The Beeb’s redesign has attracted some attention here a bit already. Inspite of the jibes for the glitches at launch, I think we all actually like it. I personally really like the extra whitespace that the body text has been given. I think it makes it more readble.
However, I think they’ve made a mistake with [...]
Category Archives: Web development
Flashblock’d
April 4, 2008 – 9:01 am
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 released
April 2, 2008 – 12:08 pm
Oh dear. It seems to me that as quickly as Microsoft release one version of their internet browser without properly making sure that all HTML and CSS will display consistently, they go ahead and release another version (albeit in beta).
Interestingly though, this new release of IE seems to have a couple of snippets of good [...]
CSS Float error detection
March 31, 2008 – 11:55 am
I’ve just read on Ajaxian about a jQuery snippet of code that checks a page you are working on has any CSS float errors. It highlights the elements that should have been cleared by putting an orange dotted browser around them.
I’m sure this will come in handy as its one of the major issues when [...]
New design for the BBC
March 31, 2008 – 8:43 am
Update: They have now fixed the CSS typo.
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The BBC have launched a new design for the News and Sport home pages.
They have finally centred the design which means I can’t use the BBC as an example of a left aligned design any more when clients say that all websites are centred. Which is a shame [...]