− http://www.sylvaticaweb.co.uk − News, tips, rants and raves from UK based web design company Sylvatica Web Design en-gb Sylvatica Web Design, 2007 Thu, 10 May 2007 21:00:26 GMT Thu, 10 May 2007 21:00:26 GMT webdesigner@sylvaticaweb.co.uk webmaster@sylvaticaweb.co.uk − http://www.sylvaticaweb.co.uk/images/rss/logo.gif http://www.sylvaticaweb.co.uk Sylvatica Web Design, South Wales, UK − − http://www.sylvaticaweb.co.uk − Sylvatica Web Design was asked by our Local Community Council to design a web site for local people, and we used the open-source Content Management System Joomla! to set up the site framework. If you want a web site that can be edited by non-techies, a Content Management System just might be the solution for you. Contact Sylvatica Web Design to discuss your requirements. We hope that the site will fill with content over the coming months, so if you live in our local area and would like to contribute an article or picture to the site, do E-mail us via the web site. − − http://www.sylvaticaweb.co.uk/web-design-gallery.shtml − Designing a resizeable 3 column layout using CSS is not for the faint hearted. There are plenty of designs out there, but most of them fall apart in one browser or another. Our new ecommerce store for Morrises Antiques actually hangs together quite well in IE 6. Almost. The design has a header, fixed width left and right columns and a centre column that resizes to fit the browser window. It works great in Firefox and Netscape, but the browsers from Microsoft (IE6 and IE7) have the usual idiosyncracies that we all know and love. IE6 failed to reposition all the layers of the design correctly when the browser window size is altered so a JavaScript is used to force reload on resize. At least IE7 redraws things Ok. But the footer doesn't sit where it should, at the foot of the columns. The boxes on the Home and Product pages are all table-less as well, and their contents flow as the browser is re-sized. Accessibility is no problem for the site - try increasing or reducing the text size using the control in your browser. The site uses PayPal for processing payments. − http://www.downourlane.co.uk − We have now taken over administration of the Down Our Lane web site, and are busy adding pages to the site. A major upgrade to the site is palnned to make it more Search Engine friendly. − − http://www.sylvaticaweb.co.uk/itec − In attempt to put together a small directory of web resources for my ITEC Anatomy and Physiology students, I've tacked on a few pages to my own web site. As web design as a business often equals starvation, I teach some groups of students in Pontypool and New Inn.