design reverb

Its that time again. Time for the web design industry survey from A List Apart.

Last April, A List Apart asked

Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?

This year they are at it again.

Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide.

So get on over to A List Apart and take the survey.

I TOOK IT. And so should you.

Let me start out by saying I really HATE Internet Explorer 6. Yes, I know you do too. Microsoft needs to make everyone upgrade. Period. No excuses. No whining, just make them do it. It should be a required update. Now that I’m done with my rant, on to the subject of this post.

I wrote previously about the Internet Explorer 6 disappearing image problem, and its solution:

position:relative;

but even then that sometimes doesn’t fix the problem. In those instances, usually when a background image is placed on paragraph, you can use:

height:1%

IE6 reads/interprets height as min-height. I have seen it used like this:

p {

}

The underscore makes it so IE6 is the only web browser to see it.