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Blog entries posted during April 2007

• Just a few bits

  Primarily, the new Team Sangreal website has been successful launched over the last over the last hour. Being a part of this close-knit gaming community, it's making me feel nice and warm inside to receive nice compliments from the other members. As with most medium to large projects, there are few things to smooth over (I think I've fixed most of the layout/IE problems), but it's still looking good. Check it out. There's also a brief write up of this project in the work section, of course.

  Read the rest of this entry, Just a few bits // Posted on 20/04/07 // 1 comment

• Who Doesn’t Love Microsoft?

  Recently I came across a PC with IE7 installed. Stupidly, I had assumed that the new version of the most popular browser in the world would handle CSS based websites effectively and efficiently. I was wrong.

  Read the rest of this entry, Who Doesn’t Love Microsoft? // Posted on 17/04/07 // 1 comment

• A little about constraints

  As someone with a super keen interest in websites, I often browse whilst thinking in the back of my mind, "how and why was this particular site designed?". One thing that has been niggling me over the last few weeks is the visual wrapper. You know the one. It's basically a column, usually about 780 pixels wide, often horizontally centred, that houses the content. Often it has a white background and maybe a slight shadow on either side. My question is this: why as web designers do we so often constrain ourselves with a fixed pixel visual space in which to work?

  Read the rest of this entry, A little about constraints // Posted on 10/04/07 // 4 comments

• My First Realign

  It's been a while in the making, mostly due to lack of free time to work on it, but finally my site is live again. It's a relief to be honest, I'm sure many of you who make websites get that slow down (sometimes disguised as can't-be-arsed) feeling coming towards the end of a project, something that played a large part in the development of this site.

  Read the rest of this entry, My First Realign // Posted on 02/04/07 // 4 comments