One of the problems I ran across when doing web page layout. Is the ability to get a footer to hug the bottom of the browser window regardless of the length of the pages content. Then once I arrived at a solution, it didn’t work in all my target browsers. The below solution is the best I’ve seen to date. Check out Ryan Fait’s page for the information.

Make a Footer Stick to the Bottom of the Page: CSS Sticky Footer is Cross-Browser

There are several ways to make a footer stick to the bottom of a page using CSS. But until now, they’ve used long and messy hacks or a lot of extra HTML markup; this method uses only 15 lines of CSS and hardly any HTML markup. Even better, it’s completely valid CSS, and it works in all major browsers. Internet Explorer 5 and up, Firefox, Safari, Opera and more.

(Via ryanfait.com.)

I read the below article and thought is was worth bringing up. I LOVE Flash but flash has it’s proper uses and this article explains those uses. We all need to embrace these items and come up inventive ways to adhere to it.

Written by Samuel in Website Building

It’s recently occurred to me that I’ve been doing Flash sites now for 10 years and have seen it come a long way since Flash 4, where I first cut my teeth on Actionscript, tweening, and pixel fonts. Over the years, I’ve seen and done many projects, some of which utilized Flash in very useful ways, while others had no business using it. Sometimes, a Flash implementation hurt the company, detracted from the site’s purpose, and had poor results (all the while costing them more to build the site in the frst place). So in a world where too many companies want Flash websites and too few designers use Flash very well, here is a brief list of places that Flash currently does not belong (with very few exceptions):

(Via wakeuplater.com.)

With the introduction of Time Machine. Apple has introduced a solution for one of my worst computer habits. Not doing regular backups. Time Machines hourly backup schedule would be great if I owned a 10 terabyte hard drive or Drobo which is pretty much the same thing.
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