Art On The Hill is a new arts trail for Windmill Hill and Victoria Park in Bristol. Despite the relatively small area, we’ve got over 70 artists exhibiting.

I’ve been working on the website - www.artonthehill.org.uk - as well as the publicity material (logo/flyers/posters). I’m also going to be exhibiting some work - mostly paintings of the local area, but some other odd stuff too.

The Trainline website really is poorly designed. There’s something strange with their use of cookies and once I managed to be logged in as two different people at the same time, but the thing that I find exasperating is the fact that you *have* to select a minute time. Most often you want to get a selection of trains around a certain hour and choose the fastest, or the one with the fewest changes. So you select your hour from the drop down and click the button to search. Not so fast. You *must* select a minutes value from the minutes drop down. Would it have hurt to make the default value of the minutes drop down ‘00′?

Argh!! When I’m putting a website together, I hand-code (using the indispensable TextMate) on a Mac and I test the site in Safari, Firefox, Opera, Camino and Mozilla. Once everything is in place, I boot up my PC and test in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. Firefox and Opera on the PC rarely give any grief, but normally there’s something that needs to be tweaked for Internet Explorer. Recently, I had the unexpected epiphany of a site looking as intended first time, but this was not the case this time.

In a two-column page, one column was appearing under the other. Normally this would probably be a problem with the way that the columns are floated but after considerable amount of head scratching, the culprit was found: italics.

A <p> element full of text should fit the parent element but for some reason, in Internet Explorer, if that text is italicised then it will render it slightly wider than the parent element, which in my case broke the two-column layout.

A technical description of the bug can be found here.

I’ve finally put up my portfolio. It’s just a little taster of the work I’ve done, as a lot of the stuff that I’ve worked on has been either client confidential or very dry corporate database applications, but I can add to it as time goes on.

This is my entry for the BBC Reboot competition.