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This is an email interview that I did for Matt Mickiewicz over at SitePoint – it’s to go into a newsletter that goes out to SitePoint’s various sales reps and distributors. I’m not sure it it’s going to be used anywhere else online, but I thought it would be useful to publish here anyway – [...]

My book got a mention on Boagworld’s podcast, and I thought I’d transcribe and respond to some of the comments Paul made here:

"It’s called Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way using HTML and CSS. What a nice snappy title! He needs to work on his title a bit."

Yeah, not my choice [...]

From the moment I was first introduced to photo-sharing site Flickr, I was smitten. I loved it – loved the interaction it offered, loved the ease with which I was able to upload and share photos, loved the fact that storage and bandwidth allowance was so high (beyond what I’d be able to upload on [...]

I’m thrilled to announce that my book, Build Your Own Website the Right Way Using HTML and CSS, is now out on SitePoint. I received my personal copies today and am really pleased with the end result (it’s surprising how much fun it is to re-read your own work in this format … but it’s [...]

Following on from the Simply Google idea that he came up with a little while ago (which I re-coded for him in nice standards-based markup with unobtrusive scripts) Chris McEvoy has done the same thing with the BBC. Predictably entitled Simply BBC, it’s another one-stop entrance to all things BBC. And once again, it’s based [...]

My esteemed colleague Chris McEvoy apparently had ‘one of his moments’ (he has these, you know) last Sunday evening and decided he was fed up with having to search Google for some of Google’s more hidden features (oh the irony!), such as Answers, Suggest and so on. So he created Simply Google.

Is it simpler?
Mmm, [...]

I posted this over at webstandards.org earlier, but thought I’d cross-post it here for my approximate 2.3 average daily readers (hi sis! Hello, erm , me!): April 5th is CSS Naked Day, and this site will be bearing all. To be honest, all I’ll be showing is the markup that *someone else* created for this [...]

The book heads for the printing press the end of next week. Yeehaw!
Update: the book is now available for pre-order on Amazon UK and Amazon.com (thanks for pointing that out, Craig).
In the meantime, here’s what the book might look like if you just happened to have the world’s shiniest table to stand it up on:

This is an experiment to see if it’s possible to selectively print sections of a large document usings CSS print styles after the page has loaded without affecting the on-screen display.
Why might you use this? Well, the inspiration came from a page of interest rates from banking and savings products. Customers have often complained that [...]

Ever the apologist, here I am again justifying lack of activity on this site (and some others) over the last year or two (the list of other time-suckers can be found here). What’s the justification this time? Well, it’s a good one.
While travelling around the globe a couple of years ago, I started doing some [...]