Adding glow can make things look special or stand out and it can be applied to lots of different things. Glow can be used in website designs, to make something look just a little more special than the average look. In this case I’m going to use glow and apply it to a navigation bar to make look a little bit more ‘Wow’ than the average navigation bar, using nicely coloured gradients and bit of CSS magic, I’m going to show you how to achieve a real nice navigation effect, which looks smooth, sleek and with a few little extras to make it stand out.

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There are many different website layouts that are designed differently, many website layouts choose to have one or more sidebar, but a problem that you many encounter is how can you get the sidebar to be same length as your content? This is a good question, because if your sidebar ends before your content then your website layout will look strange. But there are methods of being able to achieve a sidebar that is the same height as your content. In this Quick CSS segment, im going to show you how you can achieve this effect, it’s pretty simple and basic, but it’s good to know!

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It’s a question which I ask myself every year that the Eurovision song contest graces our screens, courtesy of the BBC. Every year it was on since I was about 8 or 9 my dad and I always watched it (Because the actual contest always falls on Saturday) and we will probably both end up watching it this year to. But we’d both admit that we watch it for a laugh, because I don’t think anyone in UK takes it seriously any more, and with good reason. Eurovision is no longer about talent, it’s simply political and cheesy.

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For the first time in History, As a webmaster I’ve managed to exceed my bandwidth limit causing James’ Blog to go down for a bit. I think from around 12:10 AM this morning I’d gone over my bandwidth usage and if you we’re unlucky enough to try and view the blog, you would have got a nice suspended message, saying that the hosting account of James’ Blog is suspended. It wasn’t exactly the best thing to wake up to this morning, but your now reading this message so you’ll be happy to now that my hosting account is unsuspended. Thanks to the great people at LRC-Gaming (Who hosts James’ Blog).

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In the past month or so I have wrote three articles/tutorials on various CSS3 elements that the developers of CSS3 have been working on, I’ve shown you some of my favourite new features such as the border-radius attribute and box-shadow, but I have had to stress on each article that only certain browsers will allow to use CSS3 modules and elements. The main two browsers that have supported CSS3 along it’s on going development path are Mozilla Firefox and Safari, both using there own frameworks the moz and webkit.

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