Web designers and developers have long demanded consistency of standards. It’s frustrating when web pages appear differently on different browsers. Internet Explorer is the most criticised browser for needing “hacks”. Yet in the absence of consistent standards Internet Explorer provides one of the most helpful services to designers.
I’ve seen a lot of powerful recommendations for [...]
On Friday I wrote about the importance of styling your website so that it prints well. As promised then, I’m going to go into a bit more detail on how to develop an effective print stylesheet for your site.
CSS can be targeted easily at different media types, so you can have one stylesheet controlling the [...]
I was looking over my Google Analytics statistics today and took a look at the breakdown of screen resolutions used by visitors to the site. I noticed that while the majority of visitors use resolutions of either 1024×768 or 1280×1024 some significantly higher resolutions such 1920×1200 were starting to creep into the statistics (and indeed [...]
One of the biggest advantages of the Firefox web browser is the wide variety of useful add-ons. These are small pieces of software which extend the functionality of Firefox. Some of these add-ons, and particularly those related to web accessibility, I highlighted before in ‘Some Useful Firefox Add-Ons For Designers’.
More recently I’ve been using a [...]
Sometimes the smallest things can make a big difference, and that’s also the case when it comes to accessibility.
If you are targetting, or want to cater for, an audience that is browsing in a non-standard way, such as utilising a screen reader or is using keyboard only, then one small change to your web code [...]
While the Links page on the site is currently being reviewed, and so is looking pretty barren, I thought I’d take a moment to point out how it’s put together. The use of “drawers” is a simple function that can really make a difference to a page layout, particularly if you’ve got a lot of [...]
