I [heart] open-source. To the extent where it almost limits the scripts and packages I use because I refuse to actually pay for anything - I’m sure I can find an alternative out there in the jungle of the web. This site is built with Wordpress, one of the finest open-source packages on the net. [...]

I’m a big believer in semantic, valid mark-up. Both XHTML and CSS. And it’s fairly safe to say that every website I build now contains valid code, unless in the case of integrating a complex script which makes it extremely difficult to obtain the coveted W3C valid link at the bottom of the site.
There is [...]

Just a little muse. The question in principal may seem ridiculous, but honestly - what can’t you do on the Internet? Perhaps let’s start with what you can do.
A scenario. I’m an exceptionally lazy person (I’m not - this is for the sake of my example). I’m sat at my computer, watching a film [...]

News on the grapevine - Microsoft have officially entered a bid to purchase Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Firstly, that is a sickening amount of money. Secondly, this seems another attempt to monopolise another market.
I understand the computer world was Microsoft’s upbringing - it’s home territory. Over the past few years it’s managed to wrestle it’s [...]

It seems I’m on fire at the moment. As well as finally getting round to creating a blog site, today (1st Feb) is the launch date of my new web-based company: Sans Design!
For those of you interested in the name, it’s a bit of a joke. ‘Sans’ is Latin, meaning ‘Without’. Therefore ‘Without Design’ is [...]

Web 2.0, accessibility, cross-browser compatibility, valid HTML, semantic mark-up and everything else that ties nicely together into a neat package called web standards are all the rage among forward-thinking web designers at the moment.
And rightly so. I, as I’m sure you do, wish to be able to view a site in any browser, on [...]