Quick Tip: Get rid of link borders in IE

A click button in IE. The way IE highlights “focus”-ed links can really wreck your design.

Please, don’t take this post as typical, angry developer IE-bashing. I don’t hate IE for the sake of it, I hate it because it’s horrible*.

*Does not apply to the new Javascript engine of IE9 which is lightening fast!!!

Give a DIV a Transparent Background Color

DIV with a transparent background color The age old question – how can I make my DIV a transparent background color?

So I’ve fielded two questions in the past week on WebDeveloper.com regarding this topic, so I figured I’d make a post about it.

I don’t know who exactly came up with this technique, and, honestly, I think I came up with this method myself when I was designing the first Horizon Conference website. You’ll notice the content area is transparent but the content isn’t! Here’s how to do it.

Disable Skype number highlighting with Javascript

Skype® messing up your style? Installing skype automatically highlights all recognizable phone numbers found on web pages in sometimes unfortunate ways

As a developer, you’d think I’d keep on top of the latest of internet technologies…so I installed Skype® for the first time about a week and a half ago – a useful little tool for keeping in touch with co-workers and clients, I might add – but also a huge pain in my, and any designer’s, ass.

Quite often on web pages, phone numbers are used as aspects of the design, in addition to providing useful contact information…apparently the people at Skype® were never aware of this. The title image of this post was taken from a page I was coding out for a company I contract with, and you can see how Skype® screwed with the nice placement, color, and typography of the number in the design and made it disgusting.

Redesign for Horizon 2011

Horizon Conference Redesign Horizon Conference has been re-designed for it’s 2011 meeting

Nobody would mess with Brave New World or Les Miserables. Same goes for The Catcher in the Rye and Catch-22…..well, maybe. That doesn’t mean, however. that all classics are better.

EMSCC 2011 Launch

It looks like the clean design and high functionality that Jaks provides is starting to get noticed. We’re very please to have launched the website for the EMSCC 2011 on October 7^th. When I’m not designing, I tend to be coding, and when I’m not coding, I’m usually designing….all this leaves very little time to blog about launching fantastic websites like EMSCC.