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A style tag counts as a :first-child

In webdesign on 24 August 2011 tagged code, css, fix, html, html5, webdesign with Comments Off

EDIT 2011-09-15: All of this applies to <script> in the body as well. I have some bad news and a fix (I hesitate to call it good news). HTML5 introduces a way for us to include <style> elements on the page, we just need to give them an attribute of scoped. So, for example, if [...]

Maintaining your CSS helps maintain your site

In webdesign on 10 December 2009 tagged bcit, code, css, web design, webdesign with Comments Off

Rather than doing one giant redesign and launch, at BCIT, we’ve been doing small updates for a while now. Take our footer for example, I got to update all of them using the CSS a few times and then we decided we wanted to mix up the HTML. Templates and applications were updated with the [...]

CSS bug in IE 6 with: .class a:hover element

In webdesign on 19 December 2007 tagged bug, code, css, ie with Comments Off

This bug seems to apply to styling elements under a class or id within a link on hover. Stuff like .class a:hover span{} or #id a:hover strong{}. The solution is to define a property on the parent link .class a:hover{} that hasn’t been declared anywhere else in your CSS, like a text indent of 0 [...]

Searching for an answer

In webdesign on 29 June 2007 tagged code, html, seo with Comments Off

Has anyone else noticed a bunch of really old HTML coding tutorials at the top of their search results when searching for answers to HTML coding questions lately? I was trying to find out if legend was a required tag in fieldset and I got a tutorial that said not to use legend because Netscape [...]

Styling Our Style Sheets

In webdesign on 23 April 2007 tagged bcit, code, css, guidelines, html, learning, nervous, web standards, work with Comments Off

I’ve been wanting to seriously redo some of the HTML and CSS behind the BCIT site since I came on board here almost a year ago. Well, I get my wish. We’re going to take some baby steps towards semantic HTML and CSS (POSH if you like) and despite my aversion to being in charge, [...]

Don’t judge me on my code

In webdesign on 23 April 2007 tagged code, css, html, metablogging, web standards with 1 comment

Just like the current BCIT site’s code is horrible thanks to our restrictive CMS I’m not happy with my current blog theme, please don’t judge me on it.

Striving for excellence

In personal, webdesign on 30 March 2007 tagged accomplishment, bcit, big picture, career, code, HOPE, microformats, podcasts, self-taught, sociology with Comments Off

I just finished my first micoformatted page! When I was writing the information page for HOPE’s spring dinners I coded all the dinners as events and the organizers as hcards :) I did work with Brandon to re-do the BCIT Contacts application to use microformats but he did most of the coding on that project. [...]

Something new today

In Uncategorized on 25 March 2007 tagged code, html, learning, oops, self-taught with Comments Off

So apparently we’re supposed to be encoding ampersands when we write them in the href part of anchor tags. <a href=”http://stephaniehobson.ca/file.php » ?fire=hot&amp;beer=foamy”>link</a>

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In webdesign on 6 March 2007 tagged code, css, handy, html, learning, self-taught, WDN with Comments Off

I am, for the most part, self taught when it comes to HTML and CSS. I’ve take a few courses to get a piece of paper that says I can do what I say I can do but learned very little from them. I spotted this little CSS tidbit in a presenter’s code at the [...]