http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk Web developer and dog enthusiast Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:13:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok I am officially doing a very geeky thing - setting up Wordpress on my iPhone so I can update my blog on the move. http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk/index.php/2009/09/27/test-blog-post-using-iphone/ There is a definate trend emerging towards having a website centered horizontally on the page. Not a problem for many using the margin: auto css (remember though to assign a width to the element being centered otherwise margin: auto won`t work) but there is a slight pecadillo that messes this ... http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk/index.php/2009/09/07/force-vertical-scrollbar-on-all-browsers/ Wordpress is probably the best free system available today - fact. I have just upgraded the wordpress installation behind the site in preparation for a completely new look and feel to the blog. I have just upgraded to Wordpress 2.8.2 from... wait for it... 2.0.1! Lots will now be thinking, WTF, who ... http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk/index.php/2009/07/22/successful-upgrade-of-wordpress-from-ancient-to-new/ Have you ever had a div where the last thing in there (or even the only thing) is an image? If so you will most likely have found that most browsers puts 3px or so extra space beneath your image. Here's what I mean Thisis a div which consists of a background ... http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk/index.php/2009/04/29/that-niggling-extra-space-beneath-an-image-in-a-div/ Has anyone else noticed the blatant overuse of the word bespoke lately, even companies are being formed with the word bespoke in the title. Today there was a company van in front of me, 'Bespoke Painting' it had plastered all over the back and sides. Bespoke Painting? WTF?!?!?! Of course painting is going ... http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk/index.php/2008/10/23/bespoke-this-bespoke-that/ In late November we were told it was going to be a warm December and hardly any rain, yet again today I am defrosting my car in spitting rain! Why do they never get it right? The other day I put a forcast on BBC, the weathergirl (is that politically incorrect ... http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk/index.php/2007/12/14/uk-weather-forcasters-they-know-nothing-its-official/ This morning I have been developing a website from a series of .psd files. The designer did something that I haven`t had to code into a website for a very long time, the navigation area had an opacity, a semi transparent layer over an image. My first thought was cross ... http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk/index.php/2007/11/09/css-opacity-across-all-web-browsers/ I have just finished reading what is probably one of the best and heart hitting stories I have ever read. For me that is quite a statement, but the story is close to my heart and expresses feelings that unfortunately I don`t have the skills to write down (as readers ... http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk/index.php/2007/11/01/the-death-of-a-beloved-pet/ What's all that about? http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk/index.php/2007/10/02/guys-with-earrings/ If you live near Derbyshire you will most likely bump into Molly and myself out walking, although sometimes Molly decides to play hide and seek. In true Where's Wally stylee, here's is our own version, Where's Molly. See if you can find her, click the image for a larger version. This image ... http://www.davidfreelance.co.uk/index.php/2007/09/05/wheres-molly/