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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The “Home” link has been a staple on almost all of the Web sites I’ve made in the past 5 years, but lately I’ve been wondering how important it is. I heard Steve Krug at An Event Apart Boston 2007 talk about how the “home” link should always be list first in your navigation, but [...]
Tags: ui
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GMail If Statements
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Last night I went to the Celtics/Clippers game in LA. Boston lost, but it was a great game; right down to the wire. Anyway, that’s not the purpose of this write–up. When I got home, I uploaded the pictures and e–mailed them out to my family (as I do). I sent them out to dad, [...]
Tags: email
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Framing an Image
Monday, February 9th, 2009
I’m not sure exactly how well known it is, but you can put a background image on any HTML element… even an image. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it done on a live site before, but it can be very useful for creating an image template for repeated use; without having to do a [...]
Tags: CSS
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Validating with WAI-ARIA
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
I was reading Validating WAI-ARIA in HTML and XHTML. Since Roger has commenting turned off on his site now, I thought I’d write up a quick post with some thoughts on this. For those who don’t know, ARIA is a type of accessibility for Ajax apps (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). And WAI stands for "Web [...]
Tags: accessibility, wai aria
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Where I Get My News
Friday, January 16th, 2009
This morning it occurred to me that I haven’t written a post about my RSS feeds. I’ve been meaning to for about a year now, but for whatever reason it hasn’t happened until now. I rely on my feed reader for a lot of inspiration so I feel like I should share that and maybe [...]
Tags: rss
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Centering an Image
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
<div align=”center”> is deprecated. It’s been deprecated for a long time, but it keeps creeping up for things like center aligning an image. Another popular way to do this is to wrap an extra div around the image and set the text alignment to center. This creates (as you might know, I hate), an added [...]
Tags: CSS, xhtml
Posted in Web Development, Web Standards | 6 Comments »
This Week in Links 12/2
Monday, December 8th, 2008
CSS Deployment 101 Reinhold Weber talks about how to compress a CSS file before you push it to the server. this will shave off some load time by reducing everything to one line and removing much of the white space. It also allows you to modularize your CSS without it effecting HTTP requests, because this [...]
Tags: conference, CSS, jquery
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Header and Footer in the Semantic Web
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
A couple years ago I read through Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS and it really made me think about semantic naming conventions I had otherwise taken for granted. By now, most of us (at least people reading this blog) practice using semantic markup and meaningful class & ID names. But can we do it better? Probably. [...]
Tags: andy clarke, CSS, semantics, xhtml
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This Week in Links 11/5
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Good Practice in Pagination Smashing put out a good article on a topic that I think gets overlooked a lot when dealing with user interface. A lot of times it’s taken for granted, but pagination is an important page of the UI. Freshbooks Freshbooks is a service for the freelancer out there. It’s a fast [...]
Tags: billing, fireworks, freelancing, pagination, ui
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