Its not very often that I get to actually design a website, instead of putting them together and making them go. Still it’s fun once in a while.
Elliott & Co Solicitors have two offices in The West Midlands in the UK in Birmingham and Wombourne on the edge of Wolverhampton.
The company has been established for [...]
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Elliott & Co Solicitors
CSS – note to self cursor: and nobr equivalent
Two quick css declarations I’m always having to look up:
CSS equivalent of <nobr>
{white-space:nowrap;}
CSS cursor – cross browser hand
{cursor: pointer;}
(see http://www.quirksmode.org/css/cursor.html for full css cursor reference)
UK Towns and Postcode Areas
The other day I needed a list of UK post towns matched up to postcode areas, which I found on wikipedia.
Anyway I have tidied it up and put it into two database tables postcode and town
You can download the SQL file here towns.zip
Hope it comes in useful.
When Google Maps go bad…
This week I noticed that a number of google maps had stopped working out of the blue, not dying in a spectacular javascript car crash, just a subdued failure and no map.
Looking in Firefox error console I see G_MAP_TYPE is not defined; – WTF? it was working…
Well looking into it, it is an easy fix. [...]
A bit like a House
I’m often wracking my brain to come up with good analogies to explain why we should develop things one way rather than another or to try and explain a development strategy to non technical people. Sometimes these people are Clients, sometimes Employers, often Designers (you get the picture).
But the question remains how best do you [...]