Category Archives: web development

Getting Ready for HTML5!

Although the first sentence of the article begins with “With support in Chrome, Firefox 3.5, Opera, and Safari”, you can actually start using this with every major browser, including all the IEs, with a little help from JavaScript. This is … Continue reading

Improve your CSS Minification by Alphabetizing

I personally like my CSS declarations grouped together by location within the site (all the CSS for my Home grouped together, all the CSS for my Contact page grouped together, etc.), but this article about alphabetizing your CSS from Ajaxian … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Is everyone ready for yet another browser?  Well, at least this one is backed by Marc Andreessen, so, who knows, it might just be good! The latest from Mr. Resig (jQuery author), pretty cool graphically, but really only useful (I … Continue reading

Firefox: Making IE Look Worser and Worser with Each Incremental Release…

CSS enhancements, speed improvements, and more… http://ajaxian.com/archives/css-improvements-speed-and-more-with-firefox-36-alpha Oh IE… Happy browsing, Atg Top⇪

For a truly semantic web…

Want truly semantic HTML? Maybe we should drop the strict tag names… If HTML wanted to be truly semantic, to offer the most flexible and descriptive structure it can, it would ease back a little and absorb a bit more … Continue reading

Building a better favicon?

A while back I wrote about adding favicons to websites. They’re simple, they’re cute, and they seem to really impress clients. So why not? At the time I recommended a freeware, Adsen FavIcon, for the job. Since that time, a … Continue reading

When Launching a New Website, Be Sure to Visit Google Webmaster Central

So, you been around the block several times with your client, you’ve confirmed all designs and layouts, you’ve double-checked all the functionality of your newest creation, and now you finally have the okay from the client to launch the site, … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

This site has some awesome jQuery, too bad the site is dead without JS… tisk-tisk… http://www.levikoi.com/ Pretty cool UI, but ditto: http://unowhy.com/ Ditto… http://www.dreamerlines.lv/ And wow, this one snaps in half pretty badly, but it sure has some cool interaction … Continue reading

Proof of just how dangerous a little early-morning coffee can be…

So, a seemingly-harmless line in the Google blog (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/) sent me merrily tangenting this morning… In the post titled “Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content” (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/05/design-patterns-for-accessible.html), under the section header titled “CSS sprites and navigation links”, I read … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

A handy HTML 5 Cheatsheet (PDF)… So why not add in a CSS3 Cheatsheet (PDF)? Coming soon from Mac? 24 JavaScript Best Practices for Beginners (not just for beginners…) Read them all!! 20 Tools to Make the Life of a … Continue reading