As any new web developer (or a developer dabbling with CSS for the first time) will know, positioning elements with CSS can really make your head hurt. Should it be relative, absolute, fixed? And where are the coordinated relative to? This post by Rob MacKay explains each positioning method in detail, and definitely worth reading. Even if you’re a CSS guru, I reckon that you’ll pick up or remember something that you’d forgotten about or didn’t know.
Feedburner Subscriber Count Problems
A few months ago when the switch was made from the Feedburner to Google servers and algorithms, many sites noticed that their subscriber count was lower, or worse, zero. It’s happened again. Even me, on this small time developer blog, have noticed a drop in numbers of around 30%. Jeff Star of Perishable press has posted a great write up on the recent subscriber drops, well worth a read.
CSS Naked Day
What a bloomin’ marvellous idea. On CSS naked day (9th April this year), you might notice a lot of websites loose thier styling. It’s the brain child of Dustin Diaz, and it’s aim is to help us all to write more semantic (X)HTML. By considering the design with no CSS, it forces us to write better and better structured markup. Will you be joining in this year?
RefreshYourCache.com
Isn’t it annoying when you make an update to a site, but your client is absolutely convinced that you haven’t done anything because their browser simply refuses to reload that image/javascript/css file? Then of course there’s the trying to get them to tell you which browser they’re using so that you can advise them on how to clear the cache. RefreshYourCache.com will save you a lot of frustration and ripping your hair out. It even detects the browser and shows an easy to follow step-by-step guide. Now THAT’S what I’m talking about.
Introducing Opera Face Gestures
Opera announced today that they will be introducing face gestures into future releases of their browser to help speed up browsing. It was around 8 years ago that they introduced mouse gestures, and once again it looks like they will be revolutionising the market. Although judging by the date and time of the announcement, I wouldn’t get too excited about seeing this feature any time soon ;)
Create a unique gallery by using z-index and jQuery
Quite an interesting post about creating (another) image gallery using jQuery. This one is not another of those lightbox clones though. This one uses a clever combination of z-index and movement to create the effect of looking through a stack of photographs as you would if they were in your hand.
IE Death March
So today I dropped support for IE6. Infact, if you’re using IE6, you won’t even see this post, you’ll see a blue screen of death. IE Death March is (I think) a brilliant idea and please help me and many others to start an internet revolution.
10 fixes that solve IE6 problems
As you may know, I’m a big fan of not using CSS hacks. They clutter up your stylesheets making them unreadable and very hard to maintain. This article from sitepoint explains how to nudge (surprise surprise) IE6 into displaying your pages correctly without having to use hacks or IE specific stylesheets. Definitely worth a read.
Sub pixel problems in CSS
John Resig has done a bit of research into what happens in different browsers when you do things like setting the width of a div to 25% when it’s parent is 100 pixels. It’s quite an interesting read, and might help to explain why layouts break in different ways in the various browsers.
Exactly how to use CSS sprites
In what appears to be an unintentional reoccurring theme, I have found a video tutorial from Nettuts which should help to explain a bit more. I’m not usually one for screencasts, but as we’re all a bit different, you might find them useful, so enjoy!
