Often designers will want fixed font sizes so that the text on the actual size will exactly match their mockups, but The Web is Not Print (see also Pixel Perfect Design Does Not Necessarily Equal Good Web Design). A List Apart has a worked out a good method for sizing text consistently across browsers while [...]
All currently available versions of Internet Explorer incorrectly display colors in PNG images. To work around that, instead of setting a background color, you can use create 1×1 pixel image with the color you want, and set it as a repeating background image.
Tomas Bagdanavicius has created a fast, themeable, cross-browser CSS-based Drop-Down Menu Framework that only uses Javascript for IE6.
I just spent an hour trying to figure out why the NTP service I installed wasn’t working, and then I came across this slightly important little fact:
Your internal workstation computers will not be able to use the server as a synchronisation source until the LOCAL(0) clock has stable time. This may take up to 15 minutes [...]
I’m not a big fan of CMS Made Simple, but I end up doing a lot of sites in it by request. It’s taken me awhile, but I think I’ve found a way to structure templates that doesn’t make me want to club baby seals out of frustration.
First, what I don’t like about it. There [...]
