A little neat trick that I’ve now used a few times at work and for other sites I develop is to always make the footer of the site at the bottom. Easy enough you may think at first, but it must stick to the bottom of the browser window, no matter what size the window is re-sized to, or how much or how little content the page has.

A List Apart has a great tutorial on how to do this, and although a little lengthy, their version 3 example page is good enough to use as a basis for your page.

The methods behind this are simple enough after you’ve studied the code for a few moments. First of all, make sure you contain all of your page in… (including the header/footer, etc)

<div id="container">

Secondly, a very important part of the CSS they provide is …

html, body {
    height: 100%;
}

Which forces the height to be 100% of both the HTML and Body tags - note that it must be both! I’ve spent far too long in the past trying to work out why my page wasn’t working when I missed the fact the height 100% was applied to the HTML as well as the Body tag.

From there on, the source code on their page should be easy enough to follow as a guideline. I use their Example 3 since its relatively simple and doesn’t include any Javascript. Although it doesn’t support all browsers, it does support the majority (Firefox, IE’s), and that’s good enough for me

Want to create your own lil’ icon next to the address bar on your browser window for your own site? Check out www.favicon.cc for an easy way of creating/uploading your own.

Just had to do this on another site, so thought I may as well post on how I did it! Neat

I haven’t posted anything on this blog in a very long time with anything regarding my Mini, but I think that should change - after all this blog is a blog about things I like!

So, for those of you who don’t know, I own a 1983 Mini City E,  I’ve owned her for about 3 years and her name is… “The Mig”. However, almost 2 of those years has been spent in my garage in a state of re-build. She was a 998cc rally replica before I stripped her to bare shell and began the rebuild process. I’m converting her into a screaming race replica, Mini Miglia look-a-like which should be pretty nippy!

Here’s what she looks like at the moment…

For now though, I’m concentrating on getting her back on the road with a standard-ish 1275cc 8 valve A+ Mini engine, but with the brakes, suspension & general rest-of-car to near race-spec.

Over this weekend I’ve just done the job of removing my rear valance. I’ve been to a lot of Mini Miglia race meetings and I have a lot of photos of Mini Mig’s, and I notice almost all of them have their rear valance removed - perhaps for even less weight, or perhaps because the rear valance acts as a giant air-scoop which would slow down the car. Regardless of the reasons, mine is now gone! … But I did find a pretty large hole of rust after removing it. Bad times!

Not to worry too much - I have my own Mig welder and I’ve been saying to myself for months now that I will learn how to weld. I have metal, gas and a mask. And I have a hole to weld… watch this space!