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Rob Swan

Rob Swan is a LAMP developer who runs Open Door Internet Limited, a web development and training agency based in the South West of England that specialises in providing free web design training and mentoring for the long term unemployed. Rob still drinks too much coffee.

Entries by Rob Swan

  • Conflicting Absolute Positions

    Issue 241 · 

    All right, class. Using CSS, produce a liquid layout that contains a fixed-width, scrolling side panel and a flexible, scrolling main panel. Okay, now do it without JavaScript. By chucking an assumption about how CSS works in browsers, Rob Swan provides the way and means.

  • In Defense of Difficult Clients

    Issue 227 · 

    Challenging clients: avoidable pain or necessary stepping stone to enlightenment? Rob Swan considers the benefits of un-perfect clients.

  • Sliced and Diced Sandbags

    Issue 222 · 

    Wouldn't it be great if there were a way to get text to flow around an irregularly shaped image? Wouldn't it be even better if we could automate the process? Have no fear: Rob Swan is here to show us the way.

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