Personal Site of Nils T. Devine

Ah the internet, what a wonderful thing. Here’s the owner’s manual for my mom’s old Singer (photo on Flickr).

3 columns, each of equal height regardless of the height of their contents, a header, a footer, and background colors of the columns not created using background images. Ingenious! The trick? Short version: the sidebar backgrounds are actually the borders of a wrapper. Clever negative margins pull everything together.

In response to Simon Wilson’s post on CSS Maintainability…
My old partner in crime over here at work, in the ebusiness team where we build web applications, once posted a little something on this subject here @ mezzoblue where he suggests pulling out all the structural CSS that forms the layout of the page […]

Publishers and authors forsake their place in the digital future by thwarting Google Print for Libraries. But that doesn’t mean that, like the music labels, they won’t spend the next few years blazing a noisy path of self-destruction.
Can anyone tell me what the hell the difference is between this (print.google.com) and Amazon’s “Search Inside” is? […]

The error message system that I have implimented at work is close, but not all the way there. I left out the header, just went with the list, and haven’t implimented any form of setting focus on the field (whether it be via javascript on an anchor or a label tag). The jaws user who […]