ARCHIVES 2003

February 2003

News · 18th February 2003
Hmmmm · 18th February 2003
Taming Opera's Fullscreen Mode · 18th February 2003
Another Redesign? · 18th February 2003
Bad Browsers! · 18th February 2003
Out Of The Lens · 18th February 2003
Ginger Cake · 22nd February 2003
Mark Pilgrim Battles The Web Robots · 26th February 2003

March 2003

Forum Relaunch · 5th March 2003
Anti-War Demo · 22nd March 2003
Hilarious · 29th March 2003

April 2003

Outstanding · 1st April 2003
Using XML For The First Time · 15th April 2003
The Grid · 20th April 2003
Reinventing Hypertext Links · 25th April 2003
Photography · 29th April 2003

May 2003

Stepping Backwards · 2nd May 2003
Death Of A Meta Tag · 3rd May 2003
Custom Tags Trick · 10th May 2003
CSS Demos And Bugs · 10th May 2003
CSS Greatness · 14th May 2003
Smart Illustrations · 14th May 2003
Helpful Site · 14th May 2003
Centricle · 17th May 2003
Strange Banana · 29th May 2003

June 2003

Setting Fonts In IE6 · 24th June 2003
Argus Center · 24th June 2003
Design Matters · 24th June 2003
Making A List Into A Table · 24th June 2003
The Future Of Web Design · 26th June 2003
Leaking Styles · 27th June 2003
Leaking Styles Part 2 · 28th June 2003
Pixelsurgeon · 28th June 2003

July 2003

Hydro74 · 2nd July 2003
Illustrator World · 2nd July 2003
The DOM Inspector · 4th July 2003
Netscape 2 Announced! · 5th July 2003
CSS2 Test Suite Failures · 11th July 2003
Out Of The Lens 2 · 13th July 2003

August 2003

Modulo 26 · 4th August 2003
Recent CSS Finds · 13th August 2003
Fixed Positioning For IE On Windows · 13th August 2003
Web Design Postcards · 13th August 2003
Internet Explorer 6 CSS Bugs · 13th August 2003
JPEG 2000 · 13th August 2003
Mozilla Table Clicks · 13th August 2003
Announcement · 13th August 2003
Containing Floats · 28th August 2003
A New Look · 28th August 2003
Hivelogic · 30th August 2003

September 2003

Pink Steel · 2nd September 2003
Browser Reference Chart · 4th September 2003
CSS Articles · 4th September 2003
Sizer · 14th September 2003
3 Columns From 1 · 15th September 2003
Listamatic · 16th September 2003
Styleboost · 16th September 2003
Opera Release New Browser · 25th September 2003
Fresh Layout For New Design Portal · 26th September 2003

October 2003

3D Border Demo · 3rd October 2003
Opera Tests Updated · 14th October 2003
Mozilla Tests Updated · 16th October 2003
Web Design Practices · 16th October 2003
3D Border Demo 2 · 16th October 2003
Shadow Demo · 17th October 2003
Design Meme · 17th October 2003
CSS Border Design Challenge · 18th October 2003
Comments On 3D Border Demo 2 · 19th October 2003
Interview · 28th October 2003
QuirksMode · 30th October 2003
Another Weird Bug In IE6 · 30th October 2003

November 2003

Another Reason To Love Mozilla · 5th November 2003
Run Multiple Versions Of IE At Once · 10th November 2003
RSS Feed Introduced · 12th November 2003
Generated Content Article · 15th November 2003
CSS Vault · 17th November 2003
Let It Be Like It Was Before · 20th November 2003
Bad Design In Programs · 25th November 2003

December 2003

Styling Forms · 2nd December 2003
Bad Design In Programs 2 · 5th December 2003
Bad Design In Programs 3 · 5th December 2003
Minimum Design · 14th December 2003
Shine On You Crazy Moose · 15th December 2003
CSS Tests Updated · 16th December 2003
Pop-Over Adverts · 16th December 2003
London Cycling Campaign · 18th December 2003

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What's New

I've added a Search form on the Archives page · 31st May 2010
I have rewritten large chunks of my Flat File Database Demo 5 to improve it. Firstly, you can now search using "AND" for two words that must be together on the same line. I've also taken out some of the repetitive code and put it into PHP functions. Plus I've redone the database to be more realistic. · 24th May 2010
Styling Forms Demo updated to show results from the latest Windows browsers · 5th May 2010
Flat File Database Demo 5 · 3rd May 2010
Royal Mail Big Month Of Music · 11th Mar 2010
Photoshop Elements 7 Window Oddities · 21st May 2009

Recent Finds

Tasty colours in the design of the website for The Forbidden Corner:

· 13th July 2010
iD Staffing is the weirdest site I've seen for a while! (Uses Flash, so no iPad or iPhone.)

· 15th June 2010
12 Creative and Cool Uses for the CSS Border Property - "Christopher Hester is a man with fantastic CSS skill, incalculable patience, and presumably no girlfriend..." · 9th June 2010
Discover the "Cool" of CSS: 25 Advanced CSS Techniques - features my CSS Gradients Demo at the top! · 9th June 2010
Algunas curiosidades hechas con CSS (Some curiosities done with CSS) - features 3 of my demos! · 9th June 2010
Geekiest Houses: Would Your Spouse Leave You If You Did This to Your Residence? - features my CSS House! (Screenshot) · 9th June 2010
12 Excellent CSS3 Button and Menu Techniques · 9th June 2010
The Most Common HTML and CSS Mistakes to Avoid · 9th June 2010
Pure CSS 3D Coke Can - has to be seen to be believed · 9th June 2010
Revista Göoo:

· 6th June 2010
Blimey! This is good! So many nice touches on Veerle's Blog redesign:

· 25th May 2010
HTML5 For Web Designers by Jeremy Keith is the first release from A Book Apart · 4th May 2010
The History Of A List Apart courtesy of Jeffrey Zeldman, for those who've always wondered how it started and what the name means · 4th May 2010

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