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Easy image rollovers
Posted by Robin Whittleton on December 10, 2008
Recently themeforest.net ran a quick tutorial on how to achieve an image slide effect similar to our homepage. I thought I’d go into some more detail about the design decisions we made.
Say no to ugly widows &ndash
Widon't for the masses
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on November 11, 2008
OK, this may sound a bit funny and it may be considered over-attention to detail, but it can really spoil a design and potentially hamper reading when a headline doesn’t quite fit on a single line and leaves you with one word hanging underneath. That’s what we mean by a 'widow'.
This is particularly relevant to newspaper sites or blogs where the headline may form a central feature to the look of a whole page. It’s not just headlines though, even in body copy widows are generally considered poor style and should be avoided. But how to control them in a content-managed site? Luckily for those of us that worry about such things there’s Widon’t.
The Entifyr
Posted by Steven Wake on November 04, 2008
The Entifyr is a small web application that started life as an personal experiment to automate the removal of problem characters from client supplied content (usually Microsoft Word documents). The offending characters are replaced with corresponding entities (hence the name) allowing the content to display correctly.
Unobtrusive scripting with jQuery
Posted by Robin Whittleton on September 26, 2008
Here at Kyan we love unobtrusive scripting: scripting that adds on to the top of an existing web page and extends it to add functionality and interaction niceness.
We often use a Javascript library called jQuery to help us add scripting to our sites, and it’s got a nice extension mechanism. Let’s have a look at writing a small jQuery plugin to add a simple piece of functionality to our site: a print link after a news story.