Monthly Archives: July 2009

The importance of supporting IE6

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Mike

What appears to a growing trend is the moving away from IE6 to support more  modern browsers only. It seems to make sense – after all, the browser is about eight years old. I mean, how many of us have … Continue reading →

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Quick tip when using the Overlay feature of jQuery Tools

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Mike

When using the overlay tool that is offered by jQuery Tools – an excellent JavaScript library that I highly recommend you add to your toolkit – you need to be aware that content that gets displayed within the overlay needs … Continue reading →

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YouTube video stream in a WordPress blog

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Mike

While working on a WordPress blog implementation for a client, I came up with a bit of an interesting solution for a feature request they had. In short, they wanted to be able to show a list of videos from … Continue reading →

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Launch of Sun Life Financial “ParticipACTION” micro site

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Mike

Last week we prepared a series of three HTML templates for a small micro site that Sun Life Financial is doing for ParticipACTION. Sun Life wants you to get moving. This summer the ParticipACTION Sun Life – Inspire the nation … Continue reading →

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Suckerfish implementation of CSS dropdown menu

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Mike

Late last week, a client contacted us with a request to add a dropdown menu to their Web site. Being a fairly content-heavy site, this made a lot of sense. So often, when coming up with designs and wireframes for … Continue reading →

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