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“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 [...]

Posted at 9am on 02/05/08 | | Filed Under: Techy Musings read on

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. [...]

Posted at 1pm on 28/04/08 | | Filed Under: Techy Musings read on