CSS - Art or Science?
I have been following a really interesting discussion on frameworks at jeffcroft.com and a separate point has been raised about the nature of writing html and CSS. The opposing views are on the one hand that writing html and css is an art form and on the other that it is simply a means to [...]
What are the essential features of a content management system?
Recently I’ve have been looking into a few different content management systems. I have made some very clear decisions about which are good, and which are not, based on using them, but I haven’t, until now, considered generically which features I value or don’t value.
I’ve looked at the websites of most of the well-known content [...]
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…
Spam is the scourge of the blogging word. Propogated by the dregs of our society, spam is the one thing that most bloggers agree on. So how do we stop it?
Vivien at Inspiration Bit has written about her most recent attempts to stop spam so I thought I would explain the methods I have used [...]
Anyone know of any good API documentation tools?
I’ve been throwing together lots of things recently that have inbuilt APIs and the one thing that I have found benig a problem, as it always is, is documentation.
I write technical guidance for a good part of everyday, so writing it isn’t a problem, but organising it is. That’s why I am hoping to find [...]
ModX: Content management for the impatient?
Following my previous post about my absolute dissatisfaction with the content management systems I had tried I received a comment from Ian suggesting that I try ModX. Rather than try it out, get used to it, and then report back I thought it would be a nice idea (I may be wrong) to blog [...]
CSS Pre-Processor for grid layouts and typography
A few posts ago I mentioned that I wasn’t entirely keen on the Blueprint CSS framework because of the way it was used. As with then I am not going enter into a discussion about the relative merits of Blueprint but I am going to present the initial concept (what will be an pre-alpha release [...]