Veerle's blog

Some of you might be interested in how the Flickr pictures are implemented on my blog. I use the HTML version of the Flickr badge. After completing the 5 steps you’ll get the code that you’ll need to implement in your site. As we like to keep things clean and W3C valid, we need to do some ‘house cleaning’ first. The styles that Flickr provide are of no use to me so I throw them out and we’ll control everything in our own (external) stylesheet…

I am working on a redesign for for several touristic regio sites here in Belgium. If you think of vacation, you want to see pictures and when I start designing stuff, I want my files to be as big as possible to have all my options open. That’s when e-mailing large files comes into play. You know, we have an Xserve and an FTP account for clients but not all of them are happy or technology minded to use it. You probably have been there too, some of them would even mail 100MB if it would be possible :o)

Since the topic of my last post was all about peeking, you might as well get a kick out of my interview on mcville. Just to lift a corner of the veil, you’ll get a glimpse in my daily routine, my favorite food, etc. Marko’s questions were fun to answer. Hope you enjoy the reading…. and still like me afterwards :-p

Oh, and while you are there check out the other interviews. Some are fun reading.

JavaScript has long been a second class citizen on Mac but thanks to the arrival of Mac OS X a lot has changed. It seems that the use of advanced JavaScript techniques on the web have been reborn thanks to web apps like 37 Signals Backpack for example.

I’m not a fan of using buzz words but hey we are talking about Web 2.0, AJAX or DHTML here ;-) It seems like ages ago but in 1997 I’ve won a Macromedia DHTML award for our company site Woohoo! ;-) But let’s get serious now and talk about the great work the web team at Apple is doing in making Safari a top notch browser. So what about JavaScript and DOM compatibility in WebKit?

The well respected digital magazine Design in Flight was cancelled a few weeks ago but now it is back in an online edition. With contributors like Eric Meyer, Jason Santa Maria, Jon Hicks, Mark Boulton, Keith Robinson, Molly Holzschlag, Eris Free and others this is one magazine that should end up in your bookmarks.

Back in April I have written an article about Color Theory: Choosing color combinations that you now can read online for free. So if you ever wondered about the wonderful world of colors maybe it is something for you. Give Design in Flight a try I think you’ll love it. Good luck Andy with your online adventure!