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Thursday, May 01, 2008

This is how you get sIFR to work...

Great post by David at Design Intellection on how to get sIFR to work...

"The goal of this tutorial is to distill the information at the
official site for sIFR into a simple step-by-step process of how to implement sIFR on your site. After following this tutorial you will have a basic understanding of how sIFR works and will be able to expand into more advanced areas."

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Create your own pop art poster

Nice article from freelance artist Rob Cubbon:

Create your own pop art poster

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Open Source Text Editors

Some open source (free!) text editors to download & try...

HTML Kit
Bluefish
Komodo Edit

NVU
SeaMonkey Composer

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Web in Charts

Interesting post on TechCrunch

"Today more than ever, the Web is a global game. Below are charts from a new
State of the Internet report from comScore that paints a picture of global competition on the Web. In 1996, two thirds of all people online (66 percent) lived in the U.S. By last October, that had completely flipped, with 77 percent of the online population living in the rest of the world and only 23 percent in the U.S. The U.S. still has the largest total number of Web surfers (162 million a month), but China is catching up fast (with 96 million)"

Friday, February 29, 2008

IE8 Beta

Microsoft prepares to release IE8...

IE8 will replace Internet Explorer 7.0, Microsoft's current internet browsing software program. IE7 was introduced in October 2006.


Following some criticism of IE7, version 8 is expected to more fully comply with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. W3C attempts to ensure cross-browser and -platform interoperability. RIval browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox already comply with W3C standards.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Website Law - Privacy Policy

Good Privacy Policy for UK websites. Free version allowed if you keep their author credit intact otherwise there is a standard licence fee.

"Our privacy policy document is intended for use in England and Wales in relation to websites which collect and process personal information. It may be used to help website owners fulfil their obligations under data protection legislation."

Monday, November 19, 2007

W3C Pushing for Better Web on Mobile Devices

Increasingly, people are connecting to the Internet through mobile phones, video-game consoles, or televisions. The problem is that a lot of Internet content isn't available for all of these devices, and many websites crash when loaded on a mobile device. Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and father of the Internet, worries that this is effectively cutting some people off from the information that is freely shared on the Internet. Speaking at the Mobile Internet World conference in Boston earlier this week, Berners-Lee said that the W3C is working on defining a set of standards that developers can use to build websites that work with mobile devices, as well as with desktop computers, so that the mobile Web doesn't break apart from the World Wide Web. This week, the W3C also launched a new tool that developers can use to test their websites for compatibility with mobile devices.