Enhancing your designs with CSS3

When I designed the current version of this site I always had it in my mind that one day in the dim and distant future I would enhance the design with some CSS3. I wasn’t thinking about anything too radical - rounded corners, and some shadows on my fonts and boxes would do. Well after reading an excellent article on Smashing Magazine by Inayaili de Leon appropriately enough titled Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3 I decided to do just that. Bear in mind that many browsers, especially ones beginning with IE, still do not support these enhancements.

CSS3 enhancement in PC Safari example - nav
CSS3 enhancement in PC Safari example - tab
CSS3 enhancement in PC Safari example - panel

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Categories: CSS, Design

Chocolate finger people

Chocolate finger people

Categories: Stuff

Bull fighting in Seville

Bull fighter and bull

Update:

Finally got around to uploading a set to Flickr - Bull fighting in Seville.

Categories: Travel

Uncle Robert on BBC Inside Out programme via iPlayer

Uncle Robert harvesting on the BBC

My family has a long history. Very long apparently. Some of it has been captured on film. The BBC broadcast a short piece with my Uncle Robert on InsideOut on the 5th November 2008.

Film is available here (starts around 20:30s) -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fd1n9/Inside_Out_Yorkshire_and_Lincolnshire_05112008/

Categories: Stuff

Sydney Marathon

Sydney marathon

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Categories: Stuff

No surprises - ExpressionEngine 2.0 has been delayed!

ExpressionEngine logo

EllisLab have annouced that EE 2.0 won't be released for a while. Obviously I'm a bit disappointed, but not surprised in the least. I had a feeling that they were just trying to drum up interest with premature announcements and presentations at SXSW. They have come nowhere near reaching their anticipated launch this summer. I wish they had been a bit more up front with thier plans as I can imagine that many people will have put off upgrading or moving sites to EE while waiting for the new version to come around. I wonder how this delay announcement will go down with the developer community which is usually so loyal?

Categories: ExpressionEngine

Quantum of Solace

Quantum of Solace screengrab - Daniel Craig with a massive weapon

I'm already looking forward to the next installment of the new Bond. The trailer looks amazing. Shame I'm going to have to wait till October 31st to see it.

Categories: Stuff

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