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Articles

• Refining Opera In Fullscreen Mode · 6 October 2004
• Writing Clean Code · 1 August 2004
• How To Set Up A New Version Of Opera 7 · 12 May 2004
• Does Anyone Really Care About Graphics? · 29 April 2004
• CSS Validation Serious Humor by The Literary Moose · 18 February 2004
• Digital Impermanence · 30 January 2004
• Minimum Design · 14 December 2003
• 3 Columns From 1 + Link Icons · 15th September 2003
• CSS2 Test Suite Failures · 11 July 2003
• The DOM Inspector · 4 July 2003
• Using XML For The First Time · 15 April 2003
• Reinventing Hypertext Links · April 2003
• Opera 7 Review · 6 February 2003
• Inspiration · ?

Interviews

I have interviewed the following people for this website:

• Molly E. Holzschlag · 23 July 2006
• Literary Moose · 20 March 2004
• John Pirrie · 13 July 2003
• Inkworm · 18 April 2002
• Damien Funk · 30 November 2001

I have also been interviewed myself:

Q&A: Chris Hester, CSS Master

The Writing Room

Here you'll find two books I'm compiling of poems and stories I have written.

The Writing Room

Last updated: 6th December 2008

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All code examples are not guaranteed 100% free from bugs and/or mistakes. Use them at your own risk. I do not take any blame should a problem occur relating to use of code on this site given as an example for your own use. Such code has been tested and found to work for me, but I cannot vouch for other computer systems (existing now, or in the future) which it may be used on, or changes you introduce yourself based on my code.

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What's New

• Updated my Vertical Text Engine Demo to include a header, credit, date and link to a screenshot · 23rd Feb 2010
• I've redone my Links Concept Demo · 4th Dec 2008
• Download my remix of Nine Inch Nails - Me, I'm Not 128Kbps MP3 (4.83Mb)/196Kbsp MP3 (7.25Mb). (Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Share Alike License.) · 24th Nov 2008
• Links Idea - something I'm working on using PHP and the Design database of links from this site · 7th Sep 2008
• IE List Hover Bug · 5th Sep 2008

Recent Finds

• An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad can't use Flash - "A finger is not a mouse" · 7th Mar 2010
• Untitled - essential reading. Someone who understands the huge importance of the iPad in the future of computing · 7th Mar 2010
• On the iPad - Alex Payne is "disturbed" by it · 7th Mar 2010
• Alexander Limi - great minimalist design · 7th Mar 2010
• IE8 now on over 25% of the market! The No.2 browser? IE6! Agh! (Via PC Answers Issue 209) · 26th Feb 2010
• Visited links don't change colour in Firefox? - a solution to a problem I couldn't figure out for years · 26th Feb 2010
• Design Museum London - contains an "archive of modern and contemporary design" · 23rd Feb 2010
• 55 Examples of Huge Typography in Web Design · 23rd Feb 2010
• Death To The Div · 19th Feb 2010

View previous finds

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