Archive for the ‘All things web design’ Category
Energy Cell website features in HTML5 Gallery
20 Jan 2010We’ve recently took the plunge into the unchartered world (sort of) of HTML5. We’ve used our own site as the ‘test subject’ and taken the progression from Strict XHTML to HTML5.
Giving our clients the best solutions possible for their online presence is paramount, so keeping in touch with the latest internet technologies gives The Energy [...]
Web design has come along way
14 Aug 2009It dosen’t sound that long ago but when you see how some of the most popular websites looked in the late 90’s you’ll be amazed.
Check them out here
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Microsoft to support IE6 until 2014!!
14 Aug 2009Microsoft has announced that it intends on supporting it’s ageing IE6 browser till 2014, 4 years later than it’s original deadline!
I’m absolutely over the moon about this and I intend to organise a celebration, and invite all my web professional peers, where we can dance through the streets and rejoice! .
Obviously…I won’t be doing [...]
My latest must have FireFox plugin
21 Jul 2009As we’ve recently re-launched our site, I’ve been polishing our SEO techniques and I’ve come across a great FF plugin which has helped me out no end.
It’s called ‘Search Status’ and can be found at: http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
Once plugged in it reveals the Google Page Rank and Alexa rankings for the page currently visiting. And at the [...]
LESS does actually mean less
1 Jul 2009I think CSS is the best thing since sliced bread, but sometimes I do find it a bit repetitive, and without a boilerplate or snippet for absolutely everything, it can take a while to achieve the results you want.
But with a great new Ruby add on called LESS you can now create leaner, meaner CSS [...]
Top of Google
25 Jun 2009The million dollar question is: How do I get to the top of Google?
If I had a penny for every time a client had asked me this I would be writing this blog laid in a hammock on Necker Island…but I’m not.
Getting your site full of good content, looking great and working is only half [...]
Microsoft…still in the Web Standards dark ages
24 Jun 2009Microsoft have just confirmed they plan on using the crippled Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010.
This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position and no background images. Not to mention the long list of bugs [...]
A great new app from the guys at DebugBar is my latest ‘best thing since sliced bread’.
I’m sure I’m not alone when I find myself pacing to and fro from my machine to a testing machine the other side of the studio to see if my last stylesheet update has fixed the problem I’ve had [...]