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The Fan - Design Notes

“The Fan” is blog/webzine providing news, opinion and commentary on
(predominantly UK-based) football teams, competitions, players and managers.

The site provides stories in 2 formats: quick 1 or 2 paragraph news
items (shorts) and longer (generally more authored) articles.

Designing for Google Adsense

This is not an article about how to make money from Google’s Adsense
progam, but to highlight some of the issues to bear in mind when
designing a site.

Making RSS pretty using XSL and CSS

In Ben Hammersley’s Making Your RSS Feed Look Pretty in a Browser he discusses using CSS to improve the display of RSS feeds in web browsers.

This article discusses using the alternative method of using XSL.

Removing padding from IE buttons

Internet Explorer automatically adds padding to buttons in HTML forms.
This space stretches according to the length of the button’s text.

HTML Star Hack

Original sources: css-discuss, CSS Hub

* html input { overflow: visible; }

The * ensures that this rule is only applied to Internet Explorer.

Interstitial Ads Update

I've updated the interstitial ad example to demonstrate the use of the technique. Clicking away from the demo page will cause the ad to appear.