Christmas is coming and there lies a great gift when I go home this year. Not only will I get out of this crazy heat and into the cold(who would have thought this would be appealing) but I get to see and hold my new little niece, Evie.

Evie is just a couple of months old and I am very much looking forward to seeing her. Needless to say there will be a few photographs and I nearly bought the Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens just for the occasion but unfortunately it is not to be this time . Lets hope it snows and not just the dreary old rain! It will be weird to be the Uncle that lives on the other end of the earth.

I have been neglecting this blog and not posting as much as I should so I am going to do some small snippets of information on web design and development, when I feel the need!

As the title so rightly says, it is very important to set good font and background colours when building a website. I think this is something that is so often neglected, mostly I think because we use images and don’t think about what happens if those images do not load or a user has opted to not display or download the images. What happens when you have a dark image on a white background and to provide good contrast to the dark image you set the font colour to white? Well you end up with something great when images are turned on but when they are off you end up with white text on a white background. Not good to anyone!

This is something we need to remedy and here is how.

Just yesterday we have a new addition to the house a tiny ball of fluff known as Ollivander. Ollivander is a 12 week old Maine Coon kitten, I’m sure that very soon I will have amassed a ton of photos of him but for now here are a few of him on his first day at home. 

I finally got around to fixing my rss feed today, so I thought I would post this quick snippet as it may be helpful to others. I use the standard RSS template that came with Expression Engine to create my feed the problem was that HTML and images were not showing up in the feed.

This is a simple little fix which requires the following change to the RSS Template:

In the description tag change {exp:xml_encode}{summary}{body}{/exp:xml_encode} to <![CDATA[{summary}{body}]]> this will enable your feed to have both HTML and images shown. Quick and easy for something that can be a pain in the arse.