Tags: xhtml
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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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Javascript gallery
The very word Javascript has long been associated with those pesky pop-ups, pop-unders and what-not. Developers used it to do just about every anoying thing you could possibly imagine. Well, with the recent resurgance of the DOM, Javascript is gaining serious ground and is being used for what it was intended in the first place. Behaviour. That is why when I was recently confronted with the idea of creating a slideshow gallery, I jumped at the chance of using Javascript & DOM. The plan...
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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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Fluid length rounded corner buttons
We've all come accross a design that dictated that the form buttons should have rounded corners (especially in the web 2.0 era). The creation of fixed length rounded corner button is second nature to any self proclaimed web deveopler, but the creation of fluid (well at least fluid inlength if not in height) rounded corners is another thing all together, and that is what I'll be talking about in this entrie. To create our illusion of fluid length rounded button I've prepared two images that...
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IE6 Multi-Class Bug
I've got a doosey to report. I recently stumbled accross an interesting and not very well documented IE bug. First let me show you the XHTML and CSS so you can be as stomped as I was. Say you have an icon that has its background changed depending on the site you are on. Say you put it inside an emptly div for some reason or another. The code would look something like this: ... <div id="icon" class="notice"></div> ... Simple, not very semantic, but it's only for...
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FAQ
I recently started my quest for the perfect FAQ. With perfect I mean that it has to be XHTML valid, semantic, accessible and viewed by as many different browsers as possible. First thing I did is set up the semantic XHTML part, for wich I opted to use the definition list tag <dl>. <dl> <dt>Question #1</dt> <dd>Anwser to question #1</dd> <dt>Question #2</dt> <dd>Anwser to question #2</dd> <dt>Question #3</dt>...
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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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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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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...
