August 4th 2009
When you’re building a website, it’s important to ensure it looks good in a variety of browsers. I’m currently working on a site at the moment and I wanted to see how it looked in Internet Explorer 6. The only problem is that my computer now runs Internet Explorer 8.
I found a useful tool called MultipleIEs which allows you to run standalone versions of Internet Explorer 6 and it’s predecessors.
Might be a good thing for web designers to have!
July 3rd 2009
Here’s a tip for you web designers out there.
Ever needed to spellcheck your website once it’s live online? I’ve just found out that it’s possible to do this in Firefox. Go to the website you want to spellchecked and then enter the following in the address bar-
javascript:document.body.contentEditable=‘true’; document.designMode=‘on’; void 0
This tip came courtesy of Urbanos Blog
javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0
October 10th 2008
After sitting doing some thinking last night, I realised that this website is actually incomplete.
I intended to have completed the photo area and the portfolio area by now, but that hasn’t happened.
I’ve been wondering if I need a photo area at all on this website. Yes, I’m still an avid photographer (even if I’m not that great at it) but, Flickr seems to take care of all my needs at the moment. I’ve already coded a photo gallery and I could implement it on this site but it would involve having to re-upload all the images that are on Flickr and I don’t have the time to do that just now.
The portfolio area is definitely staying, no question about it. I’m planning to graduate next July (2009) and think I should have somewhere to showcase the work I’ve done.
Look out for some changes coming up!
July 28th 2008
Welcome to the new look Lynsay’s Little World! 
A redesign had been in the pipelines for some time now but I couldn’t settle on a colour scheme. I knew I wanted some pink on the site but not the kind of pink that sets off a migraine- I think I have achieved that. Ok, so it’s not completely different to the design I used before but, changing the colours around a little and adding rounded corners/handwriting effects have freshened the site up a little.
There’s still a lot of work to do though- the form on the contact page needs to be fixed and I need to recreate the photography area. The photography area is undergoing a complete makeover- I’m going to implement a photo gallery which I created for the Internet Development module at university. It has to be tweaked though- for starters, I was forced to use MS SQL Server 2005 over MySql so the syntax will need to be changed.
In addition to this, I have taken the portfolio area down at the moment. I’m hoping to develop a mini site with it’s own sub domain to showcase work I’ve done over the past few years. This will become increasingly important because I’m scheduled to graduate next July and this will serve as a folio area which prospective employers can browse though.
I think that’s all for the moment. Comments and queries are welcome (but don’t use the contact page quite yet!)
July 27th 2008
It’s finally happened.
Yes, that’s right. I’ve decided on a colour scheme for the redesign of this website. I think. No, wait, I’m sure.
I think.
June 14th 2008
Yeah, I’ve been considering this for a while and I think it’s time this site got a face lift and gets generally freshened up a little.
….and I’m considering making this site pink….
*runs*
May 29th 2008
Ok, before I start, I’m not reffering to Download as in the music festival. Download Day 2008 is going to be the day in June when Firefox 3 is released (the date hasn’t been confirmed yet). Basically, Mozilla want to everyone to download Firefox 3 on this day in an attempt to make it into the Guniness Book of Records for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
Go make your pledge.
“Please don’t hurt the web. Use open standards” 
April 27th 2008
Why the lack of proper updates? Quick explanation- things have been hectic over the last few weeks.
Remember how I was supposed to be on holiday from university from 31st March until the 20th April? Well, that didn’t really happen.
I’m sure I mentioned in a previous blog that I was working on a photo gallery application for a class at uni. Owing to the fact my university insists on using SQL Server 2005, rather than MySql, every time I wanted to make a wee change to my database, I had to go in to uni to do it. I’m not saying that that’s a bad thing- I think working at uni might have made me focus a little more- if I’d been sitting at home it would have been easier to find something to distract me.
There were parts of my site that I really struggled with. There were days I got really frustrated to the point I thought I was going to have some sort of breakdown and wanted to quit it all (no, really).
Just when I thought everything was hunky dory (wait, who uses that expression anymore?), I discovered I’d have to transfer all my work to another server which upset me greatly. Ok, I know that’s not exactly an onerous task but I was worried some part of my site would break. Guess what, part of my site DID break. The mobile part. I was furious (you know, angry to the point I was snapping at people and had a face like thunder……I don’t tend to do the whole yelling thing).
After many (many many) hours of stress, I got everything sorted and finally submitted my final piece of coursework on Friday afternoon.
Have to say, it feels weird now. I guess when you’ve worked on something for so long, it feels odd when you no longer having to think about it*.
*Well, I didn’t HAVE to think about it but, after I handed my work in, I went home for some zzzz’s. It would have been a lovely snooze had I NOT dreamt that my site was totally broken
April 9th 2008
Have no fear, my blog is not broken. Today, the 9th of April is CSS Naked Day. It’s basically a day promoting the use of web standards and well formed code.
Go on, get rid of your CSS for one day only!
January 6th 2008
If you’re wondering what I’ve been upto the last few days (why I haven’t been on MSN and why I haven’t played Warcraft), the answer is that I’ve been coding a website.
The project is a golf website for uni. Unfortunatly, I’m not posting the link here because of confidentiality agreements and such- it’s only right the client sees it first. Have no fear, when the site goes live, I’ll link to it.
Anyway, whilst building the site, I was finding it difficult to position some elements, like placing text on top of images. Of course the alternative would be to simply make the text into an image however, that would be useless for users who are visually impaired (or using a screen reader for that matter).
How did I solve the problem? Well I finally got my head around relative and absolute positioning. It has made life so much easier and I’ve actually learnt something. Why the hell didn’t I try it before?
At the moment I’m just about to fix the tab menu at the top of the golf site. Following that, there are just one or two wee niggles to sort out 
bouncy Music : Stand Out by Tevin Campbell
