Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and his digital playground.

Opera is now out of beta and has released a final version of 9.5. It comes with many features including the following:

• excellent support for current standards — (X)HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS 2.1, SVG 1.1
• partial implementations of new emerging standards — CSS 3, HTML 5, and ARIA

Download a free copy of Opera 9.5

As you know Internet Explorer does not support PNG transparency and there are many javascripts out there to fix this problem. Many of them work really well but seems to require more effort and at time difficult to implement especially when dealing with developing on a CMS.  read more »

HTML Emails can be a nightmare when there are so many different email services, and all seems to operate and render emails quite differently from each other.

Here is an article that should help ease the process

Read the Article - HTML Emails - Taming the Beast

When working with CSS, cross browser compatibility is also an issue. Mostly on Internet Explorer web browsers. A way many web designers/developers get around this problem is by targeting certain IE with it's own CSS stylesheet to fix styling issues since each version renders CSS differently. This method is by using an IE conditional comments placed in the HTML < Head > tag.  read more »

CrossBrowserTesting.com is a new service designed to let website designers see what their website looks like in different browsers and in different operating systems. It is based on virtual server technology which allows us to keep costs low and pass the savings on to you.
You can check cross-browser compatibility under many different configurations so that you can feel comfortable that your site looks and works the way it should. Check out the demo.

Visit: CrossBrowserTesting.com

Over the last couple of weeks i've been curious and very interested in playing around with the CSS framework - Blueprint when i became aware of it through various websites.  read more »

Yes, those damn special characters that are supposed to be escaped in your code are never easy to remember when you need them.

Over at WebMonkey they have kindly compile are list of them for reference. Be sure to print it out. Otherwise, if you are running Firefox you may want to use this excellent extension: Unicode Convertor/Input Tool

Found this on the web and i must say it’s probably the best CSS cheat sheet i’ve come across.

View the CSS Cheat Sheet