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December, 2008
Last Friday before Christmas: could it be a nightmare for Wedgwood?
The last Friday before Christmas is often a special day - but for all the wrong reasons.
When I was growing up at primary school, the Friday was 'toy day', a chance for children to bring in their own toys to play with. And it ended a truly special week when you took part in the Christmas play, watched several films played on a projector in the school hall, and enjoyed a Christmas meal. As a reporter, I've now come to remember it as the day when another of North Staffordshire's manufacturing companies goes to the wall.
CSS: or how to make your web pages look a bit better
It is one thing to create content on the internet, I've found, but quite another to make it look good.
It doesn't matter whether you work in web design, video, words or graphics, it's always the same.
Take the latest video cameras. It is possible now to use the Flip, for example, shoot some video, and with a quick connection to your PC you can get it straight on to the internet for everyone to see in YouTube.
Adding rounded corners to sidebars
I've been working on chapter eight of CSS: The Missing Manual, in particular the section on creating rounded corners.
The book demonstrates how to round corners on fixed-width boxes, but there are a few links for boxes which are less than fixed.
They are: www.vertextwerks.com/tests/sidebars
CSS: a styling quandry
I'm working up some static pages for work, and hit a snag with some of the styling.
The CSS that I'm working with creates some bespoke graphics for bullets for link lists, although it would appear the original designers have created a large template from which the relevant icon can be chosen from.
For some reason, the bullet which should appear is joined by other icons, which I want to get rid of. How do I solve it?
For those interested the page is available through the link
Internet media: publishing in the clouds?
The challenges facing the newspaper industry is as well documented as they are worrying for journalists working in them.
I’ve worked in the industry for a decade during which time a job in the media was widely seen as safe in the same way that booze and guns are defensive havens for investors - to buy stocks in, that is - during tough times.
How times change. In the past two or three years, there has been an increasing sense of panic about how newspapers and media groups are going to embrace the internet.
Testing the twitter module
I'm just trying to get the Twitter module
IBM: Trinity’s Midlands shake-up to save 30 per cent
News from Journalism.co.uk on the cutbacks at Trinity Mirror, which consultants IBM reckon will cut costs by up to 30 per cent. Worrying.
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