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So, you have built a beautiful CSS layout. It looks great. You feel powerful, knowledgeable and wise. Then you start adding real content to the layout - images, lists, links etc.
Suddenly you layout does not look so great in Internet Explorer. For some reason columns are wider. In some cases the column width increases so […]

It’s been a while since the last “ten questions for…” interview. This has been due to many factors including slackness on my part. However, there are a few in the pipeline… Starting with the first for the year…
Sarah Blow is a software engineer and .Net developer. She has been working in the industry since […]

Text Clouds: A New Form of Tag Cloud?
Choosing an Accessible CMS
Twittervision and Twitter
Research Is a Method, Not a Methodology
Content Analysis Heuristics
Best Practices for Stylizing and Customizing Links in CSS
Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services
Small business Websites - How do you get more traffic to your site
Redesigning the ExpressionEngine Site
What is OpenID Good For?
JavaScript […]

Roger Hudson and I are very excited to announce the CSS & Accessibility workshop series coming in May 2007.
So, what’s it all about?
Web designers and developers face a range of challenges in today’s market. The days of producing websites for a single browser are gone. Website accessibility has become a key concern for developers and […]

Web Standards: it’s about quality, not compliance
CSS for Deprecated HTML Attributes: Part 1
CSS for Deprecated HTML Attributes: Part 2
CSS for Deprecated HTML Attributes: Part 3
How to Create an Animated, Sliding, Collapsible DIV with Javascript and CSS
Put Your Best Foot Forward: 19 Gorgeous Website Footers
“Valid CSS” and similar claims are unprofessional
Presentation Layer Best Practices
25 Code Snippets […]

We have a special event this month with Ted Patrick from Adobe, an internationally acclaimed speaker, who will be talking about Flex. We also have local legend Earle Castledine talking about Yahoo pipes - what are they, why use them and more!

When: Tuesday 20th March

Time: 6.30pm for a 7pm start

Where:
Australian Museum
6 College Street Sydney
Enter […]

Introduction to Yahoo Pipes
What’s *Your* Story?
Browser testing CSS and JavaScript
Icon Design: Sizing
Better Font Management
Usability Testing. Oh, The Things You Can Learn
Creating a Blog Entry Date Calendar Icon Look with CSS, Mostly
Semantics and Structure
Create Inspired Site Designs Using Grids
Five Principles to Design By
Enterprise Web 2.0 Efforts: How To Get To Critical Mass
Variables in your CSS […]

The event was lots of fun. We had over 120 attendees and a wide range of topics/discussions/arguments. You can check all the action on the flickr stream.
I’ve been talking about BarCamp for a while and it exceeded expectations.
Michael Kordahi
A huge thank you to everyone who came along and participated. Also, thanks to all our sponsors:

Atlassian
Microsoft […]