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The Decline Of Internet Explorer 6?
Recently I've been looking at some new sites made by various designers and developers and I've begun to notice a trend. The obvious use of CSS3 and HTML5 has risen dramatically since the beginning of the year. This makes me wonder, is it because people have finally stopped caring so much about IE6 looking visually identical as all the other browsers? I'd certainly like to think so! One recent incident regarding this comes from the sites I've been working on at work. I've been m...
Posted Wed 28th Jul @ 15:30 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Microsoft Could Support IE6 For Longer!
I know it's the most depressing news you've probably heard for a long time, but Microsoft are talking about extending the life of Windows XP based on a fact that 74% of work PC's still run the 4 and a half year old OS.This could potentially mean that IE6 (which shipped with the original versions of XP and therefore must be supported as long as the OS) could well be supported for a longer length of time too to accommodate businesses that don't want to update their IE6-specific software until they...
Posted Wed 14th Jul @ 15:01 by ahallicks | Comments 0
CSS3 Rounded Images Without Clipping
Have you ever tried to style an image in CSS3 with a border radius of anything except 0? If you have you may have noticed that the image clips outside of the container, which looks absolutely horrible! The desired effect would be for the image to sit below the border and clip underneath so it looks like the image has a nice rounded corner. However, because of this (Firefox?) bug, the desired effect cannot be achieved this way.However, there is a workaround! (Actually there's a couple, but this i...
Posted Wed 7th Jul @ 16:17 by ahallicks | Comments 0
The Complete Guide To Commenting On Any Blog
I read this post this morning and it cannot be closer to the thruth of it. I'll sum it up below but you should really go ahead and check it out and read the whole post for yourself as it's very intuitive. The Complete Guide to Commenting on Web Design Blogs Read the Whole Article :-) If you've posted comments on blog posts before have you always read the whole post before commenting? I will admit that I have not always done so, and generally had good reason....
Posted Wed 7th Jul @ 14:19 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Eric Meyer On CSS3
Okay, if you haven't read this amazing article on alistapart I think you should head over there now and read it.Eric Meyer (of so much CSS fame, if you don't know who he is you're here for the wrong reasons! Or if you would like to learn head overt to Complex Spiral and be amazed!) delivers a beautifully written, and very comprehendable argument for the use of vendor prefixes in CSS3.The article basically states that the vendor prefix (e.g. -moz, -webkit) is a great way to allow vendors to test,...
Posted Tue 6th Jul @ 16:06 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Star Rating Script PHP And MySQL Tutorial
If you have been to this blog before you may know that I have released a script written in JavaScript that allows you to easily add star ratings to anything you require. You can find that blog here.However, in that blog I didn't go through the steps required to actually save the rating. After being contacted asking for help on the matter and wanting to write an nice introduction to PHP and MySQL I felt that this would be a good time to kill two birds with one stone. So, read on to learn how to w...
Posted Fri 18th Jun @ 08:42 by ahallicks | Comments 3
Simple CSS Debugging Methods
Firebug, Firebug, Firebug!If you are a web developer and you haven't heard of Firebug you need to get it now! It is a free Firefox addon that lets you traverse the contents of any web page, view the CSS, view the javascript, debug your scripts and edit them live. Basically, everything you could want from a development tool. And the best part is that it's free!All you need to do to use it is download it/install it (if you are not using Firefox you can download the Lite version (installation instr...
Posted Tue 15th Jun @ 10:37 by ahallicks | Comments 0
The Acid 3 Test - The Latest Browser Results
Whilst browsing the Internet today I came across this great letter, which contained a link to a blog written by Internet Explorer and how IE9 is going to eventually almost comply to the acid 3 test (although the time that happens the acid 4 test will have been released and IE9 won't have a chance!). This led me to wonder how the current array of popular and up-to-date browser versions are complying with the acid 3 test as it stands today. The results were interesting in some cases, bhut as yo...
Posted Tue 18th May @ 22:28 by ahallicks | Comments 3
How Has Social Media Helped You 'Find The Web'?
Since the introduction of Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms it's safe to say that the interaction on the web has risen by a substantial factor. I cannot think of a single commericial industry that either hasn't had or couldn't have a positive impact from reaching into the social media stream. A brilliant example of this can be found here entitled "How Social Media and the Web Helped Avatar Make $1 Billion". This story is quite amazing and just shows the extent to which social...
Posted Thu 13th May @ 12:16 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Do RSS Feeds Detract From Website Traffic Trends?
Is it just me, or do RSS feeds detract the user from a website? Let me try to explain what I mean by this. Recently, because I've been reading a lot, and particularly a lot from Smashing Magazine (@smashingmag), I've installed a Firefox add-on called "Google Reader Watcher", which allows me to instantly see how many feeds I have unread in my statusbar. That's just great! It means i don't have to go and check myself and when something new pops up I click it and it takes me to my Google Reader...
Posted Thu 6th May @ 15:30 by ahallicks | Comments 0
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The Decline Of Internet Explorer 6?
Recently I've been looking at some new sites made by various designers and developers and I've begun to notice a trend. The obvious use of CSS3 and HT...
read moreMicrosoft Could Support IE6 For Longer!
I know it's the most depressing news you've probably heard for a long time, but Microsoft are talking about extending the life of Windows XP based on...
read moreCSS3 Rounded Images Without Clipping
Have you ever tried to style an image in CSS3 with a border radius of anything except 0? If you have you may have noticed that the image clips outside...
read moreThe Complete Guide To Commenting On Any Blog
I read this post this morning and it cannot be closer to the thruth of it. I'll sum it up below but you should really go ahead and check it out and re...
read moreEric Meyer On CSS3
Okay, if you haven't read this amazing article on alistapart I think you should head over there now and read it.Eric Meyer (of so much CSS fame, if yo...
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