Monthly Archives: March 2009

A closer look at CSS selector support in IE7, Part 1

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Mike

These are exciting times – and that term is used very loosely – as we near the end of IE6 and say hello to IE7  being the browser of choice for most users. With IE6 goes the near non-support of CSS … Continue reading →

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Screencast Review: Design Fast Websites

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Mike

I think it’s safe to say that we are smack-dab in the middle of a bloated Internet. Web sites are increasing in size and with that comes the extra waiting time for the page to load it’s content, graphics, CSS, … Continue reading →

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Screencast Review: Professional Frontend Engineering

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Mike

This morning I checked out a screencast by Nate Koechley called Professional Frontend Engineering, provided by YUI Theater. It’s quite lengthy (1:30), but well worth your time. Although nothing ground breaking or exciting is covered, I found it to be … Continue reading →

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A small fix for Stu Nicholl’s drop down menu solution for IE6

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Mike

I’m currently working on an template slice of a micro-site for one of our major clients and came across an annoying bug when attempting to implement Stu Nicholl’s CSS-only drop down menu solution for IE6. For some reason, any menu … Continue reading →

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Dealing with the annoyances of HTML emails

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Mike

For all you Web developers out there, I know there is at least one thing we all have in common – our absolute hatred of HTML emails. They are a constant struggle and the backwards methods we are forced to … Continue reading →

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