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Hey Webmaster,
when you create a new website, blog or whatever, you should be sure that the RSS / Atom links are working properly.
Wordpress, for instance, has several types of syndication links enabled by default, are you sure you want to keep all of them? Do you usually use an external service like https://www.feedburner.com/ to serve […]

The Wordpress Contact Form plug-in is something you can’t live without. It allows the administrator, you, to receive emails from users and visitors. The problem is that I keep on receiving spam through that form and, I am afraid, there could be a security hole allowing spammers to send unsolicited emails through it.
Is there a […]

Vitaly Friedman | Blog: 20 Rules Of Smart And Successful Web-development
“20 Rules Of Smart And Successful Web-development”

XHTML2 is the next version of the XHTML family, and is going to last call Real Soon Now. This presentation gives an overview of what XHTML2 is trying to achieve.
XHTML2 is the next iteration in the HTML family.
XHTML1 addressed the problems of turning HTML into an XML application.
XHTML2 addresses the remaining identified problems in HTML4/XHTML1
XHTML2: […]

Javascript is a wonderful tool to enhance the usability of web sites. It is the extra layer above the mark-up “what is this text” and the CSS “how should it be displayed”. Javascript adds a new dimension, the “how should this element behave”.
On the following pages we will discuss and see how we can use […]

A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.
css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design

In my Modular CSS article I documented the possibility of breaking down stylesheets into components that could be reused across projects. All well and good. The next logical step is to extend this to become a CSS framework, allowing rapid development of sites with pre-written and tested components. All that’s really required to produce this […]

What is the box office?
“The Box Office” is another handy tool which makes us web developers even more lazy.
It automates the time-consuming job where one would have to manually create transparent div’s so that a certain piece of text would go around the contour of an object inside an image. (Just read on, it’ll get […]

Vitaly Friedman kindly suggested to StraTechnologist his enormous resource for Web developers and I happily report his work here for you:
“Web-Dev-Bookmarks” is a list of essential web-sites, tutorials, references and examples (related to CSS Navigation Menus, CSS- & HTML-Techniques, Layouts, Accessibility, Usability, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) etc.) which make the life of web developers […]

In large tables it’s often hard to focus on one row, making it hard to extract data from the table. There are various scripts (client–side as well as server–side) floating around the net that provide the ability to style odd/even table–rows to aid readability of tabular data.
Almost a year after my comment at A List […]