Fran's Blog » Uncategorized http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com A blog of significant nothingness Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:29:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My reborn site http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2010/04/07/my-reborn-site/ http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2010/04/07/my-reborn-site/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:02:47 +0000 Francis http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/?p=417 Well this weekend I spent a day rewriting my website. Seems a little brash for something which gets minimal visits, especially when I really can’t design well. But over the years it has been a canvas to just build something. Although it has looked the same since 2002 it has been re-written numerous times. from using tables, inline PHP to full CSS and OO PHP. This time round I decided to do it differently.

As a .net developer, PHP seemed a little like I really should actually use .net for my site. I used that and the new HTML 5 and CSS3. If this makes sense to you, no worries. These are the latest technologies. Some browsers don’t even support them yet. Basically, HTML and CSS3 has moved leaps and bounds from being a bit tricky to add design ideas like drop shadows and rounded corners, even forms are changing. And the best part is, if you are using an older browser, it should display nicely, just without a few of the nice bits.

In conclusion, I love HTML 5 and CSS3, they’re like the technologies that developers have been waiting for and the internet now seems bright and ready for some really impressive designs (web designer pending of course).

]]> http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2010/04/07/my-reborn-site/feed/ 1 Funny blogs and sites – Failblog http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2010/03/16/funny-blogs-and-sites-failblog/ http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2010/03/16/funny-blogs-and-sites-failblog/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:00:28 +0000 Francis http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/?p=411 In a whole list of blogs I subscribe to in Google Reader (my chosen RSS feed reader) I have a select cut of comedy blogs. XKCD, Doghouse, There I fixed it and Failblog, to name but a few. Fail blog is always the one which makes me laugh out loud. Especially the toys which are either faulty, or someone just didn’t check it before it went out there. Here is a great example, you see what it is MEANT to do at the start. Subscribe now for some of the funny stuff.

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