Archives: Web Development
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March 2003
- HTML, WebDev, etc.
- Figured I’d just consolidate a couple of quick links into one post: Simon Willison unveiled Safe HTML Checker last week. It’s a script that makes it possible for people to use HTML in their comments without the worry of them being able to destroy your... full entry
February 2003
- Web Hosting Nightmares
- Most of you have probably never had to worry about webhosting. Really, it’s not something most people have to do. For better or worse, though, I’m one of those people who does have to worry about it. One of the sites I run, swagonline.net, recently... full entry
- Generating Simple URLs
- This is a topic covered fairly often. It’s particularly important with pMachine-powered sites since the current schema uses regular dynamic URLs with all the ?s and &s. So, here’s some information on generating “simple” URLs for dynamic sites. Really, it’s more of a resource in... full entry
- Block Those Spambots!
- Mark Pilgrim (of Dive Into Mark fame) has a great article up on blocking spambots, spybots, and other bandwidth hogs from your site. I don’t really have a problem on this site, but it’s definitely something I’m going to investigate for use on another site... full entry
December 2002
- How to select a URI
- URIs (that is, the server/path combination you type into a browser to find something) should be easy to remember, logical, and persistent. This is always something I’ve “sort of” thought about. I dislike going to a page that no longer exists or to a really... full entry
November 2002
- File Size Page Bloat
- Check out this fantastic tool that provides an easy way to see your content vs. code ratio. Wonderful tool for us developers. You can also see a few bookmarlet versions of the tool. Even easier to use that way.
- Leaky Abstractions
- Every once in a while, you come upon an article that’s just really good. It might not be that useful to most people, but for whatever reason it just gets “it” right. I found one of those articles today. Joelonsoftware put out an article about... full entry
- Love the DOM Inspector
- If you actually read the link I put up several days ago about 101 things Mozilla can do..., then you read about the DOM Inspector. Or maybe you knew about it already. Regardless, by now you should know just how fantastically cool this tool is... full entry
- More DHTML menu goodness
- Just a quick note that there’s another DHTML menu similar in concept to the one linked to the other day. Just another option and another approach.
August 2002
- An alternate link pseudo-class method
- A new article was posted over on evolt discussing an alternative method to define pseudo-classes for links. It’s pretty interesting and certainly something I wasn’t aware of before.
July 2002
- Accessible Weblogs
- Mark Pilgrim’s incredibly educational “30 Days to a More Accessible Weblog” series has now been spun off into a separate site: Dive Into Accessibility. I highly recommend these fantastic tips to any other web developers out there. I’m currently using several of them on this... full entry
June 2002
- Ignore those old browsers!
- Here is a useful page that deals with “hiding” CSS from old, buggy browsers. (via Eric Myer)
May 2002
- Time for a dose of web development
- Several juicy articles out there and available for your reading pleasure. A List Apart is featuring an article about doing print versions with CSS. Evolt has an ongoing series of articles about building your own CMS. Currently parts 1, 2, and 3 are up and... full entry
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