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Was it always this messy?

12th Sep
2007

9200oneone.pngToday I felt like someone had placed me in a rickety Website Wayback Time Machine. We recently took over the hosting of a website as the owner had begun to experience troubles with both his existing host and his website designer/support.

So, we moved the sites, cried at domain registrars etc, and then cried even more once we saw the site itself.

The site had a 1218 x 9200 px background image in order to create a header and left hand menu... and a black background. The actual HTML body was white. It was also set as the background of a table cell quite deep within the page. Picture me, gob smacked.

A quick bit of cropping and some tweaks to the HTML and it was fixed, purely so I wouldn't keep myself awake at night worrying about the bandwidth being pissed away by this 230k monstrosity.

However, as I smiled and began to forget about this black JPEG of doom, I realised I had to make the same changes to each and every single page individually.

Bring back the old days? Sod that.

Spread Firefox!

20th Sep
2004

Its perhaps a little late in posting this, as they’ve already hit their target in little over 5 days… but a new campaign was launched last week in order to promote the Firefox browser as it nears its official 1.0 release: SpreadFirefox.com

Spread Firefox

We at Leafish have been fans of Firefox when it was still in nappies and calling itself Phoenix… to those who have no idea what I’m on about: Firefox is an alternative web browser (alternative to Internet Explorer, usually). Its smaller, quicker, more standards-compliant and a lot nicer to use than every browser I’ve tried.

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