Archived posts, June 2004
Internet Explorer Too Risky
Recent articles on the security risks involved in using Internet Explorer.
Articles on Search Engine Positioning
Twelve articles and a glossary on SEO.
Zeldman vs. drop-down menus
Zeldman shares his feelings on drop-down menus.
Microsoft.com Redesign: The Final Frontier
The final installment of the Microsoft.com redesign project.
Validation
Andy Budd writes about his take on validation.
Quick guide to UTF-8
How to convert your website to the UTF-8 character encoding.
Inverted Sliding Doors Tabs
A few days ago I promised to write about something that isn’t about different ways of styling boxes with CSS….
On separate but equal design
An excellent article on text-only alternatives and accessibility.
A Validation Tale
Real world examples of why validation is very important and can be a great help.
Structural naming
Further thoughts on structural naming conventions from Eric Meyer.
Designing a CSS based template
A step-by-step tutorial on creating a CSS based page template.
CSS Hack Management
How to manage CSS hacks when you have to use them.
Flexible box with custom corners and borders
This will be the last thing I write about boxes with rounded corners, custom borders or dropshadows for a while….
Microsoft.com Redesign: Pardon Our Dust
Part four of Milan Negovan’s microsoft.com redesign exercise.
10 Accessibility Blunders of the Big Players
Trenton Moss takes a look at common accessibility problems on many major websites.
Hidden Information
Many accessibility techniques provide information that is hidden from most users.
5 questions to ask your web development team
Five questions that managers and site owners should be asking their web developers.
Camino 0.8
Version 0.8 of Camino, the Mozilla based browser for Mac OS X, is out.
CSS Redesigns
A presentation of the process of converting two news sites from tables to CSS for layout.
Sliding Doors Meets CSS Sprites
”Sliding doors” tabs with fewer images.
Structural naming conventions
Interesting ideas on naming conventions for common page elements.
Web Standards Link Bonanza
A huge list of links to web standards resources.
Keyboard Usage and Tabindex
How adding tabindex attributes to links can cause accessibility problems.
Flexible news list
Time for yet another example of a ”flexible boxes with rounded corners” technique. This time I’ve created a flexible news…
Statistics defence
Arguments against the “statistics defence” many people use as an excuse for ignoring accessibility.
Microsoft.com Redesign
Milan Negovan redesigns microsoft.com as an educational exercise in web standards.
Mozilla 1.7
Mozilla 1.7 is now available.
SEO and Non-HTML Sites
How to make non-HTML content show up in search engines.
Web Developer Extension
An excellent extension for Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox.
Firefox 0.9
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 has been released.
Mobile CSS is a Reality
A follow-up to HTML and CSS for Mobiles.
Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins
Clever use of negative margins to create semi-liquid, source ordered layouts.
CSS teaser box revisited
In case you had a look at my CSS teaser box demo from last week, you’ll know that it has…
Where do we go from here?
Some ideas on how to make more people aware of, and use, web standards.
HTML and CSS for Mobiles
A test page to examine how web enabled PDAs and phones handle CSS media types.
Accessible HTML/XHTML Forms
An excellent guide to creating accessible web forms.
The real reason for web standards
Andrei Herasimchuk on the real reason why you should care about web standards. This is required reading.
webstandardsgroup.se
Intended to be a source of information on web standards, in Swedish.
Standards backlash
Molly E. Holzschlag responds to the recent frustrations being expressed by some standards evangelists.
CSS 2 Selector Fundamentals
A thorough explanation of the different kinds of selectors in CSS 2.
Against Search Engine Optimisers
An interesting article on search engine optimisers, and why many of them should be avoided.
Ampersands and validation
Anne van Kesteren writes about the XML entities that must be encoded in Ampersands matter. One of those entities is…
Default link styles inaccessible?
Derek Featherstone points out that the default link styles of most browsers don’t follow the WCAG.
What is an accessible website?
Jim Byrne examines four ways of defining what makes a website accessible.
CSS Teaser Box
Just a little something that may be of use to someone. It’s pretty common for websites to have “teasers” that…
WaSP Survey
Let the people at the Web Standards Project know what you work with and how you use web standards.
The Myth of Accessibility
Kevin Leitch claims that accessibility is little more than a myth
. Read the comments for an interesting discussion.
WHAT Working Group
A newly created group which will be working on extending browser technologies.
10 reasons for web standards
Simon Jessey lists ten reasons to develop with web standards. There are many more.
The Browser Wars Reignite
An interesting (and frightening) article on the new browser war.
Color palette creator
A nice little tool that generates a colour palette based on a colour of your choice.
Web Standards ROI
D. Keith Robinson on how developing with web standards lets you do more in less time.
Equal height boxes with CSS, part II
Update: Reading the comments to this, I can see that several people have misunderstood what I’m doing here. This does…
ieCapture
For those of us who don’t have access to a PC for browser testing.
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