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December 2008

Progressive enhancement with CSS3

This rather good tutorial explains how to create brilliant 2.0-esque buttons using only text and CSS – NO IMAGES. It shows you how to take advantage of the slow emergence of browsers which understand CSS3 properties such as border radius and the like. Even if you’re not going to use this method, it’s a useful [...]

Best of 2008 – Graphic Design Tutorials

I know that slightlymore is a development based blog, but this new post on Design Shack couldn’t slip past without a mention. It contains a brilliant set of tutorials (well, you’d hope for brilliant after a whole year, wouldn’t you!) from all over the interweb including ‘Magic lighting effect’, ‘Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography’ and [...]

Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid

A rather good article by Wilson Miner on one of my favourite sites, A List Apart. He explains how to do something that print designers have been able to do for millennia, align your type to a baseline grid. This means that the bottoms of lines will always line up in a multi-column layout. Nice.

Better, faster and more robust rollovers with CSS sprites

Learn how to create faster, standards compliant, javascript-less and accessible buttons using only CSS. Even the most hard-core of javascript programmers will admit that actually, they might have done this by mistake. And I promise to show you how, and if you’re lucky explain why.

I’ll even tell you what a sprite is.

Google, Yahoo and Adobe Flash Crawling Experiment – Flash ‘n’ SEO Indexing

Google claims to now understand and index Flash content. Do we believe it? The clever people over at webdesign beach have set up an entire site to test just that. And the cheeky little devils embedded the text in various ways to catch google out.

British Standard for web accessibility – draft

The lovely people over at the British Standards have released a draft version of BS 8878:2009 (Web accessibility – Building accessible experiences for disabled people – Code of practice). It’s open for comments until 31st January 2009 so have a read and let them know what you think!

Me on the intertubes

It wouldn't be right to have a web site, be a nerd, and not take this opportunity for a bit of shameless pluggery.

If you like all these weird and magic internet page things, you should try Coaster Nerd, Oxford Bloggers or, if you'd really like some unexplainable sourcery, is it the weekend yet.

Also you should follow me on Twitter ;)

Where to find me

I can be found fairly regularly at Oxford Geek Nights, OxTuttle and other general nerding out activities in and around Oxford.

I am also often found in my natural habitat which is anywhere that you can find an adreneline machine. I frequent English theme parks more often than is healthy, and take trips abroad to sample foreign rides.

From the aviary

Was having a decidedly crap day of development. Just got much better. It's nice when things go your way. #win 1 day ago

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These posts were written at the time of writing and may not still be accurate or reflect my opinions any more. In fact, they may not even be correct or representative at the time of writing. You see, when I write, I just write. I don't do that thing which they always told you to do at school and plan what you want to write first. Because of this, there will almost certainly be a load of typos, grammar errors and incorrect facts and references. If this makes you feel queasy, I apologise that you had to get to the bottom of the page to read this, and hope that some day, you'll learn to forgive me.

What's this site?

Slightlymore started off all too formally for my liking. In the depths of the archives, you'll find tutorials. However if you read the more recent posts, you'll find them a lot more playful and about fun and interesting stuff.

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