permanent tangent
2005 February

elfin’s blog was never very descriptive. In fact it hails back to why I originally used elfin instead of my real name. But that is another story and I have already written up the origins of elfin and elfden.
So why choose permanent tangent? Well it is has long been in my sig as My [...]

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I’m still tweaking and adjusting the look of WordPress, but I am almost happy with the current look and feel. I upgraded to version 1.5, which has the facility to ‘theme’ , this is incredibly useful.
Tweaking WordPress takes time, but I have, with the help of the support forums, managed to amend the standard (more..) [...]

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When checking sites for accessibility I quite often want to check more than one page at a time. Until now thios hasn’t been a problem. I have the relevant page bookmarked: WDG validator and I just click the ‘Validate entire site’ checkmark.

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Back in November 2004 I became an admin of GAWDS. But at the time I wasn’t happy with my name appearing on the front page. I don’t go out looking for praise, and felt uncomfortable with my name appearing. I didn’t feel that my involvement, or my accessibility knowledge, was good enough to warrant such [...]

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It has come to attention that there are a few web designers out there who are of dubious character. I won’t name names but the following has happened to some one I know.
Having gone to a web designer and received their site, all was going well until the client had cause to look at the [...]

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This month features the theme of government related websites, and the general standard of entries is very good.

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