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,…
Nested Lists Tabs
I copied the HTML from Listamatic 2 and started tweaking the CSS I had from a while back when I…
Listamatic 2
Time for another automatic list generator. Listamatic 2 will generate HTML and CSS for nested lists. Visitors are encouraged to…
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…
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…
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…
Listmania
Now available for lazy people like me: List-o-matic, an automated link list HTML and CSS generator….
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…
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….
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…
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….
SimpleQuiz
At SimpleBits, Dan Cederholm is running a quiz in which each question is about HTML markup. Three different methods are…
Skipping links
For accessibility reasons it is considered good practice to put a ”skip navigation” link at the top of each page…
More lists
Complementing Listamatic, Listutorial explains, step by step, how to use CSS to style HTML lists….
Lists of lists
For some time (a few months) I’ve been using lists to mark up things like navigation bars, menus and lists…
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…
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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