collylogic.com - Simon Collison's weblog

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.

Web design book covers

I’ve found Designing With Web Standards, Web Standards Solutions and Defensive Design For The Web inspirational, essential and even enjoyable. Here’s why…

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Question Time: Visited Links

3rd July 2004

Around the table: Andy Clarke, Jason Santa Maria, Mike Davidson, D. Keith Robinson, Cameron Moll, Derek Featherstone and Simon Willison.

How should we represent the distinction between visited and unvisited links within our designs? Recently, a number of industry writers have sought to explode suggested guidelines and reassure us that it’s fine to experiment, so long as we consider the end user.

I consulted several established commentators in an attempt to consolidate these views, and reflect the broad range of methods in use today.

So, here we go. Let’s get deep down and dirty with pseudo classes, use of colour, visual ticks, readability, usability… and Jakob. Over to you chaps…

#227 | 03/07/04 | More >

Glastonbury 2004: Another classic

28th June 2004

So, that was Glastonbury 2004. Around 120,000 revellers enduring sleep deprevation, come-ups and downs, 1000s of performers and everything the weather could throw at us. Probably my favourite Glasto thus far, thanks in part to the volume of friends around me, two days of intense sunshine and some incredibly powerful music.

PJ Harvey

Here are your choices: check out the GlastonColly moblog for all the junk I texted live from the festival, or just read on for the CollyLogical musical overview…

#218 | 28/06/04 | More >

Three-match ban! What for Guv?

23rd June 2004

I’m absolutely appalled that Andy Clarke and Lee Hickman have colluded to give me a three-match ban from the Brit Blogger Squad.

Petty three-match ban for Colly

It isn’t as if I’ve done a Totti or a Frei. To my knowledge, my behaviour has been impeccable. 

#92 | 23/06/04 | More >

Atop the Blogger’s League

18th June 2004

Bloggers League table

Enjoy the moment they say. Rutter, Scrivens, Hickman, Malarkey and Tebbutt are all lagging behind in the Euro 2004 Fantasy Football Blogger’s League. We’re only mid-way through Matchday 2, but it’s unlikely that my good run will continue, so I decided to celebrate topping the table. 

#85 | 18/06/04 | More >

Send form details to email with PHP

17th June 2004

I used to hate forms. Especially web forms. It used to be a panic if I needed to create a form outside of the content management system. Finally, some time back, I set about creating a very simple, re-usable and flexible PHP form handler that would take the sting out of the tail.

Here it is, stripped down to a few simple lines that will take the user’s details and send them to a specified email account - nicely formatted, guaranteed delivery in an instant - and finally show them a thank you page.

#82 | 17/06/04 | More >

The Monthly Style Magazine - R.I.P

14th June 2004

The state of magazine publishing in the UK is in serious limbo. People simply do not need to pay four quid a month to find out what’s going on - not now we have the web at our fingertips.

magazine covers

In the past month, one of our major clients, Swinstead Publishing, went out of business. It was a huge shock to all concerned, particularly the readers of Jockey Slut and Sleaze. Recently former style-bible The Face went the same way, and many more look like joining them in the great trash bin in the sky. Is it the end of the magazine era? 

#79 | 14/06/04 | More >

Don’t Cry - They’re Only Onions…

14th June 2004

I feel compelled to help raise collective spirits after last night’s mugging at the hands of the French team. Last night we sat there shell-shocked after the Gallic ones had pulled two goals out of nothing in the final three minutes of the game.

England goal

So, a quick “well done” to England for some staunch defending, a fantastic goal from Lampard, and the wonderful fearless excursions of whipper-snapper Rooney…

#75 | 14/06/04 | More >

Euro 2004: A Nation Expects…

9th June 2004

Apologies to all readers across the pond. I’m going to write about football (soccer - the one without padding). Euro 2004 begins on the 12th June, and I’m as excited as a squirrel during nut-fall. Why am I so excited this time around? Well, England could actually win…

#73 | 09/06/04 | More >

Photo Sets using Gallery Script 1.9

6th June 2004

Moon, Iceland 1998

I’ve finally uploaded the first CollyLogical photo sets, featuring selected images from my first two trips to Iceland. The galleries are built using some top-notch PHP source called Gallery Script which is very intuitive and completely free. 

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