Esther Dyer specialises in creating art to suit your house, office, unit or townhouse. Her new work has now been added to her site.
China Matching Service
Everyone breaks a plate by accident occasionally and when it’s one from your favourite dinner service it can be hard to replace. China Matching Service, whose new site has just been completed by Sibagraphics can locate your requirements. This useful service will also buy china from you.
More desktop wallpaper
A couple more photos taken during a trip to Stanthorpe and Girraween National Park recently have been converted into desktop wallpaper for download.
New site for Paul McCloud
Paul McCloud’s new site offers downloads of songs and video for fans of country, gospel and easy listening music. The site highlights the use of <div>s and css to produce nested boxes with rounded corners which automatically adjust to text length.
Mana Puppets Site Redesign
Enjoy the site of Mana Puppets, prominent producers of Australian and International puppet shows for children’s entertainment and education. The site has been upgraded to XHTML 1.0 with CSS layout.
Splash pages
Concise well-written article entitled “Sink the Splash Pages” describing why splash pages with no textual and or news content are a no no for search engine and visitor friendliness.
Latest CSS styling
Another place for great CSS styling and optimisation tips at Real World Style. This site also has useful 2 and 3 column CSS styling tutorials.
Accessibility standards
The W3 people provide a handy checklist for web accessibility … although many web development businesses do not consider standards and accessibility important, Sibagraphics strives to employ accessibility methods and means so that everyone can enjoy and benefit from client site information.
UTF-8 encoding
Great article on character encoding which has a fair explanation of the uses of utf and other encoding for internationalisation. For php users, there are ways round the limitations of php’s 256 character set.
Font sizing
As well as through the font checking utilities on this site, the perennial problem of font sizing methods acceptable for all browsers is discussed by Owen Briggs at his site. He supplies some handy cross-browser comparison screen shots.
Owen leans towards using percentages due to their compatability. I’ve recently started setting html {font-size:100%} then body {font-size:90%} and em units throughout the rest of the style sheet. Wondering whether it may be best to go back to using percentages only as it doesn’t seem to make much difference as long as the base font is set at 100%.