November 30, 2005
So here’s the thing. Having been at my job now for a month, I’ve done a hell of a lot of reading the ins and outs of CSS layout design and such like and come across various issues with cross browser compatibility, so much so that I’m pulling out my hair when IE5 on the MAC doesn’t want to behave itself after Firefox, Safari, Camino and all the others are fine…
Anyhow, reading articles and books is fine, but realising that going on a course/workshop is needed is even better, so I put it on the table for my boss and she was happy to pay for it if I could find one suited for my needs.
Enter the dilemma…
Came across a course being held in January by Dave Shea of CSS ZenGarden by CarsonWorkshops which looks great. Now I was originally gonna get booked onto this, but then came across an advanced CSS day course run by GBDirect. This course seems to be more technical and allows a thorough going through of what you need to know, whereas the Dave Shea course seems to concentrate more on the workflow and popular problems you may encounter in layout building.
The problem is that the GBDirect course isn’t available until March, whereas the CarsonWorkshop is in January…now do I hold out until March or take the January course? And before anyone asks, I don’t think its an option to take both at this point in time!
November 22, 2005
Venue: Shepherds Bush Empire
Supporting Act: Robert Post
Artist: Natalie Imbruglia
Verdict: Brilliant!
Despite the cold weather and boiling hot pumpkin soup I downed at the Vesbar, attending the gig was worth it. Robert Post was excellent, and definitely gonna be listening out for more of his stuff.
Never really attended a gig and been in standing so was an experience…always thought I was quite tall, but the guy with the huge afro and other tall blokes around me proved me wrong, but got a good enough view, and had a great time listening to all the faves…a good spread of songs across all three albums…just brilliant (although very very random in terms of song selection throughout the course of the show)!
The woman is just plain stunning, (cow)…kinda reminds me of a tiny Alanis Morrisette the way she was performing on stage…a good mix of people, and an all round fun night. So for those attending her performances over the next few weeks…enjoy!
November 8, 2005
Been browsing through a lot of sites that have adopted the CSS layout fad at the moment, and thought I’d share a few more with you:
- StyleGala - another web standards site.
- Stop Design AND another css/web standards site.
- 31three - a nice looking CSS layout based site.
Anyone that can help me in figuring out the difference in benefits of XHTML strict and XHTML transitional doctypes would be greatly appreciated!!!
