Kimili is the personal site of Michael Bester
Based in Massachusetts, Michael builds websites & a few other things. He sometimes writes as well. Questions?
Flexible Scalable Background Image
20 May 09
When I get Photoshop comps from designers to build in HTML, CSS and Javascript, there are inevitably some elements of the designs which work well in the Ivory Tower of Photoshop, but present unique challenges when translating those elements into code a browser can work with. One such element on a project I recently completed featured a fixed size content area layered over background image that took up the entire browser window. Here’s how I implemented it.
Plugin Update: Kimili Twitter Timeline v1.2
17 Feb 09
Fresh off the press, here’s a new version of Kimili Twitter Timeline, the best way to put your Twitter feed on your Textpattern site. This version covers the requests people have had and adds a bit more flexibility in configuring how tweets are displayed on your site.
A Retort - IE8 Blacklist: Forcing Standards Rendering Opt-In
13 Feb 09
A blog post making the rounds in web development circles today argues that a new feature in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 (currently in pre-release) presents another major obstacle in the way of standards-based web development. That post is almost completely wrong.
