Lots of sites use short catchy 'action' terms to entice people into further sections of thier sites. The dreaded 'click here' is the all time classic but 'more', 'read more' and other variations also abound. The alternative is to highlight the actual text that the link comes from - though it is not always clear that...

A couple of Mac sites have complicated tables forming Mac like windows for showing stories. I wanted to try and do this in css alone and reduce the number of graphics as well. The css is as follows: #box1 { border: 1px #000000 solid; } #box2 { border: 1px solid; border-color: #fffffe #999999 #999999 #fffffe; } #box3...

I have seen a couple of examples of css roll over buttons on the web but they changed a simple square block of colour and I wanted something more stylish - more like what you do with graphical javascript rollovers. I decide the way to do it was to use an image as the background and change it in the style for a:hover...

Over the past few years I have become more and more engrossed with Cascading Style Sheets and the benefits they offer to the web. This year I have stepped up that interest with an eventual aim of changing all the sites that I run over to css. My mantra now is that the only time I use tables in my code is when I need...

Pete, Paula's brother and I went down to Leith hill near Dorking on Sunday morning for a five mile walk. It was very misty on the way down - which made the scenery going into Coldharbour all the more dramatic. The walk up to Leith Hill Tower was hard going for a few minutes but is do-able by all but the very unfit....

Just checked my hotmail account - which I only have so that I can use MSN Messenger because certain friends use it rather than ICQ. MSN are now expiring unused hotmail accounts after 30 days. What a pain! They claim its to save disk space. Hmmm. More likley to ensure that the e-mail addresses they are selling to...

The up side of being unwell is that I have spent this week delving into CSS. What a minefeild! I have used CSS for a longtime now but never for the page layout. The home page now uses my first public stab at it. I still have to break the home page down into php elements so that the rest of the site can be rebuilt...

Paula surprised me with a holiday in Japan for my birthday. We went on the 6th April and arrived back on the 18th and it was absolutely awesome. It has been my favourite destination ever and there is so much to take in. The written language - I can't read it and I have absolutely no idea what anything says. I don't...

Mum, dad, Conor, Lou and Steve are up for the day visiting - if you have been looking at the web cam you may have seen us! Dad is snoozing in the sun at the moment and I will have a post lunch nap myself in a moment. :)

Down in Deal for a little drink with Phil and Vicky for Phil's special old man birthday. Big hi to Steve because it's his birthday actually today!

OK Big changes to this page in July 2007! We now have a timelapse webcam picture for you. This is achieved by loading up the last 50 images onto the server and then showing you a flash slide show of them in reverse sequence. I have used the Monoslideshow flash system to create the slide show and I can highly...