http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:58:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I get a lot of email. I currently have 9 different email accounts spread across work and personal stuff, the important email all is IMAP (on my own server) with list mail being spread across gmail accounts and some POP accounts on my server. Not only do I get a ... http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2008/03/23/dear-lazyweb-what-should-i-do-with-all-this-email/ Back in November I wrote the following in an email to a mailing list as part of a discussion about The Web Standards Project, reading some of the fallout on the web over the last few days reminded me of that discussion, which seems more relevant now than before, "When WaSP ... http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2008/01/26/377/ By now most of you will probably have read the article posted today on A List Apart, Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8. In a nutshell, the new http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" instruction will let you tell Internet Explorer to render the page in the manner of a particular IE version. If ... http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2008/01/22/ie8-and-the-future-of-the-web/ I managed to stick the course and completed my Project 365 last year. While taking a photo every day sometimes seemed like a chore, I took some photos that I really love over the course of the year. Photos that I never would have taken had I not had to ... http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2008/01/19/i-need-a-new-photo-project/ Drew McLellan and I presented our first Beginners CSS Course last week here in Maidenhead. We really enjoyed the day and, from the feedback received so far, our delegates did too. We had a mix of attendees - from those who had done very little HTML to those who were ... http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2007/11/05/what-would-you-want-in-an-advanced-css-course/ I started edgeofmyseat.com in September 2001, which makes it a pretty established company at this point. So it's really exciting that Drew McLellan will be joining the company in September. We're looking forward to working together full time as Drew has worked on a freelance basis for edgeofmyseat.com already, and ... http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2007/08/18/css-training-and-changes-at-edgeofmyseatcom/ The 2nd edition of my book 'The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks' has now been released and is available from Sitepoint. This updated version covers Internet Explorer 7 and newer techniques made possible by widespread use of standards compliant browsers – while always bearing in mind how to ... http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2007/08/02/the-css-anthology-101-essential-tips-tricks-hacks-2nd-edition/ I'm not a natural runner. I'm reasonably fit given that I spend most of the day sat in my chair, mainly due to the fact I'll always walk rather than drive if it is possible, but I'm one of my gym's best members - pay every month and rarely use ... http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2007/07/29/geek-running/ On Thursday and Friday of last week I attended the @media2007 Europe conference in London. I took a ridiculous amount of notes (using OmniOutliner which I am loving for taking meeting notes right now) but will try and condense those into a brief round-up of the sessions I attended. There ... http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2007/06/10/media2007/ Deciding that I wanted to add a listing of the articles that I have written led to a rainy-weekend redesign of the templates and a reshuffle of the content on this site. I don't consider myself a designer, and there are things I would like to add if I ... http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2007/05/13/new-design/