Here’s wishing you all a safe, prosperous and blessed 2006. I never thought I’d see 20 years after high school. :p Remember, kids. Don’t shoot into the air. What goes up must come down. When you do this you are violating my “wishing you all a safe” part up above. Don’t be stupid. Leave that [...]

How to fix a poll to make it say what you want it to say

Only one thing annoys me more than uncompressed images and that’s SPAM!

I wasn’t sure she’d have this one in by Monday but Samantha Burns’ Moron Of The Week #15 is ON! I wish I could fast forward to Friday! I hope my guess is right.

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The code that Flash outputs is not standards compliant and embed tags do not validate because they are not part of the XHTML standard.

Moron of the Week by Samantha Burns. What a perfect idea. Moron Of The Week # 14 is now on. Somebody already picked my best guess. Get your answer in quick!

Note: The following series has been consolidated into one article here. Dump the WYSIWYG Do not use markup for presentation Include a proper doctype Validate your markup Validate your CSS Build for Firefox and hack for IE If you have a problem ask for help Let’s go through each of these steps in greater detail

Let’s face it. You can either be a part of the problem or a part of the solution. If you are allowing an application to turn out your markup then, unfortunately, you are a part of the problem. Yes, this includes Dreamweaver and GoLive. I am thoroughly convinced that these “web page editors” are for [...]

Tables are meant to be used for one thing and one thing only and that is the display of tabular data. Please, do not use tables for layout. It is much better left to CSS. Using tables for layout is a messy hack often used to “get pages to look the same in all browsers”. [...]

You start your sentences with a capital letter; start your HTML with a DOCTYPE. It’s just basic grammar. – Mark Pilgrim from Dive Into Accessibility Using a complete doctype will switch your browser into standards mode. This will cause it to render the page exactly as you have instructed it (which may look awful but [...]

Developing a website without validating is like running around with a blindfold on. As soon as you ask for directions, don’t be surprised if the only answer you’ll get is “take your blindfold off”. – some guy named Jim Validate your markup here Validate your CSS here