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.

In 1992, Radiohead released their first single; Creep. The song became very popular and they had to play it at every gig to satisfy their fans, and it wasn’t long before the band became sick of their creation. They brought out new songs, but people just wanted to listen to the old ones, and they will forever be remembered as the band that wrote Creep.
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I’ve just been interviewed for Techettes, a site for tech savvy girls.

You can see my interview here http://techettes.com/2009/07/interview-with-tomorrows-web-speaker-anna-debenham/

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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Chessbrook is the second school I have worked with.  It was a really great project to work on because it was quite challenging.  The school is an education centre for students who have not been able to cope in mainstream education.

I really like what Chessbrook are doing, and they were perfect clients to work with.  At the end of the project, I did usability testing with the students to get their feedback on the website.

This week I finally finished writing a contract I am happy with giving to clients.  I thought it might be useful to give you an overview of what is in it, as I know there are a lot of people who still don’t use them.  I don’t think it’s until you’ve been burnt that you truly appreciate how useful they are.

I used Andy Clarke’s article in 24ways as a guide. I strongly recommend you take a look first, I think he sets the right tone in his (more colloquial than legal fluff).

I’m not going to give you an exact replication of what it contains before I check it over with a lawyer. I also think it’s important to write it yourself so that you know and understand it inside out, but here are a few things you really should mention in it.

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