Archive for February, 2009

  • Adding a simple pagination to your site

    Saturday, February 21st, 2009 by Erik

    or: the dangerousness of simple mathematics I guess many people had this problem before and I think everybody managed to solve this quite similar. Anyways, just in case this is useful for anybody: here’s how I added a pagination to a site recently. Given you have an array of products for example. Or maybe search [...]

  • Web browser capabilities revisited

    Monday, February 16th, 2009 by stevie

    As a web developer you always have to keep in mind that what looks great on your box not always looks that good on your client’s or on some random visitor’s screen. This is mostly because of the different browser engines and versions. With this in mind you might tend to avoid any newer techniques, [...]

  • Choosing the right DOCTYPE

    Saturday, February 14th, 2009 by Daff

    I think every web developer or designer had at least one or more sleepless nights because a web page looked entirely different in all the different browsers on the market. It seems impossible to ever get rid of all the tiny and annoying differences but there are two main considerations that may minimize the effect:

  • Checkout a project from svn – the right way

    Saturday, February 14th, 2009 by stevie

    Do you use eclipse? Do you use svn? Did you ever checked out a new project into your workspace? If you could answer all these questions with a “yes” you might have noticed afterwards that you can’t do anything with this project because eclipse created it as “general project”, meaning no java, php or anything [...]

  • Firefox 3.1 – A Designers’ Release

    Saturday, February 14th, 2009 by Erik

    Many web designers will be pleased to see the list of changes that will be introduced with the upcoming Firefox release 3.1. Many exciting features have been integrated and are awaiting their use in new websites. Some of these are: the @font-face rule, which can be used to declare font files (that will be downloaded [...]