Archive for the 'Web Standards' Tag

A JavaScript overlay image gallery

We interrupt the travelogues to talk about some geeky stuff that’s been going on around these parts.
I’ve recently been using grids of thumbnails to link to Flickr photos as they relate to blog posts (e.g. my previous post). One thing I’ve wanted to do is find a way to show these images without sending viewers […]

Dallas, Austin and SXSW, USA

Early March saw us say goodbye to my Mum at San Francisco airport and move on to Dallas and Austin, Texas. A visit to the Sixth Floor Museum and a little boozing with the very hospitable Jade and Carter lightened up the otherwise dull city of Dallas before we hit Austin, the jewel in the […]

Re-thinking Flash…

The very funny Flash Website Flowchart (Should I make a Flash site?) I recently linked to (”elsewhere”) featured an interesting discussion in the comments that made me think about Flash again - when is it best to use Flash, and if you do, how do you do it right?
Generally speaking, I’ve been one to […]

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 […]

Nifty Corners

I thought I would break my drought in posts with this interesting technique that we’ve been looking into at work as a potential headache preventer. Using CSS and a bit of DOM scripting, Alessandro Fulciniti has combined some good ideas to produce a powerful technique to create clean rounded edges (which I like around here) […]