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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Many times focusing on standards and guidelines puts the focus on the technical aspects of accessibility, and the human interaction aspect is lost. This problem can be avoided by adopting the broader definition of accessibility as a guiding principle. Instead of focusing only on the technical aspects of accessibility, it is important to recognize that [...]
Tags: accessibility, quote, ui, usability
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Web Standards and the Shower Curtain
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Have you ever bought shower curtain rings and wondered if there were enough in the package to fit your shower curtain? Probably not. Why is that? Its because the shower curtain industry has standards, just like the standards we’re trying to implement on the Web. At some point in the process of creating shower curtains, [...]
Tags: business, content management, design, ui, Web Standards, Web Standards Curriculum
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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 »
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
Posted in Web Development, Web Standards | 18 Comments »
Clickable Labels
Monday, October 20th, 2008
In form design, there are many things you can do to improve usability, many of which have to do with label placement. I won’t go into the depths of it, but Chris from CSS-Tricks.com wrote a good article about placement, not too long ago. Read Chris’s article here Why read this? This reason I’m sitting [...]
Tags: CSS, form, ui, xhtml
Posted in Web Development, Web Standards | 5 Comments »
This Week in Links 9/24
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Opera Web Standards Curriculum Ever since Opera accepted that no one uses their browser for general browsing they’ve been huge activists for the semantic web, and this yet another example of what they’re doing to help the web evolve and educate the masses. Kudos to Opera. This should be required reading for all new developer/designers [...]
Tags: apache, desktop, htaccess, jquery, lunch, mac, opera, training, zine
Posted in News, Web Development, Web Standards | 2 Comments »
A New Breed of Microformat
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Because I’m a web dork (nice way to start a post, huh?), I was poking around YouTube last weekend and decided to crack it open in FireBug. I was on YouTube’s MayerMusic channel fiddling around with the video info section and notice that some of the info was wrapped in a quasi familiar class “vfacets”. [...]
Tags: google, mayermusic, microformats, youtube
Posted in Web Development, Web Standards | 3 Comments »
This Week in Links 9/10
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Evernote Evernote is a program to help you remember things. Think of it like a post-it not that you wear on your forehead all day. Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions It looks like Microsoft IS actually doing work on IE8, They just beefed up their CSS support. It actually looks pretty promising so far. Looks like [...]
Tags: a list apart, alexa, internet explorer, links, php, seo
Posted in Browsers, News, Web Development, Web Standards | 2 Comments »
Styling Your Body
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Diving into the depths of CSS involves much more than just mastering selectors, properties and semantic (X)HTML, it has a lot to do with knowing when you need extra elements (span, div, etc). What do I mean? Since CSS layouts have exploded into the mainstream of web design there have been few designer/developer types who [...]
Tags: CSS, design, tips
Posted in Web Development, Web Standards | 21 Comments »
For a Beautiful Web
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Every so often as I meander around the internet I find little bits of geek-dome brilliance in the markup of a site. This morning, I was reading For A Beautiful Web, a site put out by Andy Clarke. This site, by itself is a great resource, but that’s not why I’m writing this. I left [...]
Tags: comments, microformats
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