Archived posts, July 2004
Throwing Tables Out the Window
A makeover of the microsoft.com homepage.
Ticked-off links Reloaded
A new version of Simon Collison’s Ticked-off Visited Links.
Eric Meyer on floats
A couple of posts about using floats for layout from Eric Meyer.
XHTML FAQ
The W3C’s HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions.
W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X
How to install the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X.
Heading hierarchy
An interesting discussion on the use of HTML’s heading elements.
Designing a CSS based template - part IV
Part four of a nice CSS tutorial.
Prevent dynamic collapsing margins
How to prevent IE6/Win from dynamically collapsing margins.
Make divs behave like tables
How to use CSS display properties to make divs behave like tables.
Not Found Is Not An Option
An article on how to avoid and handle broken links.
The second browser war
Internet Explorer is losing market share.
Boxes in Columns
A tutorial on bordered boxes and margin collapsing.
Defensive Design For the Web
If there is one single rule that always holds within web design and development, it’s that something will go wrong…
Learning CSS
Strategies and resources for learning CSS.
Bulletproof Slants
A technique for creating slant-separated navigation bars.
Architecture of the World Wide Web
A W3C document on the bases of Web architecture.
WCAG 2.0 Scripting group
Making JavaScript compatible with the goals of Web accessibility.
Trimming form fields
Let users hide optional form fields.
The concept of Home
A discussion on the use of “home” links on websites.
IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter
A new CSS filter that can be used to import a separate CSS file for IE5/Mac.
Mobile web development
Things to keep in mind when making web pages viewable and usable in mobile browsers.
Visited Links
A discussion on how to represent the distinction between visited and unvisited links.
24-timmarswebben 2.0
Guidelines (in Swedish) for developing and designing websites for the Swedish public sector.
Summer vacation
I’m taking a much-needed few weeks off, and to really wind down I will spend as little time as possible…
Muddling through
Suggestions to help you minimize your muddling as a web developer.
XHTML Validator to RSS source
Use your RSS reader to regularly check that your site is valid.
HTML Language = Javascript
Microsoft really needs to hire some developers who actually know HTML.
Multimedia in Web Documents
WaSP asks the W3C how multimedia objects should be inserted into web documents.
Building Accessible Websites
Web accessibility is something that the vast majority of all web professionals know little to nothing about. Some believe that…
More Eric Meyer on CSS
This follow-up to Eric Meyer on CSS has more of the same, and is just as good as the first…
Designing with Web Standards
I waited for a long time before buying this book, thinking it wouldn’t contain much new to me. When I…
Eric Meyer on CSS
I had been advocating the use of web standards for a long time before I bought this book, but it…
Image Replacement Methods
Detailed descriptions of various image replacement methods.
Revised image replacement
A whole bunch of image replacement methods.
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