Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook

Posted on May 19, 2008 10:24:54 AM

The one thing those who work and play in the world of Web design know to be true is that the learning is never done. To expand on D. Keith Robinson’s well-rounded Web craftsman theory, making Web sites and doing it well is an art and a craft. Those dedicated to making Web sites well know how to provide great content using techniques to make their sites as inclusive as possible. In Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Read the rest of this entry »

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Toward a more standards compliant Internet Explorer

Posted on May 11, 2008 02:17:07 PM

Microsoft has corrected Internet Explorer’s nonstandard CSS box model by using a doctype “switch” at the top of an HTML document. Any one of several different doctypes can be placed at the start of the page file, telling modern browsers how to handle the code. For instance, if I use the “strict” doctype (I like the sound of that), Internet Explorer (IE) 6 knows not to use the old IE box model Read the rest of this entry »

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Making News with Web standards

Posted on Aug 27, 2007 11:15:36 AM

The San Francisco Examiner recently became one of the first newspapers in the country to fully adopt Web standards and publish a site that utilizes valid XHTML and uses no tables for layout.

I’ve been the webmaster at the Examiner for almost four years and have redesigned the site many times. With each redesign, the HTML and JavaScript seemed to get more complex. Eventually, working on the site became a complicated and discouraging Read the rest of this entry »

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Web standards designers heading toward academia?

Posted on Oct 5, 2006 01:10:45 AM

Is web design and web standard thinking—formerly a self-teaching badge of honor—heading into academia? Today NYC’s School of Visual Arts announced a new MFA program in Interaction Design, to launch “fall of 2009”. The program plans to focus on “concepts central to interaction design, including design research, human-computer interaction, interface design, graphic design, information architecture, and ubiquitous computing.” While the curricula sounds solid enough, the potential faculty is the bigger news: “A portion of the faculty includes” Christopher Fahey, David Womack, Jason Santa Maria, Karen McGrane, Khoi Vinh, Paul Ford, Rachel Abrams and Jeffrey Zeldman, with Liz Danzico presiding as department chair.

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Corporate Web Standards

Posted on Sep 27, 2006 03:31:47 PM

We’ve all heard the fairy-tales about the prince kissing the princess, but the story just ends there; they both live happily ever after, riding off into the sunset, never to be seen again. But in real life, that’s just the beginning of the story—after the kiss and the sunset comes the hard work and the real relationship.

It’s a similar situation when getting a large organization on board with web standards. Read the rest of this entry »

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