Posts in the Web Development category

• How to optimise your CSS code

  14 September 2007 by Clive Walker

  Code Beautifier is a useful website that optimises and formats CSS files. The website will take your style sheet file, remove whitespace, clean up style rules by removing unnecessary characters.

• Safari for Windows so far

  05 September 2007 by Clive Walker

  I downloaded Safari 3 beta for Windows when it first came out because I wanted to use it as part of my browser testing suite for website development. I have used it on and off since then and here are my impressions.

• Wireframing with CSS

  28 August 2007 by Clive Walker

  Wireframe prototyping is a useful method for illustrating the elements that comprise a website layout before the actual design is created. A website wireframe can provide a basis for discussion with clients and enable the web developer to confirm ideas about the placement of page elements, such as navigation, functionality, and content. It can be very useful as a starting point for your thinking process.

• Mashing up RSS feeds with Textpattern

  09 August 2007 by Clive Walker

  Over the past few days, I have been investigating methods for combining RSS feeds from different sources and displaying the results.

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• Building a tabbed menu with Adobe Spry in Dreamweaver

  03 July 2007 by Clive Walker

  When you have a lot of text content on a webpage, it's tempting to split it up into multiple pages. However, on some occasions (for example, a FAQs page), it may be better to use a single page but show/hide various sections of the content using JavaScript (of course, always making sure that content is accessible to users with JavaScript turned off).

• JavaScript table sorting

  22 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  I know we are not building websites using tables for layout any more (ahem) but tables are still the best way of displaying related data.

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• Tails you win....

  13 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  Dan Glegg gave a great presentation at the third £5 App meeting where he described the process of developing Tails, which is a collaborative bug tracking web application for teams of web developers, web designers, cooks (yes, really) and…. in fact, any group that collaborates on a project could use this application.

• Safari browser for Windows

  11 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  One of the problems that any Windows-based web designer faces is how to test any newly created website on an Apple Mac and, in particular, with Apple's browser Safari.

• All about APIs, mashups, and microformats

  06 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  There's a great article on Digital Web Magazine called APIs and Mashups For The Rest Of Us by Gareth Rushgrove. The article explains what an API is and how websites uses these extensively nowadays.

• CSS layout builder tool

  29 May 2007 by Clive Walker

  When working with cascading style sheets (CSS), it’s useful to have a variety of solid CSS-based layouts that you can call on at short notice. After all, ‘two column with header and footer’ can get kinda boring if you work with it all the time.