At Barcamp London 7, I gave a presentation on some CSS tricks I learnt while building Scrunchup.  Read the rest of this entry »

Whenever I am asked what I do by someone who doesn’t work in my industry, I find it quite hard to give them a decent response. I usually just tell them I’m a website designer, even though that’s not really accurate and I’m more confident working with code than on a design.

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I’ve been rebuilding my site in HTML5 as a practice run for future projects to see what problems I come across.  When I tested my site in IE, I noticed all the elements that the browser didn’t recognise were not styled with the CSS.  After a little bit of searching, I came across this fix by Remy that resolved the issues I was having.  I just thought I’d share it with you in case you came across the same problem when making the transition to HTML5.

If you run an online banking service, surely the most important feature on the site should be security.  However, we all know that your data is only as secure as the password you use to protect it.  This is why I find it so shocking that Natwest online banking has such a strange policy on what your password can and can’t contain.

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