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A complete guide to CSS pseudo-elements
Mon 19th Jul 2010

Pseudo-elements are fantastically useful as they allow greater control of elements and selectors without extra HTML mark-up.

As with much advanced CSS, pseudo-element take up has been slow amongst web designers because of poor support in Internet Explorer.

However, as IE...

Best of the Web for May and June 2010
Sat 3rd Jul 2010

Hay ho pop pickers this is the best web design and development blog posts from the last couple of months.

As usual, there is a mixture of CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, PHP and SEO.

I hope you find some inspiration here as there are some fantastic articles which any web creati...

A complete guide to CSS pseudo-classes
Fri 11th Jun 2010

CSS 2.1 pseudo-classes

a:link {color:#3344dd}
a:visited {color:#804180}
a:hover {color:#b50010}
a:active {color:#b50010}

The above CSS pseudo-classes should already be familiar to yo...

A complete guide to CSS attribute selectors
Wed 2nd Jun 2010

Attribute selectors are a part of both CSS 2.1 and CSS 3.0 and this tutorial will show you how to use these powerful design aids.

If they are that helpful then why isn't their use more widespread, you may ask? Two words: Internet Explorer. Although they have almost 100% support in IE7 they ...

Old school acid house rarities mix
Wed 12th May 2010

ACCCCIIIDDDDDD!

Where you there?! Actually, I wasn't having been born in '75. Still, it's nice to hear some of this Mars music again - it still sounds like it's from another planet rather than this one.

This was always about taking drugs to make music to take drugs to.&l...

Templates for the financial industry launched
Tue 11th May 2010

I've just finished my next set of £199 templates with this batch for accountants and all those working in the financial industry.

In terms of design, they are a lot more subtle than the templates for the car repairs sector, but that was intentional. The feel of these web sites had to be qu...

Superb happy hardcore mix
Thu 6th May 2010

Do you wanna dance? Do you wanna dance right now to the bouncing bass of '94 hardcore? Well do you yer?! Of course you do.

I first heard a Chrissy Murderbot jungle mix a few years ago and it saw some serious action on my stereo, now somebody has pointed my towards his blog,

Interesting blog posts from April 2010
Sun 2nd May 2010

Here's my brief run through blog posts that caught my attention in April (this entry also covers March as I didn't have time to write a round-up last month).

They cover the weird and wacky world of SEO and the latest news from the CSS3, PHP and JavaScript fronts.

I hope ...

Templates for the car repair industry launched
Sun 2nd May 2010

Over the last few weeks I've been having a rethink of my business model. Economically, times are tough with this being the worse recession in living memory. Consequently, marketing budgets have been slashed while most micro-businesses either do not have the money or are not willing to pay for custom web design...

CSS3 pseudo-class selector emulation for IE and Dojo
Mon 12th Apr 2010

In January developer Keith Clark released his script that allows gave cross-browser support to use 18 different types of CSS pseudo-classes that previously had limited or no support in Internet Explorer.

The scrip...

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