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I’m going back to my secondary school for a careers day (which is odd because I don’t have a creer right now), so I’m making a link dump for anyone who’s interested in a career in web design. If you’d like to add something, especially in the irish companies bit because I’m bound to have offended someone, let me know.

Colleges

• http://www.ncad.ie/
• http://www.iadt.ie/
• http://www.tcd.ie/
• http://www.dit.ie/DIT/Homepage/index.html

HTML/Programming

• http://www.w3schools.com/
• http://www.sitepoint.com/
• http://www.webstandards.org/
• http://www.accessify.com/

CSS

• http://www.stylegala.com/
• http://thesis.veracon.net/
• http://www.csszengarden.com/
• http://cssvault.com/
• http://cssbeauty.com/

Flash

• http://www.coolhomepages.com/
• http://www.flashkit.com/
• http://www.coolhomepages.com/

Blogs & Chat

• http://www.zeldman.com/
• http://www.mezzoblue.com/
• http://www.simplebits.com/
• http://www.creativeireland.com/
• http://www.sitepoint.com/
• http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=381

Books

• http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/
• http://www.simplebits.com/publications/solutions/
• Designing with Web Standards
• http://www.friendsofed.com/

Big/Cool/I Know Them/I Worked For Them/Work With Them Irish Companies & People

• http://www.gravitate.ie/
• http://www.mediaone.ie/
• http://www.brightspark-consulting.com/
• http://www.clearscape.ie/home.htm
• http://www.xcommunications.ie/
• http://www.eoghanmccabe.com/
• http://www.metronet.ie/
• http://www.spoiltchild.com

I’ve made a slight change to the site’s CSS. (If you’re using Internet Explorer, you won;t see it, so check it out in Firefox or on a Mac). Basically, the links in a post or paragraph now only display the underlines when your cursor is over the post/paragraph. This was achieved by adding the following to the CSS:

#lColPortfolio a { text-decoration: none; }
#lColPortfolio *:HOVER a { text-decoration: underline; }

The * means “anything”, so I’m saying that when you hover over something, e.g. a

, all the tags in there will be given an underline. IE only recognises :HOVER when it comes after an tag AFAIK, so that’s why it doesn’t work in IE.
Any comments, queries, bug reports etc. are welcome.

Davis Business Consultants website has been added to the portfolio section of the site. Another week, another site! You can see the site at http://www.davisbusinessconsultants.com/. Davis Business Consultants was set up in 2001 by Paul Davis FCMA, a fellow member (more…)

Brightspark Consulting website has been added to the portfolio section of the site. Wow, what a busy week! You can see the site at http://www.brightspark-consulting.com/. After a long and fruitful relationship, the time finally came to redevelop Brightspark’s own website. The challenge in this site was to help Brightspark to develop a site that properly represented their ideals and methodologies.

The Bank of Ireland Global Markets website has been added to the portfolio section of the site. You can see the site at http://www.bankofirelandglobalmarkets.com/. Bank of Ireland Global Markets Energy & Emminsions is a new investment area for Bank of Ireland. The site provides news and updates for the global energy and emissions markets.