Archived posts, September 2005
Collecting links for printing
Collect all URIs in a document and display them in a tidy list for printing.
Unobtrusive registration forms
What to do when you simply cannot avoid forcing users through a registration form.
CSS3 Multi-column layout considered harmful
Please think twice before using multiple columns to display longer articles on-screen.
Measuring text readability
How to check and improve the readability of your texts.
CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1
Part 1 of 3 in a series of articles explaining the selectors available in CSS 2.1.
CSS hacking for WYSIWYG CMSs
Many WYSIWYG CMSs that use in-page editing have problems with CSS based layouts.
Guide to weblog comments
How to become a good blog commenter.
Accessible “read more” links
Use CSS to make “read more” links more accessible to screen reader users.
CAP&Design Interview
I’m featured in the latest issue of Swedish design magazine CAP&Design.
Line length and readability
Long lines of text may not be that bad for on-screen readability after all.
Sensible email
Some good tips for writing email messages that get their job done.
Footnotes
Footnotes don’t exist in HTML, but you can fake them. Or not.
Hand coding
Why hand-coding HTML and CSS is better than using WYSIWYG applications.
Opera is now a free browser
No more banners, no more licensing fee. Just a good browser.
Check marking visited links
How to use generated content in CSS to insert a check mark symbol after visited links.
Typetester
A web application that lets you compare different typefaces and settings side by side.
Ethical search engine optimization
Promoting a website without using ugly tricks that can get it demoted or banned.
Keyboard navigation problems in IE and Safari
Internet Explorer and Safari have similar problems with in-page keyboard navigation.
No Mr. Ballmer, Microsoft Will not Win the Web
Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin.
Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox
The Web Developer Toolbar can help you perform some manual accessibility checks.
Who’s There? - an ebook about blogs
Seth Godin’s ebook is currently available as a free download.
Write Clear Titles
Write clear and meaningful titles for your articles and make sure to use that text in the title element.
Why do we have to fight?
Why do many decision makers, project managers, and tool manufacturers prevent us from doing things right?
10 Reasons Clients Don’t Care About Accessibility
Chris Heilmann makes a good analysis of most clients’ current attitude to web accessibility.
Custom borders with advanced CSS
Using advanced CSS to create custom corners and borders with multiple background images and generated content.
Screen Readers and CSS Layout
Screen readers speak content in the order it is in the markup, not in the order it is displayed on-screen.
Ten favourite Mac applications
List your ten favourite shareware or freeware Mac applications.
Declaring Languages in HTML and XHTML
A good summary of techniques for specifying the language of content.
CSS Table Gallery
Data tables styled with CSS.
The Autistic Cuckoo is dead
One of my favourite bloggers is calling it quits. Very sad news.
CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler
Helps keep your CSS as valid as your markup.
Web Standards Are Your Responsibility
Stop looking for excuses not to use web standards.
Starting with CSS
A set of CSS rules to use as a starting point.
Print-friendly CSS and usability
A discussion on whether using CSS media types to automatically load a print stylesheet may break user expectations when printing web pages.
addEvent() considered harmful
Required reading if you use Scott Andrew LePera’s addEvent() event handler script.
Optimizing CSS presentation in HTML emails
Use CSS to improve the markup of HTML emails.
footerStickAlt - positioning a footer with CSS
A slight modification of the footerStick method for positioning a footer with CSS.
Improving the CSS 2.1 strict parser for IE 7
Great news from the IE Blog. Now where’s the Mac version?
Basic webstandards Workshop
Russ Weakley covers more than the basics in this one.
Firefox investigation
When project managers who do not know about web standards run the show.
Information, sponsorship, and externals
About the author
Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.
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