Tuesday, September 22, 2009
This debate has gone on out there amongst web developers and user interface designers for some time. There are various issues that crop up when discussing this, but, generally, we should leave the user to control how links open but allowing then to use their browser as they prefer.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Where pages are very long, like a list of events or news items, we might want a way to quickly move back the top of the page.
You will have seen ‘back to the Top’ or some such phrase used on web sites. I have always hated seeing that phrse, because ‘top’ doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Words lke this just distract from the real content.
There are often times, though that pages become very long when lots of items (like in a blog) are listed, and it really does help if there is a quick way to get back to the navigation and menus etc.
Here is what I am doing on a few sites.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Been away from posting up here for a bit. Two reasons:
We had a great holiday in Mallorca and I had a lot of catching up to do. Also I have been busy getting started on the rebuild of the school (within our university) home page. Loads more to do on the layouts across the site.
I thought I would share some of the CSS / XHTML issues that have come up. This has been a case of taking other folks work and building on it and making a few changes that seem important to me.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Late to the party as usual but ...
I am using Twitter to log my every day activities. When the mood strikes me though!
You can see the results on my own site here using a Plug-in for ExpressionEngine.
Friday, March 09, 2007
A couple of times recently this has presented a problem and an interesting challenge.
Poets create their work with a view to wanting a particular layout of the words. Some may prefer the lines centred and others left aligned. Some poets may want their poems displayed with the wrapped line (where it is a long line) centred or right aligned.
So what would be the best way to display poems? What have others done to resolve this complex issue?
This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
Also see my web site about my boat AViVA. This was built with iWeb (not exactly to web standards but interesting tool for web building).
September 02, 10 - 02:04 pm
Here is my review of Elizabeth Castro's 'EPub Straight to the Point' - http://goo.gl/hicg
August 29, 10 - 01:35 am
Back from holidays in Brittany. When raining read Liz Castro's book on ePub. Great stuff. Will write review.
August 22, 10 - 07:53 pm
Editing ePub iBooks directly on the iPad with PhoneDisk. http://bit.ly/92jti4 iPad cache makes difficult workflow. I keep trying.
August 22, 10 - 08:59 am
Investigating 'Sigil' wysiwyg ePub editor http://bit.ly/aX30OU
August 21, 10 - 12:16 pm
Phone Disk - iPad, iTouch, iPhone Disk Mode for Mac and PC http://t.co/RpnkhrO via @AddThis
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