This week I spent a while looking at captcha scripts with the purpose of finding the ultimate one that will both be secure and user-friendly. I am regularly called upon by him indoors, who could be described as a ‘typical user’, to explain why forms won’t submit for him. To me, the process is straight-forward, but to the ‘typical user’ it’s not always obvious and I have had to save both the online transaction and the actual computer from the wrath of his anger.

I hear a lot of talk on Twitter and the bloggosphere about rendering issues in IE6 * and in my experience the most common one is the double margin problem.

In my previous post 5 Essential Plug-ins for WordPress I listed some pretty basic ones that I wouldn’t put a WP site live without. This next round-up is a list of useful but not really essential plug-ins.

WordPress is the most widely used publising platforms available.  While it is fully functional straight out-of-the-box, there are a number of essential plug-ins that will greatly improve your blogging experience. WordPress plug-ins are very easy to install and with a large community of developers working with and using WordPress you will find a plug-in to [...]

If you’ve used  Flash and DHTML on the same page may have come across this problem. In most browsers Flash will always display above other layers. So if you have have a CSS drop-down menu or pop-up lightbox image gallery, you will find the Flash element obscures your DHTML layer. The Solution You will need [...]

Anyone using Dreamweaver CS3 to create Spry horizonal menus will discover that they don’t display correctly in Internet Explorer.  There is a simple fix for this. In the CSS file add a width to the submenu style – around line 42: ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul { width: 250px; margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; font-size: 100%; z-index: [...]

Well it does if you are designing websites.  The important thing to bear in mind is your audience.  According to this w3schools.com report on browser statistics for January 2008  the  trend is that more and more people have their screen size set to 1024×768 pixels or greater with 48% viewing on 1024×768 and 38% using [...]

If you are using a screen resolution of 1024×768 or greater then you probably know how irritating it can be when the website you are looking at is stuck over on the left side of the screen. As well as being annoying for the reader, a nicely designed layout can loose so much of its [...]