Filed under How I do things
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Where pages are very long, like a list of events or news items, we might want a way to quickly move back the top of the page.
You will have seen ‘back to the Top’ or some such phrase used on web sites. I have always hated seeing that phrse, because ‘top’ doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Words lke this just distract from the real content.
There are often times, though that pages become very long when lots of items (like in a blog) are listed, and it really does help if there is a quick way to get back to the navigation and menus etc.
Here is what I am doing on a few sites.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Been away from posting up here for a bit. Two reasons:
We had a great holiday in Mallorca and I had a lot of catching up to do. Also I have been busy getting started on the rebuild of the school (within our university) home page. Loads more to do on the layouts across the site.
I thought I would share some of the CSS / XHTML issues that have come up. This has been a case of taking other folks work and building on it and making a few changes that seem important to me.
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Late to the party as usual but ...
I am using Twitter to log my every day activities. When the mood strikes me though!
You can see the results on my own site here using a Plug-in for ExpressionEngine.
Friday, March 09, 2007
A couple of times recently this has presented a problem and an interesting challenge.
Poets create their work with a view to wanting a particular layout of the words. Some may prefer the lines centred and others left aligned. Some poets may want their poems displayed with the wrapped line (where it is a long line) centred or right aligned.
So what would be the best way to display poems? What have others done to resolve this complex issue?
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Monday, September 11, 2006
Here is a set of photos from a recent family holiday on the Greek islands of Paros and Naxos.
So as to make this topical and relevant to PageToScreen, I am adding here a few remarks about my experiences in a couple of internet cafes, while trying to keep in touch with projects that are on the go right now.
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