Thoughts on Support Email

Almost everyone receives email support from various web sites and companies. The problem with all of these different companies is that the name associated with the email is almost always Support. This includes various forums, message boards and blogs. When recieving emails from all of these different entitites it is usually difficult to determine which company/web site sent the email until opening it.

For the end user, that’s me, this is confusing and a potential waste of time. Different forums and support emails have different priorities for ... Read More

Review: Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong

I heard some buzz about Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong, by Rachel Andrew & Kevin Yank and decided to order the book through Sitepoint. I ordered the hard copy as I don’t like reading on screen. Upon recieving the book my initial reaction was; this book is small. The page size is small and there are only 111 pages many of those with screenshots.

it is now up to designers to move the web forward. The opening chapter breifly discusses the history of browsers, design for layout, the implementation of CSS and issues designers have had with ... Read More

IE Tester

IE Tester is a great tool for the web developer.

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 2, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
New in v0.2.3 : IE8 beta 2 and Print feature !

This is an alpha release, so feel free to post comments/bugs on the IETester forum or contact me directly.
Minimum requirement : Windows Vista or Windows XP with IE7 (Windows XP with IE6 has some minor problems and IE7/IE8 instances do not work under this ... Read More

Why ExpressionEngine Should Be Your Next CMS

Why ExpressionEngine Should Be Your Next CMS is an informative post by Ryan Irelan about why Expression Engine is the right CMS - well worth reading.

Will also add Ryan’s blog to the sidebar.