Hail stones the size of golf balls, rivers flowing through the city, roofs falling in. This is not an exaggeration the weather in Melbourne turned nasty. One minute it was a nice day then turning to rain the next I thought my widows were going to be smashed, although I was lucky the hailstones I was getting were only the size of marbles.

Here are a couple of videos to show you the mental weather!

A few weeks ago I read a great post by Inayaili de León called Clients Aren’t Stupid. In this post Yaili challenges the perception of the web industry in the way that we think about clients. When I first read this post I agreed with what she was saying but it didn’t really register any further. In the last week or two however the topic of “stupid users” or “stupid clients” has resurfaced in a couple of different areas and it got me thinking further about the way we as and industry think.

No matter how many times I say it and no matter how many times I show people, I still get this <div style="clear:both;">. This drives me nuts! If it is not an empty div with a style attribute then it is clearfix classes on the floated items and not on the parent as they should be.

Let me say it loud and let me say it clear empty divs are meaningless and clearfix classes go on the parent element! Okay rant over, now if you are not sure how to self clear floats then here are a few easy ways to do it.

I am quite a purist when it comes to writing HTML and CSS or any code for that matter. Scepticism for any way of automating this process is normally quite high. Lately though I have discovered Zen coding which initially I put down as “another one of those crapy scripts”. After giving this a try I jumped on the bandwagon with gusto. Currently I use at least some of the features everyday and here is why…