UPDATE 2014: Please now also see Full Screen Responsive Background Image with CSS Something that I’m often asked is how to stretch an image on screen horizontally and vertically by 100%. In the past I’ve used a number of different techniques for this, but as usual it’s the simple solutions that are the best. In fact this method is so …
Protecting your content
The very nature of the Internet means that content is freely available and there are a number of stalwarts out there who would insist that it’s bad form to make areas of your web site inaccessible. But hey we live in the real world and there are legitimate reasons for individuals and businesses may want to protect their web site’s …
Target IE6, IE7 and IE8 in your CSS
So you’ve created a site and it looks great in Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox and even the horrible Internet Explorer 8, but then you check it in Internet Explorer 6 & 7 and it looks terrible. Now you need to make some CSS tweaks to bring everything in line, but trying to do this universally across all browsers is neon …
The Google Star
We spend a lot of time optimising our client’s sites for the Search Engines and of course Google is always a key area that we focus on. Recently I was checking our own site to ensure that optimisation changes were kicking in as expected and I noticed a new item in the listing. It’s a small blue star next to …
Should I use Flash on my web site?
It’s interesting that if you type in the keyword ‘Should I use Flash on my web site’ that it pulls up loads of results in Google from way back in 2005 / 2006 and perhaps this is telling in itself – but it’s still an important question that is being asked. Indeed today a client of ours asked if we …