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A day in the park

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

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My portfolio website; build, design & responsive – in 2 days

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Last Thursday, Josh Hughes of Made By Fifty mentioned he was going to redesign his website.

I need a bit of a push, and being in the same frustrated mindset of never having time to build my own website I challenged him to a duel.

Not really a competition, just a challenge – call it a sportsmans’ bet. Basic rules; 4/ 5 pages, finish Sunday, launch Monday. Josh added hash tag of #fourdayfolio on twitter just for good measure if you want to read the progress.

Now, I must add that today is Wednesday

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Images can have background images with CSS – example

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Whilst working on a project at work in my day job, I needed the ability to have an “on” and “off” state for an image. Without wanting to write something lengthy and complicated in jQuery / JavaScript, I decided to explore what other options where available to me and came across a nifty little trick that never occorued to me before.

Did you know that the <img> element can have a background image?

Me neither. But why shouldn’t it?

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