Tags: web standards
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Third anual CSS Naked Day
For one day I'm flashing my naked <body/> at the world. The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good 'ol play on words. It's time to show off your <body>. Perverts ;)
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Current state of the web in Slovenia
With the web 2.0 boom expanding to all countries of the world (yes, even Slovenia), you would expect that web standards are spreading as well. But a quick glance at this years Izidor (annual award for web excellence) shows that something is rotten (or rotting) in the Slovenian web. Nominees spreadsheet To make this evident I have put together a simple spreadsheet of this years nominees, checking their compliance with W3C guidelines. Every nominee was checked for: DTD use proper...
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Book Review: CSS Mastery
You might have noticed that I keep a farely up to date list of what I'm currently reading, and as you might have guessed, I like to read quite a bit. That is why this might become a constant section on this page. OK enought chatter, lets get down to business. CSS Mastery, written by Andy Budd of Clearleft fame, is by far one of the best CSS books I've recently had the pleasure of reading. Written for the bit more savvy web developers, wich means the author does not beat about the bush and...
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@media podcasts
Things didn't work out as I thought. @media slipped through my fingertips, exams came in the way of my trip and decided to give it a miss and focus on my studies as it was scheduled right in the middle of my semester exams. Shame. But the folks at Vivabit kept their promise and have been releasing a podcast of the sessions each week for a while now. Here is a list of current session podcast availible from the @media News & Discussion section: Eric Meyer: “A Decade of...
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Reboot
Third time is the charm. And this time around I'm really satisfied with the finished site. Really really :) I was trying to make a site that would be very readble, almost newspapper-like, but at the same time keep it as simple as possible. The real reason I entered again in this event (now for the third straigth time) is that I wasn't really satisfied with the last reboot. At first it looked sweet, but as time went by, I realised that I made a few mistakes. The first one beeing, trying to...
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@media 2006
Hold on to your hats (or whatever part of clothing you prefer) because Vivabits @media 2006 conference is coming to London on 15th -16th of June. Say what? @media, Europe's foremost professional web design conference, brings together some of the world's most highly respected web experts to talk about the latest major happenings, best-practice thinking, and cutting-edge techniques in the world of web design. The list of speakers is a sight for sore eyes. With web superheroes like Dan...
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Certification
We all know that in the world of today you're nothing without propper credentials (or to a sad fact, high connections). To get ahead you have to distinguish yourself from others, and that's why I've started to look for ways to certify my knowledge of the technologies I use. Since most of my current time is spent developing XHTML/CSS and PHP applications I've decided to start with PHP. From what I've gathered, Zend offers the leading PHP certification program. To attain the title Zend...
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Screenspired
I've just been featured on screenspire.com. I was just browsing through todays links and found a screen of my site. You can imagine my surprise. It is indeed a great honour to be listed. screenspire.com is a no-embellishment, no-comments, no-technology-favored source for recent website-designs, daily collected and handcrafted in an inspiring full( )screen view Thanks a bunch screenspire!
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Feed icons
A moment ago I was browsing throgh the screenspire screens and came accross Feed Icons. By adopting this icon as the identity of syndicated content, you're helping to... Eleminate confusion brought on by acronyms.Break down the international barriers.Bring feeds to the forefront. This made me browse through some of the blogs on my rojo feed list and found Matt's entrie. He linked to a post on the Micro$oft blog that suprised me a bit. I’m excited to announce that we’re...
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Here we go
So, November 1st is here, and it's time to unveil the new design. I'm quite satisfied with the new look, but as said, I've kept the old one as well. change style to minimal change style to fall As I write this there are still some kinks when you view the site in IE, but I tested it in all other modern browsers, and IE seems to be the only one having problems.Hope you like it.
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Have the standards changed?
800 x 600 It was said that 800 x 600 pixles rule is written in stone. But is it? The world around web developers is changing, but we still keep the same 'standard'. The world has long ago embraced 1024 x 768, and yet we still make everything for the old 800px width. Are we rigid? Stubborn? Or do we just have to make websites for those folks with 800px widths? The rule is to let everybody in so they can see the content, but does it really need to be the guy with the smallest width that...
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New book, new design...
I took klaut's advice and got my hands on the book she recomended. Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook writen by Danc Cederholm. I finally realised how many things I was doing wrong. So to begin with, I have redone the entire site with the mentioned book in my hand :) I have checked all of the sites for XHTML W3C compliancy and they all came back valid. I also decided to make the site a bit more accesible by using the Phark Method for image replacement. /* The Phark...
