CSS Media Types
In the “sharp knives may be dangerous in unskilled hands” category comes this lesson. I had, as part of the process of converting the site to validate against W3C standards, changed the method … Read more
Blogging
Do You Know What I Mean?
Former colleague, and well known author and educator Dave Taylor has put together a site that should be useful to all authors. The site performs a number of standard readability tests, including the … Read more
Validation Pitfalls
After a couple of hours effort last night my archive templates now all validate as either XHTML 1.0 strict or XHTML 1.1. That’s not to say all the content validates, however. The main … Read more
Site Validates as XHTML!
In what turned out to be a relatively painless exercise, I made this site validate against the XHTML 1.0 strict specification. Though I started out with over 500 errors, many of them were … Read more
PHP CSS Style Switcher
Last night I decided to take another look at the idea of providing a way for visitors to this site to be able to change the color scheme. I had the “grey” look … Read more
eTech04 Backchannel
One aspect of the eTech04 conference that I found intriguing was the back channel IRC (chat) experience. Always on, almost always active, #etech and #joiito provided an alternate view of the conference; at … Read more
Honor of the Salesman
is a blog covering the dark side of retail, viewed with a wry perspective from the “other” side of the counter. The featured image (which may only be displayed on the index pages, … Read more