Steven Tew

We’ve all seen the “may contain nuts” warning on peanut packets and “may cause drowsiness” on sleeping pill boxes, but now it seems Britain’s department of label writers may also contain nuts. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve created a CSS multi tonal background using three layers of graduated colour - just to see if this effect has potential in website design.

It makes use of the .png media type so you’ll only be able to see the complete effect in browsers that support .png, for example Firefox and the latest versions of Opera.

You won’t see the complete effect in IE 6 or below, but with IE 7 well on its way now, which I believe will support .png, there’ll soon be little reason not to make use of .png files.

This technique layers three background images over the top of each other; a vertical graduation, a horizontal graduation, and a ‘light spot’.

I’ve designed it to degrade nicely so that current versions of IE will at least show the vertical graduation - the graduated horizontal overlay and the light spot in the bottom right hand corner will not display.

I hope you’ll agree this technique has potential. Feel free to trawl the code and adapt/improve the technique if you can (I think CSS3 proposes multiple background images in a single element!). Throw me a link back too because I’d love to see this implemented into a site.

A meaty “mazel tov!” to my younger brother Alan who finally plucked up some courage and proposed marriage last week to his long-suffering girlfriend Keri. Read the rest of this entry »

I picture myself near a stream.
Birds are softly chirping in the cool crisp mountain air.
No-one can bother me here. No one knows this secret place.
I am in total seclusion from that other place called ‘the world‘.
The soothing sound of a waterfall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.
The water is clear.
I can easily make out the face of the person whose head I am holding underwater… ;)

Ring-ding-ding-ding ding ding ding. Ring-ding-ding-ding ding ding ding. Ring-ding-ding-ding ding ding ding. Ring-ding-ding-ding ding Boink Boink!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Die froggy die!

But seriously, wouldn’t you just love to?

(This article will mean a lot more to anyone currently in the UK. If you’ve not heard of Crazy Frog count yourself very, very, vey lucky.)