Wildlife in the Wind

Over the weekend, we were glued to the TV set keeping an eye on the path of Hurricane Rita. Fortunately, we didn’t experience much more in Dallas than some moderately high wind and ominous grey storm clouds. In the late afternoon on Saturday I went out on the patio with my camcorder to catch some [...]

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Continuing Journey (Practice Makes Perfect)

Well, I’ve gotta say that creating sites with purely CSS-based layouts (table-less) is… well… really hard! It’s not so much a problem marking up the content with valid, semantic XHTML code and styling that page with CSS. It’s just that things start to go haywire when I start to add the structure of the page [...]

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From Dallas to Oz and Back

I had an interesting experience this afternoon. While I was shopping for produce at my local Whole Foods (health food store), my brother, who lives in Australia, called my mobile phone. He had some CSS coding questions.

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Web Standards Resources

There have been many online resources that I’ve found extremely valuable over the past couple of years of learning about Web standards development. I thought I’d take some time and share them—with you and with myself for later reference.

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No More Overlapping Header Elements

I was having some difficulties with the header throughout the site. If you increased the text size quite a bit (to simulate what a visually impaired user might experience), the main navigation links along the top-right of the window would cover up the logo on the left.

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