As a budding ‘surfer’ (back in the days when surfing the web still seemed mysterious and vaguely appropriate), I never took to Internet Explorer. I think it was because every time I opened a link in a new window it always managed to position it somewhere annoying on the monitor. Then again, maybe I just preferred the Netscape Communicator loading button. Either way, from the beginning I was a fan of using programs that didn’t come with Windows, and it’s a trend that I’ve followed to this very day. Continue reading

I was recommended this book by a friend a couple of months ago and what can I say, it’s definitely worth a read! The book in a sentence is about the advantages of web standards and how it improves websites.

It looks at how you can use XHTML and CSS to implement a web standard compliant web site and what the advantages of this are. Continue reading