“RSS Awareness Day” Awareness Day
Yesterday, during my daily read of Dave Winer’s own RSS feed, I discovered that it was RSS Awareness Day. I really wanted to blog it there and then but hadn’t the time because, ironically, I was working hard at the coalface, hacking away (I like this metaphor) at a client’s RSS-driven microsite.
So in lieu I now declare today “RSS Awareness Day” Awareness Day, because I’m very aware that yesterday was RSS [...]
CSS: Using an image as a form submit button
Most of the sites I develop involve a form of some sort, and usually the designers style the forms with custom buttons.
A simple way to deal with this is to use <input type="image" ... /> which gives the desired appearance and functionality with no fuss.
This is fine for method="post" forms where the information sent to the server isn’t visible to the user. When using a method="get" form, though, there’s an unsightly side effect of using the image input type. [...]