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The essence of a website is self-service. There are three core things that self-service needs to get right: convenience, speed, and price. Convenience means task achievement with minimum effort. Speed means that you get in and out of a website as quickly as possible. People are cheap on the Web.
The three core principles of great […]

What are the advantages of using web standards? (WaSP : Learn : FAQ)
Developing With Web Standards

Simpler development and maintenance: Using more semantic and structured HTML makes it easier and quicker to understand code created by somebody else.
Compatibility with future web browsers: When you use defined standards and valid code you future-proof your documents by reducing […]

Stylish, smooth, slick, elegant, pastel colors, elegant typography, heavy graphics, Macromedia Flash
Passing Notes

f you are a web designer or front-end developer, you are probably familiar with how different browsers or user agents displays your code in their own way. Picture this: You are pushing pixels and refining your designs so it fits perfect in your Firefox browser, but when presenting your design to the client in Internet […]

Have you ever wanted to make a resizable box with rounded (or any shape) corners, custom borders, and a transparent shadow? Did you also want to do that without cluttering your markup with a bunch of non-semantic div elements? Now you can.
Transparent custom corners and borders | 456 Berea Street

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: […]

Create mini tabs using standard and compatible CSS and HTML
With the helpful concepts explained on Eric Meyer’s article, a while ago I turned to inline one of the nicest horizontal menus in its simplicity: the famous Mini Tabs by Dan Cederholm. I thought I’d share here the results.
Inline Mini Tabs

What is a Landing Page?
A landing page is the page visitors arrive at after clicking on your promotional creative.
Your landing page has to convince the visitor to stay and (depending on your goal):
* Fill out a form (but people hate filling out forms)
* Provide personal details (but […]

Yahoo has released a guide to RSS for content publishers, which is now available at http://publisher.yahoo.com/rssguide . This guide is less about rolling an RSS feed and more about what to do once you’ve got an RSS feed, specifically what to do with Yahoo.
Yahoo Offers Publisher’s Guide to RSS

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 […]