I got some emails by people asking me how the script powering the css table gallery works. Instead of answering each and every email, please refer to the following if you are also curious:

• The making of the CSS table gallery

It is by far not a “best of breed” piece of scripting, but hey, it gets the job done.

Content management systems with WYSIWYG editors have issues with some templates using CSS for layout – effectively forcing the designer to cater both for the CMS and the final browser. This post proposes the idea of an editor style sheet to overcome these problems.

Good web developers should have realised by now that there are a lot of different user agents out there and the web does not only consist of Internet Explorer 6 users on Windows XP with a resolution of 1024×768 pixels. Therefore we test on different browsers and settings – as defined in the project scope document. Most of the time this does involve MSIE 6 and MSIE 5.5, if we are lucky even Firefox and maybe Safari. Personally I tend to develop on Firefox and then fix MSIE glitches and do some sanity testing on Safari and the newest Opera flavour. Lately however, I realised that we are likely to forget another user agent – for another user group – the content management system. (more…)

My company is currently asking me once again to create an HTML newsletter. And once again, the content is not quite finished. Now, I do so not want to create an HTML newsletter, because:

• email is flooded as it is
• I have yet to encounter an HTML newsletter that is not bloated or works in all my email clients in use (Gmail, Squirrelmail, Firefox, Outlook)
• I would like our emails to reach the recipents, not end up in spam filters.

Personally, I want my company to support RSS, as we all know the benefits:

• You can easily create it from an interface like WordPress
• It is a Pull and not a Push technology, meaning I invite people to learn about us, not force them to
• It is much more versatile and supported by more readers / platforms

The issue I have now is how to tell business stake holders about this. They heard of successful email campaigns and of course they have read newsletters they love (in Outlook). Are there any success stories about RSS out there?

I just had to deactivate Mint on the CSS table gallery as it maxed out the server resources due to too many database connects per minute. I posted on the help forum and see if there is a way around that. A shame, I like the product a lot.

The beep has a nice new test for you to find out what kind of personality you are.

Allegedly I am a big thinker