http://michaelplant.info Web Designer by Choice Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:07:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick note because I had a hard time hunting down the issue. While in the process of doing a redesign for one of our clients I was changing the pages over to XHTML Transitional and was having some really weird character reference issues. It seems HTML4 handles the ... http://michaelplant.info/uncategorized/character-encoding-issues-arrising-from-content-stored-in-a-sql-server-database/2008/10/23 Image you wanted an anchor tag to fill the entire space around an image background as well as the text. Generally I use padding on the anchor tag and Display:Block to get ti to display the way I want. The problem is that in IE6 the display block ... http://michaelplant.info/ie6-bugs/another-ie6-bug-when-displaying-anchor-tags-as-block-element/2008/09/18 So I have this professed love for accessibility and usability. While I'll admit I definitely don't know enough about both I have a desire to get my hands on everything I can. If you haven't read anything from Interface Designer Luke Wroblewski then head over to his site ... http://michaelplant.info/form-design/real-time-form-feedback-a-usability-dream-come-true/2008/08/12 This is an adapted version of Eric Meyer's reset without going overboard. It includes miscellaneous conveniences to give a good start on any website. I use this code snippet to begin all of my main screen css files for any new build. Take a look here is ... http://michaelplant.info/css-snippets/hello-world/2008/07/26