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13 Jul 2011

Ten Techie Terms

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“Live Long and Prosper” As you move into the world of the web you will need to learn some new vocabulary. In the web world there are a range of technologies, acronyms and disciplines that can confuse the newbie (there’s one already – newbie – personage new to the technology). Here are ten to help…

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21 Jun 2011

How can you teach web design?

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How can you teach web design? Should you teach design? Or should you teach technologies? Should you start with a code editor, Photoshop, Dreamweaver or WordPress? I don’t pretend to have the answers to these questions but am going to use this blog to muse on these issues starting with the question: Who would want…

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22 Dec 2010

Horizontal Menus from Humble HTML Lists

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Easy and nice CSS trick to convert a humble HTML list into a horizontal menu bar. Start with your basic HTML list: Add the following styles. See a working demo here To create the dividers a border-left property is applied to all the links.  However, we don’t want this on the first list item, so…

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19 Jan

One Hell of a Week

Posted in capacity as Module Leader Group Software Development, Department of Computing Sheffield Hallam University A Morgue One hundred students, 10 clients, 5 labs of University PCs, overzealous Facilities department and the Sheffield weather. What could possibly go wrong? Last week was ‘Scrum Week’. Nineteen groups of students working flat out 9-5, Monday to Friday…

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11 Jul

Flexbox Technicals – Part Two

Before reading the following ensure you are happy with the flexbox concepts of main axis and cross axis discussed in my previous post. Justification on the main axis The CSS property justify-content is used to control spacing between and around items along the main axis (assuming extra space is available). It is applied to the…

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11 Jul

Flexbox Technicals – Part One

The concept of ‘flexible box’ or flexbox is name of the CSS3 flex layout model. Flexbox is based around flex containers and flex items. A flex container is a parent element to flex items.  Flex items are the immediate children of the flex container and can be laid out in any direction. Take the following simple…

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