Life @ High Road Communications

A closer look at the max-width property

Mike — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:15:14 +0000

I came across an interesting issue today with the max-width property. It’s a property that I’ve only used in a few occasions in the past – mainly due to the constraints of legacy browsers that do not support it. That … Continue reading →

CSS3 Lessons: Multiple Background Images

Mike — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:35:49 +0000

The CSS3 background property has been completed enhanced from it's CSS 2.1 predecessor, with some really interesting new features that I plan on investigating in future articles. For the purposes of this article, I'll be looking at the multiple image ability of the background-image property. Continue reading →

Is your video content getting indexed?

Mike — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:28:58 +0000

Read an interesting article the other day called Video SEO: A technical guide (by Joost de Valk) which goes into a in-depth explanation of video SEO. It is something that I had not really thought about previously – had really … Continue reading →

A manageable method for creating CSS image sprites

Mike — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:08:42 +0000

The technique for creating and using CSS image sprites has been around for quite some time now. However, they don’t seem to be used near enough, despite the performance bonuses they can deliver. Perhaps it is due to the fact … Continue reading →

Demo: Dynamic Cross-browser Horizontally Fluid Menu

Mike — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:57:03 +0000

The following is a solution that I came up with create a fluid horizontal navigation structure that met the following requirements: The navigation needed to be completely dynamic and not dependent on an update to a CSS file if items … Continue reading →

Demo: Using CSS3 to create a rounded corner box

Mike — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:05:31 +0000

As the CSS3 specification continues to take the web by storm, more and more browsers are With CSS3, much of the slicing work that used to be the norm back in the ‘old’ CSS2/2.1 days is become much less of … Continue reading →

Site Launch: Council of Turkish Canadians

Mike — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:19:12 +0000

Today marked the launch of a redesign of the Web site for the Council of Turkish Canadians. The site was built using WordPress which gives the content manager the flexibility to be able to easily manage the Web site’s content … Continue reading →

Site Launch: World Hepatitis Alliance

Mike — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:22:15 +0000

This past week we launched a Web site redesign for the World Hepatitis Alliance. The World Hepatitis Alliance is a non-governmental organisation that represents approximately 280 hepatitis B and C patient groups from around the world. As a coalition of … Continue reading →

Inline-Block whitespace workaround

Mike — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:13:01 +0000

In response to an article written yesterday (April 26th, 2010) about the inline-block display property on Impressive Webs, there was some debate on unwanted whitespace that appears to the right of elements that are styled with this property. If you … Continue reading →

Quick tip: Disabling inline JavaScript within Sitefinity “edit” mode

Mike — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:12:04 +0000

This is a handy little workaround I found for a small issue I was having within the CMS of Sitefinity. Pages that have some form of custom JavaScript functionality can sometimes play havoc with Sitefinity when in “edit” mode. For … Continue reading →