Archived posts, July 2003

Summer cleaning

It’s been two weeks since my last entry, so I have plenty of stuff to write about now. John Gruber at Daring Fireball writes a really long…

Posted on July 13, 2003 in Usability, CSS, Browsers, (X)HTML, Web General

Building Accessible Websites

Accessibility expert Joe Clark has now made his entire book Building Accessible Websites available online. For your own good, read this bo…

Posted on July 17, 2003 in Accessibility

Netscape murdered

I have been known to say that “Netscape 4 must die”. I still believe the web would be a better place if all copies of Netscape 4 disappear…

Posted on July 17, 2003 in Browsers

Rounded corners

I spent some time exploring different ways of creating a box with rounded corners. After checking out how other people have attacked the p…

Posted on July 22, 2003 in CSS

Dropshadows

Hmm… looks like maybe I should start a “How to do it with CSS”-section on this site. The other day I had a closer look at rounded corners,…

Posted on July 28, 2003 in CSS

More dropshadows

I was browsing the entries at the CSS Zen Garden and was inspired by an entry called Friendly Beaches, which has a dropshadow with soft ed…

Posted on July 28, 2003 in CSS

Fun with forms

Most people working with the web need to create HTML forms from time to time. Some of us have to do it quite often. Few know everything th…

Posted on July 30, 2003 in Usability, Accessibility, (X)HTML

Centering with CSS

Back in the old days, if you wanted to center your whole (fixed size) page both horizontally and vertically in the browser window…

Posted on July 30, 2003 in CSS

CMS, standards and semantics

A few years ago, web designers and developers nearly always were the ones who filled their client’s sites with content. Sure, the content …

Posted on July 31, 2003 in Web Standards, (X)HTML, Content Management