Archive for October 2009
Show and hide text in a form field using onclick and onblur
A great way to reduce the need for a field heading/title is to include the informative text within the text field. This is most commonly used in search fields, where there’s often no further available room to include a heading alongside or above. Read more
No commentsShould you remove the border on clicked links
Firstly, dotted borders on clicked links are there for a reason – For accessibility and usability. They may not look pretty on your newly designed website but some folk rely on them to get around the web. Therefore only remove if strictly necessary. Read more
No commentsTesting websites in IE6, IE7 and IE8 on a Mac
When designing and developing websites it’s important to test in all of the most popular browsers. Those are currently Firefox, IE6, IE7, IE8, Google Chrome and Safari. For some reason PC users don’t seem to update their version of Internet Explorer so as each new version arrives on the scene we then have to develop for those very old browsers. Anyway, here’s how to do it… Read more
No commentsIE6 Div Height Problem
We all know IE6 is the web developers nightmare and today that continued when I was unable to make a 5px high div appear that height in IE6. Wow, the amount of time I spend on IE6 when developing sites is quite astonishing and I can’t wait for the day when we see the death of IE6. Anyhow back to the problem: IE6 kept wanting to show the 5px high div as 20px! After a bit of playing and hunting around the web here’s how I overcame the problem. Read more
No comments10 Tips to Clean, Optimize and Speed up your Wordpress Site
If you find your Wordpress Site is struggling speed-wise or you’ve been given your marching orders from your web hosts (due to high CPU usage) then read on and hopefully these few tips will help sort out and speed up your Wordpress Blog. Read more
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