Jul 25 2007 at 9:14am
We’ve been discussing this on the forum and haven’t come to a satisfactory conclusion. When doing a side-by-side form layout (with label to the left or right of the input), what’s the best way to structure them?
Jul 04 2007 at 2:48pm
There are many people still using outdated browsers. This is obviously a problem for webmasters, yet most of us don’t do anything about it. It’s not our problem, we say. We can’t annoy users by complaining about their browser version. But how do we expect the situation to ever change if we continue to be so complacent?
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Jun 05 2007 at 10:46am
Mike Cherim has another post today about the poor quality of free code. This is something I’ve come across many times – you think there should be a script out there to do what you need to do, go out looking, find something that looks good only to realize that they’ve got layout tables embedded in the PHP. Do you try to fix it or go look for something else? If there is nothing else, do you decide to make it yourself to avoid the hassle?
These developers don’t seem to realize that there is a problem with writing code like this. Here are 4 reasons why distributed code needs to be of high quality and standards compliant:
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May 01 2007 at 2:40pm
I just came across this The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs from Pearsonified. The headline for this article is a little bit misleading because the article is mostly about how we use the h1, h2, h3 tags. Sounds simple, right? Old hat? Maybe not…
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Apr 26 2007 at 10:20am
I’ve got two new articles up on A Padded Cell:
Creating a semantic FAQ page with definition lists and advanced CSS, Part 1
and
Creating a semantic FAQ page with definition lists and advanced CSS, Part 2
The first part goes over the structuring and presentation of a long Frequently Asked Questions page. The second part demonstrates two ways of creating navigation for the page. I hope you find them useful, and do let me know if you have any comments or questions.
Liam has also been releasing a lot of articles about standards, including What’s the Difference Between Usability and Accessibility? and Future Proofing Using Standards.
Feb 22 2007 at 7:56pm
Kathy Seirra has an interesting post about whether automated tools make us dumber. In the article she raises a number of examples, including web design:
But should a web designer need to be an HTML coder? Or can he just use a WYSIWYG tool? The debates still rage in the web development world, although the issue should be resolved soon enough. In desktop publishing, for example, you will never hear, “Oh, you can’t just use Quark or Adobe InDesign… you really need to tweak the Postscript by hand to do it right.”
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