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.

  • July 27, 2004
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Eric Meyer on floats

A couple of posts about using floats for layout from Eric Meyer.

  • July 27, 2004
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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.

  • July 26, 2004
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Designing a CSS based template - part IV

Part four of a nice CSS tutorial.

  • July 26, 2004
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Prevent dynamic collapsing margins

How to prevent IE6/Win from dynamically collapsing margins.

  • July 26, 2004
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Make divs behave like tables

How to use CSS display properties to make divs behave like tables.

  • July 26, 2004
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Not Found Is Not An Option

An article on how to avoid and handle broken links.

  • July 26, 2004
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The second browser war

Internet Explorer is losing market share.

  • July 26, 2004
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Boxes in Columns

A tutorial on bordered boxes and margin collapsing.

  • July 26, 2004
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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…

  • July 14, 2004
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Learning CSS

Strategies and resources for learning CSS.

  • July 12, 2004
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Bulletproof Slants

A technique for creating slant-separated navigation bars.

  • July 12, 2004
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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.

  • July 8, 2004
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IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter

A new CSS filter that can be used to import a separate CSS file for IE5/Mac.

  • July 7, 2004
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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…

  • July 2, 2004
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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.

  • July 2, 2004
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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…

  • July 1, 2004
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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…

  • July 1, 2004
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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…

  • July 1, 2004
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Eric Meyer on CSS

I had been advocating the use of web standards for a long time before I bought this book, but it…

  • July 1, 2004
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Image Replacement Methods

Detailed descriptions of various image replacement methods.

  • July 1, 2004
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Revised image replacement

A whole bunch of image replacement methods.

  • July 1, 2004
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