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In reality I never got the Archive working nicely when the site was live - all it did back then was loop through URL IDs. What you see here is far nicer than was ever "live".

Articles posted under "web development"

2012

Aug

Why I don't use frameworks | Sun, 26th Aug 2012

Jun

Comment Control | Mon, 25th Jun 2012
Commissioning a website | Sat, 2nd Jun 2012

May

Managing responsive designs is hard, so let's use our <head> | Sun, 13th May 2012
A better method than <picture> and srcset? | Sun, 13th May 2012
Opera further messes up the vendor prefix mess | Sat, 12th May 2012
Different Flexsliders at different display sizes | Sat, 5th May 2012
Vendor Prefixes, the wider problem. | Wed, 2nd May 2012

Mar

How do we deal with images in HTML? | Thu, 22nd Mar 2012
Why I love working on the web | Wed, 21st Mar 2012
Responsive design: fixing our sensors and technology. | Wed, 14th Mar 2012

Feb

Impending problems with authoring responsive designs | Sun, 26th Feb 2012
It's time we got browsers to stop supporting vendor prefixes | Thu, 9th Feb 2012
A proposal to browser vendors; reliable feature detection via SPDY | Mon, 6th Feb 2012
The responsive design process | Wed, 1st Feb 2012

Jan

A week with the www-style mailing list | Sun, 15th Jan 2012
Choosing device sizes to support for your responsive designs | Sun, 8th Jan 2012
CSS3 wish-list: blending modes | Sun, 8th Jan 2012
Webkit internal optimisations could be pushed to a new feature? | Mon, 2nd Jan 2012
Getting started with web development | Sun, 1st Jan 2012

2011

Dec

Adaptive Images for Responsive Designs | Sat, 31st Dec 2011
Web developer tips, tricks, and gotcha's | Wed, 21st Dec 2011

Aug

Adaptive Images | Sat, 27th Aug 2011
CSS needs a bit of basic love | Sat, 27th Aug 2011
On using statistics to inform your design choices | Fri, 26th Aug 2011
Why can't we trigger CSS3 Animations using :hover and :focus? | Mon, 1st Aug 2011

Jul

Naming and using id's and classes properly | Mon, 25th Jul 2011
Responsive <img> elements in HTML, for Responsive Designs | Tue, 19th Jul 2011
Does <nav> belong in the <header> element? | Tue, 12th Jul 2011
CSS Lint is harmful | Sat, 9th Jul 2011

Mar

When emulation isn't emulation. Microsoft IE9 and it's IE8/7 modes | Wed, 2nd Mar 2011

2010

Jul

Supplying high definition content and design to Retina devices like the iPhone 4 | Sun, 11th Jul 2010
Retina Display and high-definition embeded media | Thu, 8th Jul 2010

Jan

HTML5 wrapping anchor behaviour | Tue, 19th Jan 2010
CSS inline/block nuances | Tue, 12th Jan 2010
Why did I stop blogging? | Sun, 3rd Jan 2010

2009

May

How could the CSS WG could improve matters? | Thu, 7th May 2009
My feelings on the effectivness of the W3C CSS Working Group | Wed, 6th May 2009

2008

Dec

The fundamental problems with CSS3 | Tue, 9th Dec 2008
Firefox jQuery Accordion bug with display:table-cell | Fri, 5th Dec 2008

Nov

CSS Tables for layout are A Bad Idea. | Thu, 20th Nov 2008

Oct

Relative readability | Tue, 21st Oct 2008

Sep

HTML5 to be released in 2022. W3C are officially a joke. | Thu, 11th Sep 2008

Aug

IE8 Beta 2 is out, vast improvement, but misses the mark with standards compliance yet again | Thu, 28th Aug 2008
The fundamental problem with CSS is it's reliance on the DOM | Wed, 13th Aug 2008
Mozilla Labs: Aurora browser concept | Tue, 5th Aug 2008

Jul

Web design is not print design | Fri, 25th Jul 2008

Apr

Why CSS needs to borrow from programming languages | Thu, 24th Apr 2008
URL design - hackable URLs and search engine optimisation | Sun, 20th Apr 2008
Social websites and voting systems: ditch the down-vote | Sun, 13th Apr 2008

Mar

Edge to edge alignment with CSS | Sun, 23rd Mar 2008
Website template, spring 2008 | Mon, 10th Mar 2008
IE8 beta 1 now available | Wed, 5th Mar 2008

Feb

IE6 random crash, error in mshtml.dll | Mon, 25th Feb 2008

Jan

HTML5 is not backward compatible | Thu, 24th Jan 2008
Goodbye DOCTYPE switching, hello META targeting | Tue, 22nd Jan 2008
In response to "Tell the CSS-WG what you want from CSS3" | Mon, 21st Jan 2008

2007

Dec

What is wrong with Web Standards today | Tue, 18th Dec 2007
The future of Web Standards | Mon, 17th Dec 2007
HTML5 and CSS3 are doomed to disaster? | Wed, 5th Dec 2007

Nov

Arguing against web standards | Fri, 30th Nov 2007

Oct

ActiveCollab goes commercial | Fri, 5th Oct 2007

Jul

A guide to web design for print designers | Sun, 29th Jul 2007
Complete HTML character code reference | Sun, 29th Jul 2007
Working at Karova is fun | Fri, 6th Jul 2007

Jun

Setting up a WAMP under Windows Vista | Tue, 26th Jun 2007
Colour profiling on the web | Wed, 20th Jun 2007

May

Just what are the W3C playing at? | Mon, 7th May 2007

Apr

Web Development Round-up | Thu, 19th Apr 2007
Dreamhost, back on track | Sun, 8th Apr 2007

Mar

Stopping browsers from remembering form field data | Wed, 28th Mar 2007
New W3C HTML Working Group activity | Thu, 8th Mar 2007

Feb

How I cross-browser test my HTML and CSS. | Mon, 26th Feb 2007
Demographics applied to the web | Sun, 25th Feb 2007
Getting a blank page in Internet Explorer, but not in other browsers? | Thu, 15th Feb 2007
Karova newsletter | Wed, 14th Feb 2007

2006

Dec

Firebug 1.0 | Tue, 5th Dec 2006
Setting up a new site on a local server under Apache2 | Tue, 5th Dec 2006
Microformats, a year and a half on... | Fri, 1st Dec 2006

Oct

Form reset buttons | Sun, 1st Oct 2006

Aug

Skip links: visible or hidden... A solution? | Wed, 23rd Aug 2006
When to use CSS generated content | Wed, 23rd Aug 2006

Jul

Dreamhost | Wed, 19th Jul 2006
Using Flash, facts and opinions | Tue, 4th Jul 2006
100% Flash websites, a rant | Sat, 1st Jul 2006

Jun

Time to forget 800x600? Dealing with display resolutions... | Sun, 25th Jun 2006

May

Photoshop web design template | Tue, 23rd May 2006
2006 redesign - CSS techniques | Mon, 22nd May 2006
Karova mantras | Wed, 17th May 2006
Organising CSS, revisited | Sun, 14th May 2006
Google Gmail CAPTCHA | Fri, 12th May 2006

Apr

Dealing with ‘poor’ client or colleague choices | Sun, 9th Apr 2006
‘Karova Design’ launches | Thu, 6th Apr 2006

2005

Jun

Photoshop Swatches | Tue, 14th Jun 2005
Organising CSS | Sun, 12th Jun 2005
A brief update on the re-design | Sun, 12th Jun 2005

May

Firefox and alternate print styles | Sun, 22nd May 2005
Content Management Systems, and Google Web Accelerator | Sat, 7th May 2005

Apr

To WordPress, or not to WordPress? | Sun, 17th Apr 2005
Language and the Internet | Sun, 10th Apr 2005

2004

Nov

XHTML Strict pop-up windows | Sun, 21st Nov 2004

Oct

Old School Web Design | Sat, 23rd Oct 2004

Sep

Amazon A9 & FirefoxPR | Thu, 16th Sep 2004
Anti-Virus, the validation killer | Sun, 5th Sep 2004
Web Standard Design | Sat, 21st Aug 2004

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