Blog Standard Stuff

It has to be said, it’s been hard to find many negative comments about my beginners’ HTML & CSS book (the evidence speaks for itself), but one comment I received early on, from a work colleague no less, was this:
“That plane wouldn’t fly.”
Oh yes … so it wouldn’t. In choosing a child’s toy for [...]

So, I said that I didn’t know if I ever wanted to write a book again. Apparently I lied.
As the image at the top of this post suggests (assuming that you are looking at the blog version and not [...]

I had all these great ideas about how I was going to approach this. I thought of looking into patents, to see if I could document my idea, protect it and then get someone to build it. But I realised fairly soon that this was a whole can of worms that I did not want [...]

And before I get flamed for that, I’m making a direct reference to one of Apple’s memorable announcements in days past, namely the time that iTunes was announced for Windows users. Mac fans around the world grumbled that their nice little music library application was being shared amongst the great unwashed but soon got over [...]

As spotted in a feed somewhere in my masses of news feeds this morning, the new AOL page – looks quite a bit like Yahoo!, doesn’t it?
Click on the thumbnail to see a comparison (it’s a 2.8mb animated gif).

[Note - I was accessing AOL's site from work and it appears to be missing some content [...]

Shortly after SXSW Interactive wrapped up this year I received an email from someone asking if I’d be willing to answer a few questions about my web design processes. It was kinda funny in that I’m not usually all that methodical where process is concerned (!), and most times I’m hard pushed to call myself [...]

It’s been a while since I looked at how my book has been doing. It arrived in printed format just over a year ago, so it’s a little off the radar now, if you catch my drift. Today, though, I had a look on Amazon.com for something and my book came up as a recommendation, [...]

I’ve written an article which is published on Think Vitamin about the thorny subject of accesskeys. Love ‘em or loathe ‘em, they can be useful to some people, but not necessarily when they are forced on people. In the article I demonstrate how JavaScript and the DOM can be used to set and recall chosen [...]

Some time I ago, I seemed to be getting a lot of requests to add people as contacts at LinkedIn, for which I was already a signed up member. I could only put it down to a post-conference flurry of activity or something that happened after a blog post somewhere (I can remember Molly posting [...]

Sometimes you don’t realise just how much you rely on something until someone takes it away from you. I’m not thinking legs, eyes, internal organs and such like, nothing that important, but nonetheless I really suffered when Bloglines stopped working for me at work (is that ironic -at work, not working?). I had put all [...]