Category Archives: Web

Get up and running with @font-face

By David Oliver | Published: March 17, 2010
Here’s a very quick introduction to using the CSS fonts module intended for web designers who have a good knowledge of CSS but haven’t as yet experimented with @font-face rules. Internet Explorer 6 onwards and recent versions of all mainstream browsers support the CSS fonts module.
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Web designers, “coding” and semantics

By David Oliver | Published: February 18, 2010
It seems a lot of web designers are under the notion that typing anything other than a natural language into a text editor or IDE counts as "coding".
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Firefox Personas for web designers

By David Oliver | Published: February 6, 2010
Firefox 3.6 brings with it native support for personas (“lightweight themes”) – an easy way of changing the basic appearance of the Firefox user interface. Here are four options available from Personas (which are an improvement on the cheapy Aero Windows look) that work well with Firebug and are neutral, tasteful and usable.
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Introductory resources for learning about Linked Data (the “semantic web”) and RDFa

By David Oliver | Published: January 26, 2010
Including linked data in a machine-readable (as well as a human-readable) format blows open the possibilities of what we can do with it.
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Hacking ‘paragraph spacing’ with CSS (despite IE)

By David Oliver | Published: January 23, 2010
I feel that now is a good time to finally start using more of the CSS2 and CSS3 goodness in my web page styling [...], so I'll be testing these projects further with a view to settling on a solution.
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Advising clients to ditch Internet Explorer

By David Oliver | Published: January 19, 2010
Now seemed like a good time to encourage clients to start using something other than Internet Explorer, so I’ve written the following email and will send it out to my web clients later today. Hello all I’m emailing my clients to recommend that they switch from Microsoft Internet Explorer to a more secure web browser in light [...]
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The electric toothbrush – an example of graceful degradation

By David Oliver | Published: January 3, 2010
Even though it had either developed a fault or lost access to its power source, it degraded gracefully, allowing me to continue using it for its intended purpose.
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Some of what I will do in 2010

By David Oliver | Published: January 1, 2010
A holiday period is finishing and I'm aware that several things "need" doing in my life, but I also have interests I want to make sure I pursue.
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