Dave Woods - Freelance Web Designer UK

Rounded Corners in Internet Explorer Using JQuery

Dave — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:15:58 +0000

Recently I wrote an article on CSS3: Rounded CSS Corners, which is a great solution for creating rounded corners. However, Internet Explorer doesn’t yet support it, but there is a solution which this article explains.

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CSS3: Rounded CSS Corners

Dave — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:58:20 +0000

There’s many ways to create rounded corners using CSS but with the introduction of CSS3, our lives as web designers are about to become a lot easier.

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HTML5 Tutorial - Getting Started

Dave — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:21:49 +0000

HTML5 is coming quicker than a lot of web designers are probably aware. You’ve probably seen the stories that it won’t actually be usable until 2022 but in reality, you can actually start using it today. Not all web browsers support CSS2.1, not all visitors are using software capable of using JavaScript but that doesn’t stop us from using it and it shouldn’t stop you using HTML5 either, and here’s why…

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Useful links of the week

Dave — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:09:27 +0000

I’ve finally had chance to catch up with my RSS feedreader recently and thought I’d share some of the more interesting ones with you. Below are a list of Web Design, Usability, Accessibility and Search Engine related articles from the past week which I’m sure many of you will find useful or interesting.

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Has Google Fixed Internet Explorer?

Dave — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:48:56 +0000

Google have recently launched Google Chrome Frame which is their attempt to fix Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 and bring them up to date with the more advanced browsers like the Webkit Engine but at what cost?

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Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design

Dave — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:55:34 +0000

There’s a really useful article at the moment on Smashing Magazine which explains a number of usability issues when dealing with e-commerce design.

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Firefox 4 Screenshots

Dave — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:19:11 +0000

Firefox 3.5 has been out less than a month and the announcement of Firefox 3.7 was only last week. However, Mozilla are already looking ahead to version 4 of Firefox.

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CSS negative margins

Dave — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:49:52 +0000

Negative margins can be really useful when used correctly but can are often avoided because they’re seen as a hack or work around to other CSS problems. However Smashing Magazine have put together a useful article which explains how they can be used to good effect.

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HTML 5 Cheatsheet

Dave — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:53:35 +0000

Courtesy of Chris Hanscom, Smashing Magazine have released an HTML5 cheatsheet, which if you’ve not been following the developments of HTML is definitely worth taking a look at.

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Latest Work: United Online

Dave — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:06:27 +0000

I don’t very often write about my own work on my blog, so following the re-design and launch of United Online this evening, I thought I’d take the opportunity to review my latest little project for a change.

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