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Week-end’s discoveries: W3C Slidy rocks, SQLite sucks

Monday, November 6th, 2006

I found out a good tool to make slide shows without having to use a program such as PowerPoint or OpenOffice presentation, called Slidy.
You only have to include a JavaScript file, and optionally, a CSS in order to define different classes. All what you need is a basic [X]HTML/CSS knowledge, and go ahead! It […]

Is Nvu dead?

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Nvu is a powerful WYSIWYG HTML and XHTML editor. I exclusively use this program when designing web pages for it’s reliable, has many features, supports CSS and generates valid code, let’s not mention it’s free!
However, it has been exactly one year since the last release of Nvu, 1.0 in June 22nd, 2005; no update, […]

Feel the CSS beauty

Friday, April 28th, 2006

I am only technical when talking of Web design. Like all webmasters, I know how to make a style sheet from a blank file, give definitions to elements, classes and ID’s, put HTML tags and respecting the standards; but I’m not artist in anyway. Art requires feelings, passion, mastering, whereas I make HTML/CSS templates […]

XSL Rules!

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Reading Linux Gazette, I found a nice RDF with XSL document that maps a picture and describes its parts.
I have hacked on the original script in order to change the picture and encode it using GraphInside.
You may also map the image using circles, shapes, etc.
This was tested on only Gecko softwares (Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox) […]

CSS Humor

Monday, November 14th, 2005

UNINTENTIONAL HUMOR is often the funniest. I’m co-presenting with Eric Meyer at the always-fabulous UI Conference (celebrating its 10th year!) and Eric, describing positioning, inadvertently said: “Here’s how we relatively position an elephant”
Now, Eric’s known for his oft subtle humor, but this was more a we-just-finished-lunch-so-we-all-need-a-nap situation. It came flying out of his mouth, no […]

Edit CSS

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Sometimes, you can find a very interesting web page, but the display is bad, especially for shining and incompatible colors, or very small fonts, …
EditCSS can fix this, but only for you: after installing the Firefox extension, right click anywhere in the page, and tick “Edit CSS” option; it will open a side bar with […]

Culture Shock: doctors Office

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Found a cool medical HTML template at OSWD.
It’s XHTML compliant and has nice CSS features, without tables nor Javascript.


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