Well I’ve not posted on here for a while but it doesn’t mean I’m not busy. In fact it means I am very busy.
For those who don’t pop onto Smashing Magazine too often you may not have noticed but I wrote an article for them a while back which has just been published. It’s about using decision making models and applying them to web design scenarios, so why not go and check it out.
Decision-Making Models In Web Development
Welcome to the internet home of web designer, developer, pilot person and Cumbria dweller Dave Sparks.
CSS hover tabs realigned.
This was requested on the original CSS hover tabs post and as usual it has taken me ages to get around to doing it.
Anyway it is just the previous version realigned and also with an added tab to show you how easy it is to customise and add extra tabs.
You can view the demo here, it’s pretty straight forward and I won’t go into detail as it is all worked using the same principles as the original post so read that first and then take a look at the source of this one. It’ll do you good to do some thinking and look at what’s changed!
Do you want a great web job?
Lake Windermere, see it’s really nice up here. (image Flickr)
Well do you? Are you a great web designer or developer looking to work for an upcoming web agency? You get encouraged to use new web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 and get to work in an area with some great scenery to boot?
Do you want my job!? – quite literally. I’m leaving as a nice man with an orange airline has offered me a job flying his planes. However I’m still sad as Armitage has been a great place to work and Andrew is a brilliant boss.
So if you feel you’d like to work in the Lake District and spend your weekdays building great websites for some great clients and then have the weekends to freely explore the Lakes then head over and read the full job spec on the Armitage http://www.armitageonline.co.uk/about/jobs/ and retweet this and pass it on to anyone you think might be interested.
This doesn’t mean this site will go to rack and ruin, I’ll still be blogging and still doing some web stuff it just won’t be full time so expect the same little tips and tricks and musing from me.
JQuery HTML5 placeholder fix
I’ve revisited this post here – Revisiting HTML5 placeholder fixes I recommend you check that update out.
One of the nifty new features of HTML5 is the placeholder for forms which is added by putting in a placeholder value.
So I can use this everywhere I’ve just written a quick bit of jQuery to replicate the placeholder functionality in browser that don’t support. It also uses Modernizr to check if the browser already supports the placeholder technique.
The Randomiser Interview #8 – Inayaili De León
This weeks interviewee for the randomiser is the designer behind the great blog Web Designer Notebook, Inayaili De León.