We are always happy to support our local community, whether it’s attending community training or lecturing at local schools and universities. This year we are pleased to announce that we are involved in the Southampton Schools Website Challenge 2008. Renaud Clarke, Director of Atelier Studios, will be on the panel of judges, alongside representatives from international, national and local businesses.

The Challenge has asked Renaud to talk at the Awards, to give an insight into his career and how the business started and grew to become Southampton’s  most successful independent digital agency.

To find out more about the Southampton Schools Challenge please contact Robin J Smith, Education Project Manager www.solentskillquest.co.uk

As another tight season is about to commence Atelier Studios starts the 2008 Fantasy F1 league. Renaud Clarke, group director of fantasy leagues at Atelier says “being in control of the office firewall I can track and monitor key players, then at crucial moments i am then able to gain advantage by blocking the F1 website”

Renaud has picked:

• Driver 1 A. Davidson
• Driver 2 A. Sutil
• Chassis Renault F1
• Engine Honda (SA)

A long-standing bug in Internet Explorer is the gaps it likes to insert between list items that contain block level elements, if there is any whitespace between the list items in the markup. You have probably seen it in action more times than you want to.

the release version of IE 7 still suffers from it

This bug was thought to have been fixed in IE 7 RC 1, and perhaps it was. That doesn’t really matter since the release version of IE 7 still suffers from it in certain circumstances. Just in case you’re looking for something that will fix this problem in both IE 6 and IE 7, I wanted to share this piece of knowledge. I originally thought this would soon be obsolete, but unfortunately that does not seem to be the case.

There are several different ways to skin this cat, but I found this the simplest to implement.

Assigning a width to the links. Like this:

li {
width:200px;
padding:0px;
margin:0px;}

*If you do this make sure to have a set width on your surrounding element.

I’ve found that this works in both IE 6 & IE.

Hello Everyone,

We hope you had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. We are really looking forward to working with you over the next 12 months.

January is the perfect time for a fresh, clean start to the year and what better way to get your client onto your website than by updating your content and changing your website images. As last year was so successful we are offering the same great discount of a massive 40% off all website updates in January. If you require any design work to be done on your website, why not book in some time with our designers.

Our Designers can:

• Install blogs (fantastic for search engine optimisation)
• Update website Images (completely freshen up a website by just changing your images)
• Update website content
• Install any forums or bulletin boards
• Update your META Tags, and optimise your website for search engines. (these should be reviewed and updated every year) Create an email marketing campaign to send to your clients (these really work, hey you’re reading it aren’t you?)
• Brochures, business cards, display stands, posters, logos and any offline artwork

For any January design work please ring on 02380 227117.

The web is constantly evolving. New and innovative websites are being created every day, pushing the boundaries of HTML in every direction. HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers.

To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics.

Work on HTML 5, which commenced in 2004, is currently being carried out in a joint effort between the W3C HTML WG and the WHATWG. Many key players are participating in the W3C effort including representatives from the four major browser vendors: Apple, Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft; and a range of other organisations and individuals with many diverse interests and expertise.