Archived posts, September 2004
Content negotiation, AdSense, and comments
A few weeks ago I posted about my experiences with content negotiation, and some roadblocks I ran into when looking…
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Designer and user partnership
Both designers and users need to adapt to the flexibility of the web.
Back To Basics: HTML
Think you know HTML? You probably don’t. Especially if you use ASP.NET.
CSS templates competition
Create a CSS + XHTML template for Style Master and win some cash.
Bullet madness
A growing collection of bullets and arrows.
Going from iso-8859-1 to utf-8
I’d like to start using utf-8 for character encoding. This whole site is currently in iso-8859-1. Each time I try…
Full height sliding columns
A technique for creating equal height columns in a liquid layout.
Web Standards in Education and Government
Speaker notes from Dean Jackson’s (W3C) presentation at Web Essentials 04.
Paper vs. Pixels - Part 2
An explanation of some very important differences between designing for print and for the web.
Vanliga misstag inom webbuteckling
Note: this article is a Swedish translation of Web development mistakes, Redux. När jag besöker en webbplats gillar jag att…
Text Email Newsletter (TEN) Standard
A standard designed to increase usability and accessibility of plain text email newsletters.
Ten CSS tricks you may not know
A list of useful CSS tricks that are unkown to many.
Pocket-Sized Design
Suggestions for creating a handheld-friendly style sheet.
Absolutely relative
Absolute and relative CSS positioning explained.
Dynamic Elements
Why hiding and showing elements as a result of user interaction can reduce usability and accessibility.
Ten CSS tricks analysed by Tantek
Tantek Çelik makes some corrections and improvements to a recent Evolt article.
Mastery, Mystery, and Misery
Jakob Nielsen defines three different approaches to web design.
Universal Accessibility
Slides from a presentation on web accessibility.
Bad XHTML
When using XHTML, some details are often overlooked.
The perversion of Web Standards
Comments on the comments on my post about Web development mistakes.
Grids, tables, CSS
In a few recent posts, starting with the one in which he talks about the technique used for Sliding Faux…
Open Source CMS recommendations wanted
Back in April, I posted Content Management System needed, asking for advice on which CMS to recommend for a client….
mozilla.org Markup Reference
A document that defines a vocabulary of semantic markup and classes.
Less readable to be more accessible?
An interesting discussion about the Text Email Newsletter Standard.
The Economics of XHTML
Why using strict, semantic XHTML will save and make your business money.
Web design and development book reviews
One of the great things about working in the field of web design and development is that there is so…
Accessible Menu Tabs
Accessible menu tabs with rounded corners.
sIFR 2.0b: Come Kick the Tires
A beta version of Scalable Inman Flash Replacement 2.0 is now available.
Standards Savings
Eric Meyer comments on Rakesh Pai’s article The Economics of XHTML.
Web Essentials 04
The list of presenters and subjects really makes me wish Australia wasn’t so far away.
Why we are so zealous
Some reasons why high code quality is important.
Best practices in online captioning
A guide to publishing accessible video on the web.
Converting your team
Being the only person on a team of web designers and developers who knows or cares about web standards is…
Accessible alternatives
A discussion on when and how to provide text equivalents for images.
Don’t Make Me Think
My review of an excellent book on usability.
min-height: fixed;
How to give an element a minimum height without using min-height.
IE loses market share
Yet another report of Internet Explorer losing market share. Hope is alive.
Designing Web Usability
My review of this must-have book by Jakob Nielsen.
The Best of Eyetrack III
The key results of recent eyetracking research done on news sites.
html.css
Take a look around the web without default CSS rules.
Web standards religion? What religion?
In a recent ZDNet column, John Carroll tells makers of alternative (meaning non-Internet Explorer) browsers to drop the religion. What…
(X)HTML Specs Made Easy
Block level and inline level XHTML elements explained.
Web Standards Planet
Connecting web standards related bloggers and sites.
Speed Up Your Site
A review of Andrew King’s book on website optimisation. Learn how to make your site faster.
Resolution dependent layout
A promising looking way of using different layouts for different viewport sizes.
CSS positioning and z-index
A thorough guide to the effect of z-index values on relative and absolute CSS positioning.
Accessibility vs Branding
The other day I came a cross a pretty strange discussion, at least from my point of view, in a…
Spread Firefox
In case you haven’t already, go download Firefox 1.0 PR.
Gbrowser based on Mozilla? Let’s hope.
Rumours say that Google are going to release a browser based on Mozilla.
Printing stylesheets
Use server side scripting to load a print stylesheet.
Cost-Effective Website Acceleration
A three-part article series on website acceleration.
Slide Show Beta
Eric Meyer has created a slide show system based on a single XHTML document.
Copy and Paste
A description of problems caused by character encoding mismatches.
The Elements of Typographic Style
A review of Robert Bringhurst’s classic book on typography.
Styling form controls
A question that is frequently asked in forums like the css-discuss mailing list is how to style form controls in…
Checkboxes vs. Radio Buttons
Excellent advice on the use of checkboxes and radio buttons.
Sliding Doors for IE 5.0 Mac
A technique which can be used to make IE 5.0 Mac behave better.
CSS Property Reference
HTML Dog now has a CSS 2.1 property reference.
Internet Explorer headed for extinction?
Interesting reading.
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