Web Design
Image Centering with CSS
I’ve often had problems getting an image or a row of images to centre vertically in a div using just CSS. 2 weeks again when faced with this problem yet again while creating a logo slider, I cracked it. I’ve looked into this issue several times in the last few years without finding a definitive [...]
New Adventures in HTML5
Since HTML5 exploded onto the web design scene over the last year or so I’ve seen many wonderful and varied examples, read some of the books and investigated tools such as H5bp, Modernizer, shiv/shim and Initializr. I even got started with my own HTML5 endeavours with a simple, single page client site. But now it’s [...]
CSS3 Layered Background Image Stacks
New CSS3 technique: use a semi-transparent CSS3 gradient (using RGBa) overlaid on a textured background image to create colour-changeable a background image using CSS3 multiple background images.
Redesign for the Blue Haven Collection
The Blue Haven Hotel was a website I redesigned about 2 years ago and it was due a new facelift again recently. The overall style of the site was still working well but 2 years is a long time on the web and the site needed a refresh to modernise it. In addition to the [...]
