jakob's web studio - XHTML

The new super-improved KogVet website is launched!

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:09:51 -0500

The new website for the student association at the Cognitive Science program here at Linköping University was launched two weeks ago but I haven't gotten around to posting about it until now. It's with a great feeling of accomplishment that we finally launched this site and we're thrilled at the thought of all its new features and what it will bring to the association and the students at the program. Continue reading in my portfolio...

Drupal for Solid Lifeforms

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:32:28 -0500

A beginner’s FAQ and guide to one of the most formidable content management systems on planet Earth

Some of you who frequent my site may have noticed that I work a lot with Drupal and now offer Drupal-related services such as customization and design. If you’re curious about what Drupal is and what it can do for you, how you can build a better site - a site that’s easier to maintain using a state of the art CMS, this guide is for you.

The problem with CSS and why designers think with tables

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:51:16 -0500

So called web standards-compliant coding using XHTML and CSS is being touted as the way of the future for web design and more and more people adopt the new methods and practices by the day. However CSS introduces a less than intuitive way to think about page layout which makes it hard to adopt and is also why web designers still use tables for layout. In this article I will cover some recent web design history, discuss why designers think with tables and why the CSS formatting model is not as intuitive as it should be.