This is the celebrated journal of Mr. Simon Collison A.K.A Colly

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Category: HTML & CSS

No public hangings today, folks

5th November 2004

Further to the previous post, I’m pleased to announce that the battle over the plagiarism of CollyLogic‘s XHTML and CSS has been successfully resolved. So, I feel it’s best not to publicly “out” those responsible, although I have selected a few choice quotes from the email conversations…

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A quandary about web plagiarism

3rd November 2004

I want your advice here. I want to know what you might do in my situation. In a nutshell, CollyLogic has been ripped-off pretty blatantly by a lazy designer who also recently ripped off another website. I discovered this almost two months ago, and - rather than instantly “out” this disgrace and contact the client - I decided to establish dialogue with the designer and invite him to make some changes. This is because I am a gentleman…

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Hooray for Stylegala’s smallest site

1st September 2004

Trumpet-blowing time, folks. Huge thanks to the nice people at Stylegala for adding our Agenzia company site to their gallery.

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Question Time: Using H Tags

27th July 2004

Around the table: Richard Rutter, Jason Santa Maria, Andy Budd, Andy Clarke, Mike Davidson, D. Keith Robinson, Jon Hicks and Paul Scrivens.

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Ticked-off visited links Reloaded

21st July 2004

When CollyLogic launched, I was incredibly surprised by the response to the Ticked-Off Links I created for the sidebar. I should say a massive thank you to the many, many folks who linked to the original tutorial detailing two methods of implementation.

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Prevent dynamic collapsing margins

15th July 2004

I’m aware of margin collapsing with CSS. It’s a pain. However, I’ve had a slightly different issue with margins over at IE 6 (PC). Bizarrely, the margins are showing correctly spaced, right up until the user slowly mouses over them.

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Call yourself a web developer?

12th July 2004

Let’s take a close look at a popular blog and it’s sins. I won’t hold back here. Sketchy image-replacement, an overdose of div tags, extraneous class declarations, improper use of phrase elements, flickering roll-overs, barely semantic.

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Inspired by red, orange and yellow

8th July 2004

What makes these three books so valuable to anyone concerned with building websites? Much has been written about all three, and each has gained many plaudits from professional and amateur designers alike.

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