Category Archives: HTML
HTML specific posts
How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 10: Forms
Forms. Forms are boring. 75% of all work you do with forms is exactly like all the rest of the work you do with forms. BO-RING. But, they’re the gateway to making real money on the web, so they’re kind … Continue reading
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 9: Tag (and Attribute) Soup
In case you were wondering, I’ve got two more posts after this one and then I’m moving onto CSS and JavaScript. I’ve got a post on forms (which I’ve been avoiding because forms feel like work) and then a post … Continue reading
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 8: Tables!
Before I jump into the proper way to use tables, I’m going to share an anecdote that should bring a smile to the face of anyone who’s done this stuff for a while. A few months ago I was both … Continue reading
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 7: Best Practices for Lists (UL, OL, DL)
Lists! They might seem boring, but if you look at a lot of site source code (good sites at least,) you’ll see a lot of lists. A lot of obvious content on the net is in the form of lists … Continue reading
How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 6: Best Practices for Common HTML Elements (IMG, A)
We’ll finish up our tour of the body tag with several posts featuring general notes about common content elements. I’ll be taking my time with these as getting this stuff right will go a long way towards getting the most … Continue reading
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 5: The Body – How To Structure Your Markup
Five posts in and finally we get to the heart of the matter- getting your content onto the page for your users to enjoy. This will be done in two parts. This, the first part, will deal with how to … Continue reading
I’m on TV. WordPress.TV That Is.
You’ve all seen this, but now here it is from the official channel. Speaking of WordPress and HTML5, I’m knee deep in the process of getting DrunkenFist.com relaunched and I’ve been doing the WordPress component for the past few days. … Continue reading
How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 2: The Head
Last time out we looked at the Anatomy of a Web Page. Using that, let’s move on and look at the first of the two major sections, the head. For the sake of this blog post, the head includes two … Continue reading
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Video of My HTML5 + WordPress Presentation From WordCamp Boston
And here it is: Slides. Just in time for me to do it all over again tonight at the Boston JavaScript Meetup. Well, not completely all over again as it’s a new presentation tonight, but it’ll still be two times … Continue reading
HTML5 + WordPress Resource Links From my WordCamp Boston Presentation
Owing to the contrast on the A/V system, my last slide was illegible, so here are all the links that folks couldn’t see. The presentation itself: HTML5 + WordPress And the resource links: The working group http://www.whatwg.org/ Mark Pilgrim’s HTML5 … Continue reading