Archive for June, 2006
Chicken chocolate
The BBC today reported a Cadbury recall after health fears. Apparently, this is not due to the high cholesterol and obvious chocolate life attacks, but now there is salmonella in our chocolate. I have heard of free gifts and text to win footballs, but salmonella is possibly taking the notion a bit far. In the list of products there is one rather concerning entry of Dairy Milk buttons easter egg – being that easter was a few months ago this is rather odd to be mentioned now.
Web time pie
Nice chart of the time spent on things by a web designer from Poisoned minds. I am still sure I spend more than that time swearing – well for me add muttering and ranting also.
Web standard ethics aren’t black and white
If you work in the web and you have yet to hear about web standards, you have probably been hiding under a tabled rock for a good few years. It is agreed that in principle using web standards is a good thing. So, nothing new. Thing is, there are many issues that come up when you follow the only doing standards rules. The problem also comes to play if you are dealing with a client that wants to use third party linking or content that simply is so from validation it is in a different orbit. It might be deep links from affiliate sites or just some other including that they want.
Message in an ipod
There is now free engraving on ipods as my inbox informed me today. The quesiton of the day is therefore:
CSS lists not aligning?
Are you looking for a simple way to make sure your CSS lists don’t put space and start at the top? This is useful for things like navigation in a list and really easy to do:
4 columns with aligned links made simple
Over at The Watchmaker Project, Matthew Pennell has a nice 4 column layout with aligned links.
