Entries tagged with: Web Standards

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Basic CSS Forms with Row Highlighting

A friend of mine recently asked me about creating forms with XHTML/CSS and since I've been recycling some simple form code for a while now I thought I'd share it.  I've also seen a lot of sites that are standards-compliant...

Posted on June 18, 2009 4:12 PM

Book Review: DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith

I've had time lately to do a lot more reading and Jeremy Keith's DOM Scripting book is another one that belongs on your shelf if you're trying to learn any amount of JavaScript.  I've hated and avoided JavaScript for years,...

Posted on May 9, 2008 3:00 PM

Rollover images with unobtrusive DOM scripting

There are about a million different scripts out there for doing JavaScript rollover images. Most of them however, aren't very good. They often require multiple functions... one to preload the images, one to swap them on rollover, and another to...

Posted on April 12, 2008 5:00 PM

Death to the "Read More" link

This is a post about something that I'd thought had died out but I've started seeing it a lot again lately. Whenever a designer does a new website design, they rarely have copy to work with. So when creating promotional...

Posted on December 2, 2007 5:20 PM

CSS Naked Day

April 5th is the second annual CSS Naked Day. The idea behind it is to strip all the CSS from your site/blog to show the standards based content underneath. It's to promote web standards and help developers remember that it's...

Posted on April 5, 2007 12:01 AM

Code Scene: Greatest Hits

It's hard to believe it but it's been an entire year since I started the Code Scene blog. My goal was to catalog some of the tips and tricks I've picked up and share them with my friends, colleagues, and...

Posted on December 6, 2006 12:36 PM

Critical Thinking Exercise - Answers

A few days ago I posted a "critical thinking exercise" which was designed to help you learn the type of things you should be looking for when you do a code review....

Posted on June 22, 2006 8:49 AM

An Exercise in Critical Thinking

One of the biggest challenges in this field is often finding the time to do a proper QA process on projects before they launch. Tight deadlines and last-minute changes often eradicate much of the time that should be allocated to...

Posted on June 18, 2006 12:11 AM

Building a Website: Getting Started

I build a lot of websites. To date, I've launched dozens of sites: some, microsites of only a few pages; others, massive dynamic sites with content that would span several reams of paper. While the projects always differ in size,...

Posted on April 18, 2006 11:10 PM

Website Accessibility Checklist

One of the most overlooked aspects of web development has long been accessibility. More often then not the mentality has been "blind people don't come to my site so who cares?" To that end let me dispense with a common...

Posted on February 19, 2006 1:44 PM

Website Launch Checklist

Your new website launches tomorrow. You've got twelve rounds of edits from the client and eighteen other people calling you about different projects. You always want to deliver the highest quality work but things inevitably get lost in the shuffle....

Posted on January 16, 2006 4:05 PM

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