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This is part 1 of my series on best practices. In future posts, I’ll cover best practices with back-end development and best practices with HTML forms. In the meantime, here are sometime guidelines to follow for your HTML pages: Reset Read more
These days it is almost unthinkable to develop a software project without a development framework of some kind. Most development frameworks that I’ve run across invoke the MVC programming paradigm or something similar. The advantage to using a framework is Read more
Developers are divided on what to do about the IE6 problem. Microsoft recently that they will support IE6 until April 8, 2014 effectively crushing the dreams of web developers everywhere. The problems with IE6 are as follows: It uses an Read more
With a company blog layout, I’ve found that the header normally contains the following sections: The logo or nameplate and site title. A skip-to nav that can only be seen by screen readers. Utility, “tools” or “highlight” navigation where important Read more
It used to be that if you wanted to have a dynamic webpage, one that really snapped, wowing and impressing users with its fluid, movie-like animation, the choice was clear: Flash. However, if users don’t have the plugin installed for Read more
Everyone has different opinions on the best way to markup HTML pages, from element positioning to what naming conventions to use and there are certainly best practices to consider as well. If you’re like myself and write markup for a Read more
Okay, so if you’re going to be a web developer, for starters, you’ll need a solid HTML Text Editor. I recommend three options: 1. BBEdit: The best I’ve used for basic (X)HTML/CSS is BBEdit. And from a functionality standpoint you Read more
In this entry, I’ll demonstrate some useful tips on how to embed a blog into pre-existing website. Before, we begin I’ll assume two things: that you know at least a little bit of PHP and that have already installed WordPress Read more