Out of the Box CSS Layout

A List Apart author Alan Pearce recently shared his development work to solve one of the most common problems in CSS layout. Some of us web standards designers would remember this being called the “holy grail”.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Alan has finally found the grail and it uses little to no hacks whatsoever to successfully achieve equal height column bliss.

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Categories or Tag Clouds

Let’s talk about something of old and something anew. Clearly, usage of categories are really old. We categorize related information into their appropriate sections. For instance, the location map could be categorized into the Contact Us page.

I believe due to the existence of blogs, there was a need for a more complex and detail way of sorting information. When you write about the company, is it the history? is the vision? or is it the team of the company?

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Air Asia Vista Gadget

Or the leading Malaysia budget airline company calls it; AAVG. Sounds like the AVG antivirus, doesn’t it?

Not long after the release of Microsoft Vista, Air Asia made its own wave of headlines along side Microsoft promoting its new customer oriented feature called the “gadget”. I only found out about this feature via the paper media today and had several thoughts come to my mind.

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Why Will I Not Use Windows Vista?

The ‘Wow’ starts now. Or so it seems.

Recently Microsoft launched its much awaited and anticipated operating system, Windows Vista. It has been roughly 5 years since the release of Windows XP by the Bill Gates company. Vista was and has been the most talked about operating system (other than Mac OS X) in the market.

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