IE6 CSS Hack Cheat Sheet

Internet Explorer 6 – web developers love to hate it. But, unfortunately, IE7 adoption rate is not going as fast as expected, so we still need to make websites look decent in IE6. I recently spent quite some time making Century21.ca look decent in IE6, the following is a quick cheat sheet of the most...

Best Realestate Website Ever

After months of hard work, Century21.ca was launched yesterday at 5:21 pm. It is a pretty awesome website, we are very pleased with how it turned out. So if you are looking for a house in Canada this is the site for you! Next up: sleep.

Web Programming is Misunderstood

When people ask me what I do for a living I often say, “I am a web programmer”, or “I develop websites” to which they then say, “Oh, you design websites”. At which point I sigh heavily and, depending on who is doing the asking and how much I care at the time, proceed...

IE 7 and PNG

For the past few days I have been working on a frustrating problem with Internet Explorer 7 – two websites that my company created and supports are totally unusable in IE7. The pages take a long time to load, and when they do load they continue to use more than 50% of the CPU. After some hunting,...

CSS Overflow – IE bug

I discovered an interesting Internet Explorer CSS bug today relating to relatively positioned elements inside and element with overflow set to auto. Say you make a div that scrolls using some basic CSS .overflow { height:250px; width:200px; overflow:auto; } Works just fine, as the example below shows: Lorem...

Rondam Ramblings: Top ten geek business myths

A link I came across today while reviewing my notes from the conference: 10 geek business myths

The Future of Web Apps

Next week I will be attending The Future of Web Apps a 2-day conference in San Francisco. There are some pretty big names (in the web industry) who will be speaking there, so I am pretty excited. Kris is attending as well, so we will be spending a few extra days in and around the city.