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CSS Hyperlink Styling
September 19, 2005
In this CSS tip, we’ll be looking at various ways to style hyperlinks using CSS. There are many different methods and techniques that you can use to create uniquely styled links, and we’ll explore some of them here.
By default, hyperlinks in browsers are underlined. Normal links are blue, visited links are purple and active links (depending on the browser) are red. Designers do not want to live life by default though, so CSS provides some powerful ways to style your hyperlinks, allowing you to create a look and feel that best suits your design.
Firefox 1.5 Review
December 10, 2005
Firefox 1.5 has been out for about 2 weeks now, and after using it since it came out, I thought I’d post my thoughts on Mozilla’s latest offering.
The newest release of Firefox offers several enhancements and upgrades to existing features, some of which are really nice and negate the need to use a few popular extensions. As far as new features and major upgrades, anyone hoping for those will probably have to wait for Firefox 2.0.
Switch Journal: First Impressions
January 6, 2007
Well, here it is, part one of the recently announced Switch Journal. I promised that my first entry to this series would be all about my first impressions of the MacBook Pro and my “switch” experience, so that’s what this post will be all about. Experienced Mac users will probably have heard most of these thoughts (or thought them themselves) before, but feel free to add your input to the mix.
My first real experiences with Apple products (not including the time I spent working on them during high school, the OS 9 days) came because of the iPod. About 2 years ago I bought my wife an iPod Mini for her birthday and it was then that I started to develop an appreciation for Apple and their brand. I’ve always been one to notice little details - whether it’s a little phrase in a song that stood out to me, or tiny things in the background of a scene of video - so Apple’s attention to detail is always something I’ve both noticed and appreciated.
Why do I blog?
February 19, 2007
Fresh off my vacation I found out this morning that I’ve been tagged by Adrian with the latest blog meme that’s going around. Why do I blog?
I’m not quite sure how I feel about the whole meme thing and I know a lot of people find them annoying, but like Adrian said, this one is particularly relevant. It’s always good to state (or even question) why you do the things you do even if it’s only to justify them to yourself, so here are 5 reasons (in no particular order) why I still bother with this blog thing.
Why I still can’t use Safari
December 21, 2007
It’s been just over a year since I made the full time switch to Mac and my software tastes have definitely evolved some since I first posted my list of frequently used applications a while back. Sometime soon, I’ll probably revise that list, but for now I just wanted to touch on one application that I still can’t use on a regular basis. Safari.
Using Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer
March 25, 2006
Up until a couple of weeks ago, I thought that there was no way to use transparent or semi-transparent PNG images in IE. I was wrong. My only excuse is a bad one too: I read it somewhere.
The truth is that there is a pretty good way to use transparent PNG images with CSS. It’s not without its drawbacks (I’ll get into those later) and it doesn’t use valid CSS, but while we wait for PNGs to be fully supported by all major browsers, it seems to me that it’s a fairly good solution.
Microsoft is on the Standards Train
January 7, 2006
It started earlier this year with Microsoft’s (mostly) standards-based redesign of MSN.com. Now, it’s nice to see that Microsoft is continuing in that vein by designing their new Windows Vista homepage using a standards-based design.
What’s even nicer is that the homepage is actually quite attractive (unlike MSN.com). It doesn’t have a whole lot of content in there yet, but it’s a good start so far. The markup isn’t terribly incredible (no lists for links, etc.) and it doesn’t validate, but that’s not really the point here. As we all know, validation is not the number one priority. Accessibility is.
CSS Tips
September 6, 2005
I’ve been thinking about this for the past few weeks now, and I’ve finally decided to move on it. I’m going to start a CSS Tips library that will be updated frequently and filled with tips and how-to walkthroughs of various CSS techniques.
These tips will probably start off at the beginner level and will progress in difficulty as they move forward. In honour of these new tips, a new category has been added to the Blog called CSS Tips, where all of the Tips will be filed.
reinspire.net
June 9, 2005
Welcome to reinspire.net
Eventually, this site will be a personal collection of anything I feel like putting online. Pictures, thoughts, interesting links, etc. I’ll also have a blog on the site that will be updated regularly with anything pertaining to the world of Web Development. Design, Coding, CSS, XHTML, Standards… You name it, it’ll all show up at some point here at reinspire.
This site started off as a free blog on Blogger, but from the beginning I knew that was just a temporary home. Being influenced by sites like Stopdesign, mezzoblue, SimpleBits and Mike Industries, I decided that I wanted to start my own site mostly as a programming project to see if I could do it. I knew I could, but I thought I’d put it all to practice and actually produce something.
February’s Random Thoughts
February 27, 2006
February turned out to be a much busier month than I was anticipating. Despite being extremely busy though, I did manage to find time to work on the site. For those of you who subscribe to the RSS feed - you’ll notice that I’ve added the Recent Links section of the site to the feed. A lot of the other things that I’ve been working on will be launched soon.
Getting back to February, there were a lot of ideas I had to post about, but never got a chance to actually write them. Plenty of ideas, but not enough time right now. So here’s a few of the things I’ve had on my mind over the past 27 days.