January, 2008 archive
My website’s broken!
A furore has erupted over the past couple of days within a section of the web development community over a decision by Microsoft to require web developers to add a meta tag to their pages to define what version of Internet Explorer a site has been designed for. I’m not going to go into the pros and cons of this decision as it’s been comprehensively covered elsewhere.
How thinking about your website can benefit your business
I recently had a discussion with a client that I’d already produced a template for who said they wanted to change the primary navigation items at the top of each page. As the site hadn’t gone live yet (they were producing it themselves – I’d simply done the graphic and template design for them), I didn’t see much problem with fulfilling their request. But it was a two-part request and the part that raised a warning flag for me was that they wanted the navigation to be flexible enough for them to be able to make further changes easily at some point in the future.
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Introducing a new series of articles
Up until now, all of the articles I’ve written for this site have been on topics relating to web development from the point of view of a web designer or developer. But as this site is also to promote my own web development services to prospective clients, I thought it was about time that I evened the ledger and wrote something that might benefit those who are in the market for having a website built and are shopping for web development services.
The first entry in what will hopefully become a regular series of articles on web development from a customer/client perspective is How thinking about your website can benefit your business.
Wasting the inheritance
No I’m not going to talk about Paris Hilton (although she may not have so much to waste anymore now her grandfather has decided to give $US2.3 billion to charity ;)), what I want to talk about today is something that I’ve seen cropping up quite a lot on my travels through sites and code (usually via requests for help on forums) and that is a lack of understanding about CSS inheritance.
