Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
Social media, blogging, tweeting, facebooking, web design, and all the stuff that isn’t here yet. Subcategories highlight some areas of particular expertise.
The Leaky Cauldron is looking for somebody to redesign their site. The person in question must have extensive knowledge of HTML and CSS and web standards.
Congratulations to The Leaky Cauldron for putting forward web standards in their “job proposal”.
A few nice geeky links on the menu for today.
First, Web Standards Project II is live. Check the updated Browser Upgrade Initiative page, and see what the Dreamweaver Task Force has been up to. Stroll around the rest of the site too, there is lots of new stuff hidden everywhere.
Second, the definitive study on sizing text with CSS. See how all these browsers react to your attempts to control the size of your text (screenshots, 264 of them).
Third (and last for today), the CSS1 recommendation, annotated with relevant Mozilla bugs. Yay!
Mozilla 1.0 is out. Run and get it!
Tip: if the Mozilla download page confuses you, scroll down a bit until you see “Mozilla 1.0 – Released June 5, 2002”. Then click the link corresponding to your operating system in the grey box. Save the file to your desktop (or anywhere handy), then double-click to install.
I have been asked for permission to reprint a few paragraphs excerpted from Adventures in India. I have also been asked for an interview by the local state radio – they are doing a show on weblogs.
PS: just got home from a few days in England. Keeping my offline life busy. Not much to blog about – and as I always say, “better not to blog than to blog just to blog.”
Having trouble because part of your page doesn’t show up in Mozilla? Using sitemeter, by any chance?
You might be yet another victim of the vanishing div problem, documented by yours truly for the good of all.
Vous n’êtes sans doute pas sans savoir que notre chère amie Script est québécoise. Vous verrez que dans la bare de liens, j’ai changé le drapeau à côté de son nom.
Ben oui, je comprends tout à fait. Le drapeau français pour signaler la langue française, c’est bien joli – mais que fait-on des francophones non français? Vous savez, ça fait un moment qu’ils me gênent, ces drapeaux. Je ne suis pas française non plus, et plutôt fière de ma particularité helvète.
J’attends vos suggestions brillantes!
I’ve finally put my AstoundingWeb/Fathom5 reviews online. Enjoy!
Un grand merci à Evelyne pour m’avoir fait remarquer que la quasi-totalité des liens vers les pages intérieures de mon site étaient cassés. Et les autres, vous dormez?! En fait, c’est un problème de serveur que j’espère résoudre bientôt.
En attendant, essayez la chose suivante: à la place de https://climbtothestars.org/writing/fantome/ qui donne une erreur (par exemple), écrivez https://climbtothestars.org/writing/fantome.php. Faites les autres sur le même modèle. Désolée pour l’inconvénient, et ne désespérez pas!
Expect silence during these next days (weeks?). I’m offline to prepare my exams, which will happen on Tuesday
and Thursday next week. Wish me luck!
As soon as those are done with, I’m off to Birmingham — to see this little one, amongst other
lovely people. I’ll hop down to London with Danielle to see Private Lives (btw, if you’re a nice
person in London and you can accomodate the two of us for one night, drop
me an e-mail!)
Those of you who know my mobile number can use that to reach me while
I’m in Switzerland (I love sms!) — once I’m in England, email rules.
But most of all, have a nice time while I’m gone!