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I hereby swear to do my best to fill these pages with things that others may find interesting. I will discuss topics, share links, vent personal grievances and may even write a tutorial or two.

Dynamically load changes in your stylesheet

A useful little tool for those developing sites with lots of javascript.

If you have a site with lots of dynamic things going on refreshing the page and re-doing each step in a certain process everytime you make a change in the stylesheet can be frustrating. After having enough of this situation I did some googling and came across this handy tool. Add the bookmarklet to your toolbar then when you make a change to the stylesheet click it instead of refreshing the page to see your changes instantly without loosing any javascript generated content.

Here is the the linkif this sounds like it might come in handy http://david.dojotoolkit.org/recss.html.

Guest Blogging

I was recent asked to write a guest post for a web design blog on the subject of inspiration. After me taking a long time getting myself sorted it has gone live. I wanted to take this opertunity to thank Rohin for the opertunity to write for another blog and also for his patience!

Anyway here is a link to the post: Find Your Inspiration as a Designer and if you have a design float account a float wouldn’t go amiss (and there are more bookmarking links at the bottom if you are particularly keen). Would really appreciate it if you took a look!

5 Wonderful Watery Websites

I am about to start on the design for a site that I want to have a sort of underwater-y (yeah it’s a word… what of it!) look. Did a bit of research into other sites doing similar things and thought I would share a few with you.

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Missing buttons and assumptions

I came across this interesting post the other day and it made me think about some usability issues which had seemed like common sense but that I had never really thought of.

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IE PNG Fix Round up

I was passed a site design the other day to chop into XHTML/CSS and I knew right away I was going to have to deal with IE6 and transparent PNGs. There are many of these out there but there are a few that have, for me, stood out so I thought I would try and list a few of my favourites and layout some of their pros and cons.

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Web Design for beginners

My girlfriend asked me earlier about learning web design, she wants to learn something new and possibly something that could grow into a way of earning some extra money. As I am on hand to help with web design, this seemed like the obvious choice.
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Amazing pop-up book for graphic designers

I decided that I don’t post enough about design and inspiration. I visit a lot of blogs and one of the main reasons is to get inspiration in one form or another. In light of this I thought I would share this video on youtube.
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Great tips for fixing CSS problems

I have been a bit busy with work recently so I have not posted much recently. In the process of doing lots of work I have run into lots of problems. Today I finished up on a page on the site I am working on and tested in all the usual browsers, and lo and behold Internet Explorer 6 made it look wierd.
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Online translation services.

I don’t often have need to use online translation services as the need rarely arises and when I have used them in the past they have been pretty unreliable. This morning I found myself needing to use one as my site was featured on an Italian web site about javascript.
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