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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 9: Tag (and Attribute) Soup
In case you were wondering, I’ve got two more posts after this one and then I’m moving onto CSS and JavaScript. I’ve got a post on forms (which I’ve been avoiding because forms feel like work) and then a post on the new HTML5 elements and then that’s it. Writing about CSS and JavaScript will…
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 8: Tables!
Before I jump into the proper way to use tables, I’m going to share an anecdote that should bring a smile to the face of anyone who’s done this stuff for a while. A few months ago I was both pleased and surprised to discover a web developer who didn’t really know how to lay…
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You Probably Didn’t Notice – This Site is Now HTML5
I did the conversion last week. As I’ve talked about blogs and HTML5 are so natural the whole conversion probably took no more than 8 hours. Of course, that 8 hours was spread out over a few days. Which is one of the big reasons I didn’t post anything last week. I was busy getting…
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 7: Best Practices for Lists (UL, OL, DL)
Lists! They might seem boring, but if you look at a lot of site source code (good sites at least,) you’ll see a lot of lists. A lot of obvious content on the net is in the form of lists (which is why there are three separate constructions for them) and a few years ago…
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A Quick Examination of the Memory and Perfomance Ramifications of CSS Sprite Dimensions
I recently ran into an interesting CSS Sprite. It contains what appears to be all of a web app’s site’s icons. What was interesting was the fact that it’s a 32 Bit PNG at 1500 x 1500 pixels- many of which are empty. Here’s what it looks like shrunk down for easy consumption and the…
