Conditional comments
I added a small new section to the code section of this site: some info about conditional comments. I've found them to be very useful, and they'll be one of the only ways of hacking around IE to remain...
View ArticleSmall update to table sorting script
My table sorting javascript has been updated slightly. It now supports sorting of €x.xxx amounts, where it didn't support the € sign first, and it now supports the xx.xx.xxxx date format.Small...
View ArticleWhy pay for web design?
The intention of most people who decide to create a new website is to create a steady source of income for themselves. So some people may wonder why they should spend some of their budget on paying...
View ArticleFunny way of connecting webdesigners and clients
Vendorseek has a funny way of connecting web designers and clients for web design services... Maybe i should sign up for the other end of it too :). Seriously, i've seen occasions were people pay way...
View ArticleSEO, Webdesign, e-commerce: you should do it all
Or none of it... The longer i work in this business, the more i feel you can either do it all, or do nothing at all, because you need to have a pretty good knowledge of say, webdesign, to do SEO, or of...
View ArticleNew design!
As you can see, or if you're reading this from a feed, you should see, this site has had a redesign. The new layout has a fully intended web2.0 feel to it, with improved readability as one of the main...
View ArticleDoes Internet Explorer 7 like your website?
The IE blog recently announced that Internet Explorer 7 will be available for users in a few weeks time, delivering it to user via automatic update a few weeks later. This gives you a few weeks to make...
View ArticleW3C Validator API
The W3C announced the release of an API for the HTML validator or rather, that's what they call it. In fact, it's nothing more than an output filter on their normal validator output, which gives SOAP...
View ArticleUpdate to sortable table script
Ok, i've fixed one hell of a bug in the table sorting script which must have been in there for at least 2 months, screwing up sorting incredibly, sorry for that. I added in a new feature as well, you...
View ArticleMore sortable table fun!
I've been improving the sortable table javascript a lot in the past days, loads of bugs have been fixed, and I've set up a small email newsletter to those interested, if you'd like to be included in...
View ArticleGreasemonkey auto-update notification
One of the biggest advantages of an extension over a GreaseMonkey script is the possibility of automatic update notification for the user. For my Greasemonkey statistics detector I've been looking in...
View ArticleSortable table v1.5
I've just updated my sortable table script to version 1.5, in which it is fixed to work in Safari for Mac OS X 10.4 as well, (I didn't even know that it wasn't working in there since it always worked...
View ArticleGoogling for microformats
Imagine, you can type in a query like "joost de valk class:vcard" and Google comes up with my contact page, because that has a vcard class in it's markup, the main class of the hCard microformat. This...
View ArticleSortable table script updated to v1.5.5
I got an email from Mozilla's director of product management Sherman Dickman today, that my sortable table script wasn't sorting numbers above 1 million which have comma's in them correctly (they do...
View Article“Officially” starting my own Webdesign company
I've been doing webdesign work for friends and family for years already, but I've now decided to start my own webdesign company, called AlthA Webdesign Nijmegen. I won't be taking hundres of jobs since...
View ArticleFeedRoll
Today I finished up my work on FeedRoll, a site which offers a widget to show RSS feeds on your site. I've fixed several things on it, yet the most fun came today. There was a colorpicker on it before...
View ArticleThe correct way of using conditional comments
Some people, like Jens Meiert, have argued that using conditional comments to fix layout bugs for IE is wrong. For those of you who don't know what they are, check out my article on conditional...
View ArticleServing XHTML as application/xhtml+xml
When you're coding XHTML, you should deliver it as application/xhtml+xml. The problem is however, that once you do that, IE 6 & 7 break horribly... For your pages to render properly in those...
View ArticleWebdesign survey
It's up again, the annual webdesign survey by A List Apart, I took it, and so should you! (If you don't like surveys do it for the prizes...)Webdesign survey is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast -...
View ArticleAdded a print CSS style sheet
Today, I checked an item off on my todo list that had been on there way too long: I created a print style sheet for this site. Every time I write an article that is longer than 5 paragraphs, I get...
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