Archive for September, 2006

McFarlane Prize - Highly Commended award

Congratulations Glass Onion, for the inaugural McFarlane Prize 2nd place “Highly Commended” award for a great team effort on the ACPE website.
It’s great that the McFarlane Prize is giving recognition to developers not only for good design but for all round well built solutions. Building to web standards and best practices is seldomly valued or […]

McFarlane Prize - shortlisted!

Regretfully, I couldn’t get to the Web Directions conference this year, but it was a pleasant surprise to be invited to attend the closing session of said conference, and award ceremony for the inaugural McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian Web Design.
I’ll be going along representing Glass Onion, shortlisted for the design and development […]

Big news…

Okay, the word is now officially out - the lovely Megan and I are embarking on an extended around the world trip, spanning five continents stopping at London for an extended period where we will work and continue the European leg of our trip. We plan to be away from Sydney for about 18-24 months.
Prior […]

Easy CSS Drop Caps

While I’m sharing techniques, here’s one I’ve been playing around with recently, for making simple CSS drop caps. Y’know, starting a written piece with a nice big letter…

Skip straight to the examples here: Example 1, Example 2.
I know this isn’t new, and can probably be achieved in a variety of ways. I do it by […]