Today, I finally managed to get a presence for my screencasts on iTunes. Actually, screencasts have been on my site for a while, but after spending time and research on delivering video with HTML5, I thought it was time to get some experience it that area too.
You can subscribe to the screencasts on iTunes here.
Posted on 02 Dec 2010 around 11am • Tagged with: How I do things | Permanent link to this article
I am not a big Facebook user (sorry!), but I needed to know how to add a Facebook 'Like' badge to my pages. It may seem relatively easy if you go to the Facebook developers section. However, we really like to make all our pages validate and we are using the XHTML 1.0 strict doctype. You can read how I found a way of doing it here.
Posted on 09 Nov 2010 around 9am • Tagged with: How I do things | Web Technology | Permanent link to this article
This debate has gone on out there amongst web developers and user interface designers for some time. There are various issues that crop up when discussing this, but, generally, we should leave the user to control how links open but allowing then to use their browser as they prefer.
Posted on 22 Sep 2009 around 8am • Tagged with: Design | How I do things | Permanent link to this article
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.
Posted on 08 Jul 2008 around 11am • Tagged with: ExpressionEngine | How I do things | Ideas | Permanent link to this article
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.
Posted on 21 Jun 2007 around 10am • Tagged with: CSS | How I do things | Web Technology | Permanent link to this article
