Posted May 7, 2009
Have you ever been working on a website and noticed that in certain browsers a background image isn’t blending properly with one of your background colours or another image? This phenomenon occurs in Internet Explorer and it’s caused by metadata in the PNG file itself. There’s a great program that solves this problem without any hacks. (more…)
Posted January 13, 2008
Although always available, I want to publicise one of the features offered by logon2 that can make your website a living, rich, thriving community - rather than just another website. I’m talking about adding a blog to your website or even turning your website into a blog. If implemented properly, a blog is a communication platform between you and your audience. It improves your relationship with customers, returns feedback from customers, brings you new customers and it gives you total control of your website… (more…)
Posted December 28, 2007
We’ve all seen dropdown / popup menu lists on websites before, and generally they’re extremely useful because they save space, but offer extra functionality. Sometimes, though they’re tricky to implement. I remember doing a image-only popout menu for the Lonsdale Views, who offer accommodation in Point Lonsdale and it was more difficult than expected - First, there was Internet Explorer’s lack of support for “:hover” and then there was Internet Explorer’s z-index issue. Now that I’ve got a blog, I thought I’d publish a how-to guide for valid, accessible semantic HTML and CSS dropdown menus… (more…)
