Archived posts, April 2006
Making your headlines work for you and for your readers
Make your headlines work for you by bringing in new readers, and for your readers by helping them understand what your articles are about.
Google tells IE users to get Firefox
Google’s homepage is now featuring an ad for Firefox with Google Toolbar that is only displayed to Internet Explorer users.
Blog Design Solutions
A great help to anyone who is about to set up a blog and wants to know which blogging engine to use (or how to build their own).
The history of web standards and accessibility
A story of web standards and accessibility from the release of HTML 3.2 in 1997 until now, with a look at what we can expect in the future.
Evaluating website accessibility
An introduction to a series of articles that explain techniques for evaluating the accessibility of a website. Useful to both developers and website owners.
CSS Showcase - a gallery of CSS menus
A gallery of CSS based menu designs and CSS techniques for creating various types of tabbed navigation.
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
A book that is a great guide to CSS tips, tricks, and techniques, and contains extensive coverage of browser bugs, hacks, and filters.
Indicating language choice: flags, text, both, neither?
Do not use flag icons to indicate language choice. Instead use the name of the language as text in the language itself.
Easily digested, Bite Size Standards
Useful information on web standards and related topics in small, bite-sized chunks.
A showcase for attractive and accessible websites
Accessites.org is a showcase for websites that dispel the myth that accessible websites have to be boring and basic.
CSS support in email clients
The level of CSS support varies so much from one email client to another it’s frustrating, but this guide will help you out when you need to create HTML newsletters.
Styling text fields in Safari
In the latest builds of WebKit, single line text inputs can be heavily styled with CSS. Use with care.
Alt text is an alternative, not a tooltip
Alternative text should never be displayed at the same time as the image it provides an alternative for.
Box model article in CAP&Design
Issue 3/2006 of Swedish design magazine CAP&Design features an article I have written about the CSS box model and Internet Explorer.
Content Management Systems used by public sector websites found lacking
A survey shows that CMSs used by Swedish public sector websites are lacking with respect to accessibility and web standards.
And we have a winner
Announcing the winner of the 456 Berea Street tagline contest: Between Web Standards Boulevard and Accessibility Road.
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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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