Displaying posts tagged: web-design

IE6 and position:relative (aka: 3 wasted hours of my life)

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At Gottabet, we've started to migrate the website to a cleaner, wider layout that I've been working on for the past few months. We started by launching a new homepage and a couple of weeks ago we trialled a new signup page (via A/B test) and then rolled that out for everyone. Yesterday we launched our ...

When will online advertisers learn?

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With the hype over Web 2.0, it's funny how many online advertisers are still using the same crass techniques of the web's earlier years. Within a minute of each other, I just got hit by three of the most annoying advert types while checking two websites. I loaded up an article on the Sky Sports website ...

It lives!

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The top-secret project I've been working on since moving down to London at the end of October had a still-quite-secret launch late last week and now we're ready to tell a few more people. Without further ado, I present Gottabet.com! Gottabet.com is a social networking site where people exchange challenges and bets on any event they ...

Firebug 1.0 beta

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The most useful developer tool for Firefox has just hit it's first version 1.0 beta and has added some great new features. Firebug gives you all kinds of javascript and CSS debugging tools that help you track down where errors are coming from. For example, you can inspect a single HTML element and see the CSS ...

<button> it!

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Vitamin does link to some good stuff. Latest in the list is an article on Digital Web Magazine by Aaron Gustafson about the poor, neglected button form element. I have to admit I am one who'd seen the dodgy uses years ago and ended up ignoring it well before I got into standards and CSS, so ...