I’ve had a couple of several-hundred-word posts hanging around on this topic for months now, but my frustration has finally got to the point where the technical stuff can wait – if you have a weblog which has centred text (even Hivelogic and Andy Budd fall foul of this) then make your contents elastic!

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How many links do you see? How about here? The answers are three and zero respe...

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The WellStyled Workshop is yet another website about how to use standards-compliant code and CSS techniques to keep code clean, readable and semantic. Normally I’d just file this away under my del.icio.us links, but this one’s slightly different. Whilst t...

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I really thought sites like this didn’t exist any more. Ads everywhere, animated gif ads at that, narrow content, tacky icons and a mid-sized content spread over 6 pages. Jesus. I clicked the “Print version” icon of an article hoping to be taken to a plain text version all on one page that might actually be useful to me. Who was I trying to kid? T...

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I’ve just subscribed to threetwo female bloggers which now takes my the total number of female blogger to whom I’m subscribed to, uh, threetwo. Eris Anne van Kesteren

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Sadly my new job has been too busy so far for me slip back into the blogging vibe, but may as well try and kick myself into gear…. After I was looking for one on Tuesday, yesterday I saw this: Sketsa is a vector drawing application based on SVG. via Erik How...

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Through the eye of a Mac browser View your site in Safari without having either a Mac or Safari – not bad! You pass it the URL of the site you want to view in Safari, and on Dan’s Mac it loads the page in Safari, takes a screenshot and posts it to the web, where it remains for 24 hours for you to check. The machine was getting a...

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Website redesign! Work in progress – it looks pretty bad in IE (especially Win98 and 2000), but ace in Mozilla-based browsers, and not too bad in Konqueror, Safari and on WinXP.

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Back in July, I wrote Keeping to the web theme, mozilla.org has a new site, designed to be more appealing to end users instead of developers. … [but] it’s particularly strange that the website of one of the most standards-compliant browsers was designed with tables.

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Everyone already knows about the excellent SimpleBits, and until recently I’d just been visiting every now and then to see how the SimpleQuiz series was progressing, but recently there have been two really great tutorials: Styling nested lists and

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