to mailing lists; explanations of commonly used techniques; and just things … The CSS Anthology
A while back I wrote an article about forms and CSS and covered displaying forms in tables, for this impropriety I was immediately lynched by the purists. As an application developer I still maintain that sometimes a table is the most appropriate way to layout a complex form. In fact, very often, a complex form … Using tables to layout forms
Firefox 1.0 has been released today. If you are an Internet Explorer user and concerned about spyware and viruses getting onto your machine via your web browser then there has never been a better time to switch away from IE – Firefox will happily import all your favorites and settings and it’s free – what … Firefox 1.0
Last year, I posted to this blog about how in the North-East we carved turnips and not pumpkins for our Hallowe’en lanterns. On checking my webserver logs this evening I discovered a strange increase in traffic (especially strange since I’ve not updated for ages). The reason for my sudden popularity appears to be that I … Hallowe’en and unexpected Google ranking
Our friends in Reform are at it again – giving the press something to write about by denouncing the Archbishop as a prostitute; Kings College Chapel as a “Temple to Paganism”; and having the usual go at women Priests. The problem as I see it, is not that this noisy minority go around saying this … Sigh …
Best wishes to Jeffrey Zeldman and Carrie Bickner on the birth of their baby, Ava Marie. “Babies are such a nice way to start people” – Don Herold
I sit on two committees as a volunteer, there are a lot of similarities between the two committees, both have buildings and people to consider, both have funding issues that need to be considered before even the smallest action is taken and both are made up of mainly volunteers along with a couple of staff … On being a volunteer
If you are reading this you are seeing the new incarnation of rachelandrew.co.uk which is now running on WordPress. I have to say how impressed I am with the simplicity of the WordPress install and the ease with which it imported all of the Movable Type posts and comments. I’ve also redesigned, with a colour … WordPress
My parents have set off on a road trip across the USA. They (and my two younger sisters) have been resident in the USA for many years and now my folks have no children at home they are taking the chance to see a bit more of that huge country. I’m following their progress on … Grand trip 2004
The Firefox Preview Release has now been released, download it and help to meet the target of 1 million downloads in 10 days and more importantly protect your computer from nasties that are all too easily installed when browsing the web using Internet Explorer. I love Firefox, but if you want to see what other … Spread Firefox