boogdesign posts

Found this interesting technique for adding preview images to your links, I had a play with it and found it to be fairly effective. Interestingly it does capture flash movies, which quite surprised me, unfortunately it doesn't capture PNGs which makes a… more »

I've been doing some Ruby on Rails development in the last couple of weeks. I worked out my page design before hand, tested it in different browsers, and then encoded it into rhtml for the default application view so it would apply to all pages, and ver… more »

Having recently installed a few new extensions in Firefox I thought I might share my favourite ones: LiveHTTPHeaders Always nice to know exactly what content your server is pumping out, but this extension is really useful if you are trying to debug A… more »

I found Strange Banana some time ago, but I've recently discovered CSS Creator which not only creates CSS to your specifications but also has neat features like hiding side columns for 'media print'. more »

An interesting article for techie types, and another article you can show to your boss to explain why you ought to be doing all the stuff in the first article :) more »

My first sort-of-commercial (for a friend's business) website design is nearing completion, check it out: http://www.boogdesign.com/marlow Validates for XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS, even managed to use PNGs throughout (though an earlier iteration saw me u… more »

And it turns out IE totally messes everything up because it doesn't have proper support for the PNG format. The images just appear black... Please, please go and sign Proper PNG Support for IE Petition, not that it'll help much, we'll have to design fo… more »

Started work on the home page of this site today. I wanted it to be standards compliant, of course, but also wanted to try building something entirely with Open Source Software, rather than leaning heavily on Photshop and Dreamweaver like I normally do.… more »

Having recently got my company's new website uploaded (finally - eventually I just uploaded and went on holiday), we discovered a problem with printing. The new design looks very nice at 1024x768, menu/text/pictures all well balanced. However, when you… more »