Posts tagged ‘Web design’
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March 2nd
16Added a print CSS style sheet
Excerpt: Today, I checked an item off on my todo list that had been on there way too long: I created a print style sheet for this site. Every time I write an article that is longer than 5 paragraphs, I get emails from readers asking for a better print style sheet. Until just a few minutes ago, printing would…
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April 24th
4Webdesign survey
Excerpt: It's up again, the annual webdesign survey by A List Apart, I took it, and so should you! (If you don't like surveys do it for the prizes...)…
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April 24th
4Serving XHTML as application/xhtml+xml
Excerpt: When you're coding XHTML, you should deliver it as application/xhtml+xml. The problem is however, that once you do that, IE 6 & 7 break horribly... For your pages to render properly in those browsers, you'd need to set the mime type to text/html. Some very bright people have thought this problem…
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April 1st
0The correct way of using conditional comments
Excerpt: Some people, like Jens Meiert, have argued that using conditional comments to fix layout bugs for IE is wrong. For those of you who don't know what they are, check out my article on conditional comments. I on the other hand, think that it's the only proper way of working around IE CSS bugs. If yo…
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February 17th
0FeedRoll
Excerpt: Today I finished up my work on FeedRoll, a site which offers a widget to show RSS feeds on your site. I've fixed several things on it, yet the most fun came today. There was a colorpicker on it before that only worked on Internet Explorer 5 and up, and nothing else... Now, those of you who know me, …
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February 6th
14"Officially" starting my own Webdesign company
Excerpt: I've been doing webdesign work for friends and family for years already, but I've now decided to start my own webdesign company, called AlthA Webdesign Nijmegen. I won't be taking hundres of jobs since I'm still working for Onetomarket and this is just a job on the side. But if you need someone to s…
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January 26th
15Sortable table script updated to v1.5.5
Excerpt: I got an email from Mozilla's director of product management Sherman Dickman today, that my sortable table script wasn't sorting numbers above 1 million which have comma's in them correctly (they do have a lot of Firefox downloads ;) ). The problem was caused by the fact that replace only replac…
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January 22nd
13Googling for microformats
Excerpt: Imagine, you can type in a query like "joost de valk class:vcard" and Google comes up with my contact page, because that has a vcard class in it's markup, the main class of the hCard microformat. This was suggested today on the uf-discuss mailing list, a mailing list I've been lurking on for quite a…
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January 2nd
10Sortable table v1.5
Excerpt: I've just updated my sortable table script to version 1.5, in which it is fixed to work in Safari for Mac OS X 10.4 as well, (I didn't even know that it wasn't working in there since it always worked in the nightly). I'm now taking new feature requests for this script, so hit me with them, in the co…
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December 11th
1Greasemonkey auto-update notification
Excerpt: One of the biggest advantages of an extension over a GreaseMonkey script is the possibility of automatic update notification for the user. For my Greasemonkey statistics detector I've been looking in to a way to provide automatic update notification, without having to "phone home" on each use of the…
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November 10th
4More sortable table fun!
Excerpt: I've been improving the sortable table javascript a lot in the past days, loads of bugs have been fixed, and I've set up a small email newsletter to those interested, if you'd like to be included in that, here are signup instructions. Let me know what you think about this script and how I could impr…
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November 5th
0Update to sortable table script
Excerpt: Ok, i've fixed one hell of a bug in the table sorting script which must have been in there for at least 2 months, screwing up sorting incredibly, sorry for that. I added in a new feature as well, you can now have dates formatted as 01-Jan-1970, and it will sort these right as well. Let me know if y…
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November 2nd
21W3C Validator API
Excerpt: The W3C announced the release of an API for the HTML validator or rather, that's what they call it. In fact, it's nothing more than an output filter on their normal validator output, which gives SOAP 1.2 conforming output. It requires a HTTP request though, which makes it a rather funny "API" to dea…
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October 11th
3Does Internet Explorer 7 like your website?
Excerpt: The IE blog recently announced that Internet Explorer 7 will be available for users in a few weeks time, delivering it to user via automatic update a few weeks later. This gives you a few weeks to make sure your sites are rendered correctly in the browser that a major part of your users will be usin…
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September 11th
2New design!
Excerpt: As you can see, or if you're reading this from a feed, you should see, this site has had a redesign. The new layout has a fully intended web2.0 feel to it, with improved readability as one of the main enhancements. I've added some other stuff as well, for instance: the blog now supports gravatars…
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August 7th
0SEO, Webdesign, e-commerce: you should do it all
Excerpt: Or none of it... The longer i work in this business, the more i feel you can either do it all, or do nothing at all, because you need to have a pretty good knowledge of say, webdesign, to do SEO, or of SEO to do e-commerce or... etc. etc .etc. Some companies do it all, and call it "innovative online…
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August 7th
0Funny way of connecting webdesigners and clients
Excerpt: Vendorseek has a funny way of connecting web designers and clients for web design services... Maybe i should sign up for the other end of it too :). Seriously, i've seen occasions were people pay way to much for web design services, this is a nice solution for it.…
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August 7th
1Why pay for web design?
Excerpt: The intention of most people who decide to create a new website is to create a steady source of income for themselves. So some people may wonder why they should spend some of their budget on paying someone else to design and create their websites. The truth is that there are many reasons why having …
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July 17th
0Small update to table sorting script
Excerpt: My table sorting javascript has been updated slightly. It now supports sorting of €x.xxx amounts, where it didn't support the € sign first, and it now supports the xx.xx.xxxx date format.…
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May 4th
1Conditional comments
Excerpt: I added a small new section to the code section of this site: some info about conditional comments. I've found them to be very useful, and they'll be one of the only ways of hacking around IE to remain when IE7 comes to the market, so i'd say: look at them :). [tags]conditional comments, html, cs…
