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June 2004
- Are Tables for Layouts All Bad?
- Dave Shea over on mezzoblue has made a bit of a summary post about some recent discussion around the net regarding using tables for layout in some situations and where it’s appropriate. His discussion echoes a lot of what I’ve thought for a while: sometimes... full entry
March 2004
- ‘IE7’… CSS2 support in IE?
- Let me first be clear that this is not something about an “official” Internet Explorer 7 version. Instead, Dean Edwards is working on something that will basically make IE 5.5+ on windows behave well and correctly follow the CSS2 specification instead of being the ugly,... full entry
- ‘Markdown’ Formatting
- Damn. This is really, really cool. Daring Fireball, who I’ve linked to on occasion in the past, has a really interesting new formatting syntax available named Markdown. This is similar in concept to another popular formatting syntax, Textile. What I love about the approach used... full entry
- 99.5% Uptime Guaranteed. I’m supposed to be happy?
- I don’t know why I never bothered to do the math on this one before. I guess mainly because anytime people are talking about “a sure thing” but that they don’t have implicit control over, they say something to the effect of 99% guaranteed, or... full entry
February 2004
- Fix the validator movement
- The current live version of the CSS-Validator is broken, and is causing thousands and thousands of sites to be marred with the stigma of being invalid. If your site is using the box-model hack, in order for :IE: < 6 to correctly display your width-declared... full entry
January 2004
- Web Design References
- Brought to us by the University of Minnesota Duluth, this is simply an awesome resource for all things web design. From accessibility to PHP to typography. Revel in the greatness.
December 2003
- (X)HTML: Coding, Programming, or Neither?
- Webgraphics has up a post discussing whether or not :XHTML: and :CSS: can be considered to be [d]coding[/d], [d]programming[/d], or neither of the two. I’m definitely agreeing with those who say that it fits the definition of “coding” but that it definitely shouldn’t be considered... full entry
- iCapture: Free Screencaps in Safari
- Daniel Vine decided to put his old, retired iMac to good use and created iCapture. It’s much like BrowserCam in that it produces screenshots of a website for you, but the difference is that this one is free and it only does it in Safari... full entry
November 2003
- CssCreator: 3-column Layouts
- Yet one more entry into the “automate the web development process” category. This time it’s CssCreator, which is an online tool to help you create a 3-column, fixed-width, CSS-based (duh) design with all columns the same height. Oh, and it has headers and footers thrown... full entry
- Web Design: Flow and Float
- A couple of good design/development articles came to my attention yesterday, both by Position is Everything. The first article deals with positioning and flow of a document. It starts out talking about the standby “table-based” layout approach and then discusses how the various options for... full entry
October 2003
- Keep that Content & Presentation Separate
- I’m always posting links to sites/pages that discuss good web design techniques. Probably chief among them these days is the idea of separating your content from your presentation (or “style). Well, here’s yet another page that discusses this. This one’s a bit different than others... full entry
- ‘A List Apart’ v3.0
- After a bit of an absence from the online scene, A List Apart finally returns redesigned and with new content. ALA has always been a great resource for developers to learn useful tips & tricks as well as information about accessibility, compatibility, and other “ility”... full entry
- Color Scheme Chooser
- There are lots of sites out there designed to help people choose colors for their website. This Color Scheme site is one of the best I’ve seen. Despite the fact that the site isn’t in english, it’s still very easy to use and produces some... full entry
- Stymieing Spambots
- Scientific American has an article up about some of the methods people/websites are using to keep spambots out. The focus of this article was on CAPTCHAs, which are “cognitive puzzle that can be solved by humans but not by computers.” You’ve probably seen an example... full entry
- Unicode and Character Sets
- Joel on Software has a very interesting (and fairly long) article discussing character sets, character encoding, and what you should know about it. He touches on ASCII, ANSI, UTF-8, and lots of other stuff that you’ve probably heard of but likely didn’t really understand well.... full entry
- Web Accessibility Training
- James Craig has released a website that contains his training material for web accessibility from a training class given at the Austin Accessibility Internet Rally. (Why the heck didn’t I know about that before!!). I haven’t read it all, but so far the material is... full entry
- Firdamatic: Layout Generator
- Firdamatic (by Firda Beka) is another tool to help developers easily generate a CSS-based layout: FirdamaticTM is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily only by completing forms, making creating skins for your Firdamatic-based layout a breeze. I... full entry
September 2003
- Layout-o-matic
- Holy Bajeebus!! Layout-o-matic is an online tool that automatically creates cross-browser (well, pretty much everything but NN 4.x) CSS-based layouts. This is very, very cool for less experienced web developers.
- CSS Based Design
- Adactio (a site I hadn’t come across before) has a wonderful article up about using :CSS: based design. By that I mean what I’m always blathering about—using :XHTML: and CSS and separating style from content. What’s really interesting about this article (beyond the fact that... full entry
- List-o-matic!
- You’d think that with the number of postings I’ve made about “lists” that it’s the only thing I care about related to web development. Well, that’s not true. However, since correct usage of lists is both popular and relatively important I just follow the train.... full entry
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