http://joelf.com Web design and development, Victoria BC Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I accidentally hit back on the mouse in Google's text input, and it put in the back button symbol. A pile of suggested search results came up. I'm guessing these were captures of people intending to leave google by typing in a site. Kind of neat. What's weird is that the ... http://joelf.com/back-button-symbol-in-search-results/ Henchman's helper got a lot of attention this last week when it was posted up on boingboing.net. It was just a simple idea to bring world domination to the internet, so evil henchmen could have their lair anywhere they are. People liked it, and it sort of took off! In other ... http://joelf.com/henchmans/ AskMefi has an interesting post about learning to become a developer that I have contributed to. I was particularly impressed with disillusioned's answer to the question, and I totally agree that learning to view HTML is key to being a web developer. You should be able to visualize a page ... http://joelf.com/learning-to-become-a-developer/ That was one crazy vacation! Check out the website. Since I've come back, I was asked to teach at Camosun College. That's right! You are looking at the screen output of Camosun's newest Photoshop, Illustrator, Interface Design and Graphic Design for the web instructor! A big thanks to Camosun for trusting ... http://joelf.com/im-back/ I'm on vacation! on a road trip with my friend Amos.   If you want to see what we've been up to, check out out vacation site, enter the wagon. See you in three weeks! http://joelf.com/vacation/ Over on Woork, Antonio writes about a technique that helps him write CSS. Basically: Write CSS so that it matches a generalized page layout. Start with the stuff on the top of the page (header and title bar) and work your way down. This is a pretty good method of laying ... http://joelf.com/top-down-approach-to-css-writing/ Congratulations go out to the small web team here at UVic on the launch of UVic.ca! For the last 7 months or so I have been heavily involved in the creation of the University of Victoria's website Redesign. This site is the culmination of months or research and many months of ... http://joelf.com/uvics-new-webpage/ Hey everyone, I have a bit of a puzzle. It's been bothering me for months. I have a menu that works perfectly in Firefox, for the most part it does everything I need it to do. Of course you know that it makes a huge mess in IE. Take a ... http://joelf.com/menu-css-puzzle/ The SMPTE test pattern was reworked last night. It's lost a couple lines of code and works in every browser known to man! Previously, I had each row sliced into bars equally, I had to shave off a tiny bit so IE could render the page, if i had them all ... http://joelf.com/test-pattern-reworked/ I've launched a new site, All You Could Eat! This is the best place to go to for reviews on all you can eat restaurants in Vancouver. My friends and I have always LOVED all you can eat, and we all hope to share this joy with everyone. We've got ... http://joelf.com/all-you-could-eat-launched/