Manchester web designer Phil Thompson
Eastenders, the popular British soap, sounds a little like Front-enders… doesn’t it? Wouldn’t it be funny if all the characters of Eastenders where front-end web developers? That’s how my little random side project, FrontEnders started life.
In August 2007, I won the contract to create the CSS for a new website, Leave it out. The CSS was subcontracted to me by the main developer (who also subcontracted the design to an independent web designer.)
I make my living as a Front-end Web Developer, which means I spend quite a bit of time making websites look as good in Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) as they do in other browsers. It isn’t rocket science and I’ve honed my technique to make bug fixing as quick and easy as possible.
This week saw the launch of the internet’s newest web browser, Google Chrome and what kind of frontend developer would I be if I didn’t give it a quick review?
It is beyond silly to repeatedly copy and paste the same HTML into the top and bottom of every HTML file that you create. That’s why god invented include() but, the humble header/footer HTML include file needs to be extended slightly – that is, unless you want all your pages to have the same title/meta description/CSS files etc.
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