September 2007

Arghh! I hate web design!

  • September 12, 2007 at 6:17 pm
  • Categories: CSS,Web design & development

  • Bloody Explorer! Bloody quirks mode! Bloody bloody! Grr! There, I feel a bit better. I guess it’s not really IE’s fault that it’s the only browser in which my three-column css-styled layout doesn’t work. Actually, yes it is. It ought to work in quirks mode and doesn’t—that’s likely my fault—but I shouldn’t have to rely [...]

Not so del.icio.us

  • September 11, 2007 at 8:13 am
  • Categories: Uncategorized

  • Is it me, or is del.icio.us very, very, very slow at the moment? I’ve been experiencing this for a few days—sometimes the server doesn’t respond at all—but I can’t find any reference to a problem at their end.

CSS ‘sliding doors’: positioning the tabs

  • September 10, 2007 at 7:29 pm
  • Categories: CSS,Web design & development

  • A lot has been written on styling html lists to make them look pretty, a good example being Douglas Bowman’s ‘Sliding Doors‘ articles on alistapart.com. However, I’ve still not managed to master it. Either I have problems with floated elements or IE doesn’t style the tabs properly (IE6, at any rate). I finally got it [...]