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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 [...]

Having been on sale for just under a year and a half, I recently got the second sales report for my book and it’s done better than I hoped. Sure it’s not a seller in the region of JK Rowling or anything, but the sales figures are pretty respectable for a book [...]

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 [...]

Maybe you do, and maybe you don’t – or at least not as well as you thought you did. Paul Haine is certainly hoping that you don’t feel in any shame in putting yourself in the latter category otherwise his hard work on HTML Mastery will be for nothing. The book, which is due out [...]

I’ve had a lot of things on the go recently and I’ve been remiss in not doing a bit of self-promotion (and promotion for fellow authors Dan Rubin and Jeff Croft) for a certain CSS book. Pro CSS is the title and it does exactly what it says on the tin – it teaches professional [...]

Just over two years ago, I made a point of calling in to the offices of SitePoint in Melbourne , Australia . I was in town, passing through as part of my year-long world travels, and wanted to meet some of the people there who I’d emailed and written a few articles for in the [...]

Just a quick note to say I’ve had a little bit of time off and have just come back from Prague, my second time there. In traditional fashion, I’ve spent far too much of my free time after the event documenting it before it all evaporates. Note: the design of this travelogue isn’t up to [...]

Well, I was gonna write something witty about this but it’s 1:30am and my to-do list remains long and ‘to-be-done’ so I’m just gonna post this ‘charming’ email I received earlier from a nutbag who went from asking nicely for some help with something on my book to completely flipping and being abusive. Spelling errors [...]