Archive for October, 2008

Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Real men don’t drink and drive

As we rapidly approach the season of merriment, so too we will start seeing the annual public service advertisement campaigns demonstrating in increasingly graphic ways all the bad stuff that can happen when we drink and drive.

When flicking through my feeds earlier today I happened across this clever little poster campaign by Russian Bear Vodka.

Russian Bear Vodka

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Monday, 27 October 2008

How to achieve cross-browser support for inline-block

The CSS display property can be the bane of the web designer’s life as support varies from browser to browser, making it all a bit more complicated than it should be. In this article I will show a quick and simple way to get the display:inline-block declaration rendering consistently across all major browsers.

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Monday, 20 October 2008

Wanted: A loving home for an orphan website

miLienzo.com

Ah, those were the days - back in early 2007 and relatively new to the world of blogging, I used to bash out articles on my first blog miLienzo.com almost on a daily basis. Some articles, admittedly, better than others.

Now time has moved on and six months after launching my new site - the one you’re reading now - I have posted on miLienzo.com only three times. And I’m ashamed to admit this, but there are almost 200 unpublished comments. Yes, 200!

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Monday, 13 October 2008

Can web designers be optimistic as the crunch begins to bite?

Falling stock market

I suppose I should start this article with the caveat that I have only been self employed on a full time basis for about four months. I am not a financial expert or advisor - heck, I don’t even know what they really do in the city. I certainly don’t have a glass ball or any other means of seeing into the future. But I have an opinion.

If the media is to be believed (and I’m not doubting them) we are in the midst of a global economic crisis possibly more serious than that of the great economic depression of the 1930s.

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