Archived posts, September 2003

Moving to Movabletype

Recently I’ve started looking at Movabletype. So far I’ve been hand-rolling my blog. It’s not that much work (thank you,…

  • September 29, 2003
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Nested Lists Tabs

I copied the HTML from Listamatic 2 and started tweaking the CSS I had from a while back when I…

  • September 27, 2003
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Listamatic 2

Time for another automatic list generator. Listamatic 2 will generate HTML and CSS for nested lists. Visitors are encouraged to…

  • September 25, 2003
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Accessible Tables

I think I may have linked to some resources on making tables (data tables) accessible before. In case I haven’t,…

Verdana bad?

Why you should avoid the Verdana font is an interesting article by Stephen Poley. His opinion is that Verdana may…

SimpleQuiz Part VIII

I can’t resist regularly reporting when Dan Cederholm has published a new SimpleQuiz question. SimpleQuiz › Part VIII › Titles…

Header Images (again)

There are several ways of using CSS to replace HTML heading elements with images. A great way of separating content…

  • September 23, 2003
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Read all about it

CSS-Based Design by Jeremy Keith is a very well written guide to XHTML and CSS. A must read for both…

SimpleQuiz Part VII

Dan Cederholm keeps adding interesting questions to his SimpleQuiz series. Part 7, Order Up, focuses on the nesting order of…

  • September 20, 2003
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The Business Value of Web Standards

When you need arguments for adopting web standards, load Jeffrey Veen’s article The Business Value of Web Standards in your…

  • September 20, 2003
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Listmania

Now available for lazy people like me: List-o-matic, an automated link list HTML and CSS generator….

  • September 20, 2003
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Sitemaps

Inspired by D. Keith Robinson’s What’s Your Take on Sitemaps? I started thinking and writing a reply. I thought I’d…

Rounding Tab Corners

Eric Meyer has published a new CSS article at his Complex Spiral Consulting site. The article explains how to use…

  • September 18, 2003
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Web style guide

Silverorange have made an excellent style guide available on their site. The style guide was developed by silverorange for one…

Another Quiz Part

Dan Cederholm posted SimpleQuiz › Part VI › Form(atting). This question deals with forms, and how to separate form items….

  • September 17, 2003
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Image Replacement for IE5/Mac

As noted by Matt Haughey, IE5/Mac has problems with recent image replacement techniques (Image Replacement—No Span and A new image…

  • September 17, 2003
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Floating bugs

No, I’m not talking about dead insects floating on water here. I’m talking about an incredibly frustrating bug in IE/Win….

  • September 16, 2003
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SimpleQuiz

At SimpleBits, Dan Cederholm is running a quiz in which each question is about HTML markup. Three different methods are…

  • September 14, 2003
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Skipping links

For accessibility reasons it is considered good practice to put a ”skip navigation” link at the top of each page…

  • September 13, 2003
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More lists

Complementing Listamatic, Listutorial explains, step by step, how to use CSS to style HTML lists….

  • September 13, 2003
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Lists of lists

For some time (a few months) I’ve been using lists to mark up things like navigation bars, menus and lists…

  • September 9, 2003
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Restructuring in progress

I’m restructuring the XHTML and CSS of this site slightly. In case something looks weird or doesn’t work, please try…

  • September 7, 2003
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Markup structure

One of the casualties of 20th century tag soup was the structure of an HTML document. Since the default look…

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