Web Design

We came across a problem the other day using margin-top with Firefox and Safari. It occurs when you have a containing div with a background followed immediately by another div with margin-top. For example:
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Over the last six months, we’ve been working on a new version of the Blot Content Management System (CMS). The enhancements are a mix of things we’ve planned and items you have requested. (more…)

PNG is a good image format for web design in certain circumstances - a bit like gifs - good for images with blocks of same colour, no lossieness etc. They can also have a transparency attribute which can make them very useful. One thing to watch out for if you are still supporting IE6 is they way that browser handles PNG files.
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For years the bane of web designers lives has been the number of different browsers out there - Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc…. Quite often it has meant coding different code for each browser. The cries of anguish when a design that works perfectly on one browser crashes on another have been heard around the world for too many years.
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We’ve added a little winter touch to our website - snowflakes falling through the colour splash on our home page. Here’s how to do it for yourself.
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