Web Design

Soon we will see that rental properties must have an Energy Performance Certificate, which rates how effective the property’s energy usage is on a scale of A to G, A being the most effective. No doubt you’ve seen similar certificates on refrigerators and freezers.
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Flash pop-ups have recently become popular with a few of our customers. They have a few benefits to traditional html pop-ups in that they are not perceived by the browsers as pop-ups at all and therefore don’t get blocked. As far as the browser is concerned it is just another Flash movie, which of course it is – it just takes up most of the screen. (more…)

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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