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• A Nice Little CSS Positioning Technique

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  • 08/09/08
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  Our Phil (finish your site mate!) asked me to pop this up here, it’s a neat little CSS positioning technique I use all the time. It’s not particularly difficult, nor is it massively new and revolutionary, but I see a lot of people achieving similar results in spectacularly longwinded ways.

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• Seacliffe Borough Council

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  • 03/09/08
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  This article originally appeared in issue 178 of .net magazine, but I’m republishing it here because I’d like to use the Seacliffe site for a series of articles about CMSes and creativity. Or something like that. Any ideas?

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• Flog the alive horse instead

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  • 12/06/08
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  We get told to “innovate” a lot in the web industry. New ideas, practices and technologies are thrown at us on a daily basis, each post in your feed reader as innovative as the next. In terms of design we’re looking everywhere but at a screen for inspiration, using all sorts of CSS trickery to enhance our pages for a lucky half dozen, and using the latest trendy real-world texture to make our sites stand out. But if everyone’s doing the next innovative thing, how original can we really be?

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• Negative hovers piss me off

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  • 05/06/08
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  You heard. Web links that behave negatively when you hover over them piss me off. I don’t know why, and I know it’s not a massively significant issue, but it seems like a lot of people (including myself in the past) regularly fail to grasp the point of a hover/focus state.

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• “The Red Album”: Initial Thoughts

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  • 04/06/08
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  I’ve only been a Weezer fan for a few years, and to be honest if you told me a few years ago that I’d be into them now I’d have probably laughed at you. After all, Hash Pipe was the song everyone recognised them by at the time. But I’ve since developed a special place in my ears for their simple, catchy, poppy and sometimes beautiful songs.

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