I’m in Prague this week meeting colleagues, doing some training, eating, drinking and generally taking in the atmosphere. It’s a fantastic city to visit, with great architecture and nice people. I’m enjoying it very much.

But just when I thought things couldn’t get better, this morning I received a text from Paul saying that the NGS site that we’d recently contributed to with our summer exhibitions microsites had won the ASVA award they were short listed for. Hoorah! My first web award, and hopefully not my last because it’s a great feeling!

Congrats to everyone involved!

Wow! I recently worked on a project for the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and today I’ve been told that the site has been short listed from over 400 of Scotland’s premier visitor attractions for the 2006 Best Website Award – Large Category by the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions (ASVA).

Our NGS Summer Exhibitions site was designed to reflect the National Galleries commitment to making world-class art available to all. Designed by Paul Evans of ts.com. and coded by myself, the site meets the highest standards for user accessibility and has full compliancy with W3C guidelines.

Glasgow Museums, winner of the award in 2004 and 2005, and The Lighthouse are also on the shortlist. The award will be presented at a Gala Dinner being held on Tuesday 7th November at the Famous Grouse.

Fingers crossed, eh? Wish us luck.

I stumbled into a problem a few months back where my print style sheets were being ignored by Firefox (shock! horror!).

After a bit of investigation it seemed that print was generally a weak point for Firefox, so I chalked up my problem as one of Firefox’s rare failings.

But now, thanks to a tip off in [css-d], I’ve discovered the real reason behind the problem, namely the title attribute in the <link /> tag. This attribute doesn’t have ’side effects’ when used in other elements, but in <link /> tags for external style sheets it appears too when really it is  just handled differently.

It’s all to do with persistent, preferred and alternate stylesheets. To learn why it’s handled differently, and why the result varies from browser to browser, please read: “Correctly Using Titles With External Stylesheets“

I’ve been tracking down information about CSS support in email clients and managed to rake together a handful of really useful links. Thought I’d share…

• HTML Email and Using Style
• A Guide to CSS Support in Email
• Optimizing CSS presentation in HTML emails
• How to Code HTML Email Newsletters
• CSS and Email, Kissing in a Tree

If you know of any others, please let me know and I’ll add them to the list.

If you’ve ever had any doubt about the versatility of CSS then Stu Nicholls’ The CSS Playground will help to put your mind straight. His site is well worth a visit for some great CSS animations and for a look at the fun side of what CSS is capable of.

The latest from Stu, shows just how good his insight into CSS actually is, and it’s FUN!

CSS Puzzle – Maze