Tables in the CSS Age
on Sep 21, 2008 in Accessibility CSS & XHTML Design As CSS began to gain popularity the use of tables for layouts, quite rightly, began to lessen. However one of the side effects of this was that less developers were learning how to use and markup a table, for any purpose. Subsequently we'd often.

Naked Day x2
on Apr 7, 2008 in CSS & XHTML General Well, CSS naked day has been and gone again this year - well, at least for me it has. The last couple of years it's been on April 5th, and I've participated each year. This year was no exception - however I may have celebrated by myself

A feeling of deja vu
on Aug 2, 2007 in Design General It's amazing what you can find from reading through your web stats. Things like who links to you, who visits you, where they come from, how often the search engines visit - and even who is stealing your design. Yes, it seems someone likes this d.

Advanced spam control with mod_rewrite
on Jul 11, 2007 in General I can't remember where I first got the idea from, but for some time now I've been using mod_rewrite to protect against spam and hack attempts, and this has worked quite well for some time. Essentially, I have a number of rules contained

Z-index Oddities: Menu dropdowns overlapped by positioned elements
on May 23, 2007 in Browsers CSS & XHTML I use the Suckerfish Dropdowns menu quite often when building large sites and rarely have too many problems with it. However, on one of the sites I'm currently working on there have been quite a few odd bugs - though I should stress that I don&am

Redesign
on May 21, 2007 in Accessibility Browsers CSS & XHTML Design General Regular visitors to the site should notice quite a radical change of design here which I'm hoping will make it a bit more visually pleasing. When I first started the site it was, almost literally, just thrown together in a hurry and without a fi.

Five things that you may not know
on Dec 14, 2006 in General …about me. Although Sarah should, even though she's meme tagged me. I have a degree in biochemistry from the University of Liverpool. I like weird films that no-one else ever wants to watch, like Rawhead Rex and Brain Damage. I like ot