Posts Tagged ‘xhtml’
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 »
A True CSS Table
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
A few years ago I while I was working at a community college in Virginia I was building a site for their Arts & Sciences department and trying out some think, different colored borders for the site container and I noticed that when two borders intersect they form a diagonal line. You can see it [...]
Tags: CSS, tips, xhtml
Posted in Web Development | 4 Comments »