Jake Rayson's Blog - Web design

Problem with Notepad++

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:28:10 +0100

Well, to be more precise, this is probably my problem with Notepad++, the venerable open source Windows text editor.

I can’t open HTML files. As a web designer &...

Blog, blog & away!

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:29:43 +0100

I spent the weekend down at The Village, and finally I have broadband! Alas this post is not from The Cottage but from The Ministry, as I have been too busy mowing the lawn and drying my washing to do anything computer-related! Now all I need is some work...

Teacamp

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:32:09 +0100

I went along to Teacamp today, a loose gathering of interested/ing folk who work with the UK government and online technologies (and a barcamp spin-off)...

One True Piefecta

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:52:08 +0100

Meanwhile, back at The Ministry…

For Operation Cleanup on the intranet, I needed a 3 column CSS layout, and I opted for OpenOffice.org Calc, though I wasn’t relishing...

Mark my words

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:49:40 +0100

A few weeks ago, I moved the majority of my worldly belongings to the Pink Cottage by the sea in The Village. For some reason I have been labelled The Writer (I might have mentioned this blog). Village life didn’t start off very smoothly though: ...

Simplicity, kludges & thatll do

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:46:53 +0100

A few years ago, I read an excellent A List Apart article called The Dao of Web Design. The author, John Allsopp, called for a flexible and simplified appr...

PortableApps.com

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:55:05 +0100

Of late I have been working for The Ministry, a top-secret department located in the heart of our country’s great government. The secrecy and security extends to their locked-down IT policy, as I’ve A List Apart, a perennial favourite site for web design and building, has apparently been cyberjacked! How irritating, as I was going to reference a very nifty article about Mountain Top Corners (hard edged white p...

1 or l?

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:04:22 +0100

Meanwhile, back at The Ministry of Secrets, I had an interesting discussion with a co-worker about shortcuts. It arose from the fact that I’m not allowed to install fonts, and the default monospace font is