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I Added Keyboard Navigation to my Site
Kind of a fun little exercise. Now I just need to figure out a nice way to hint to people that they can navigate with the keyboard. Check it out. Start here and hit your right arrow key until you … Continue reading
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 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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Browser Size, a Simple But Useful Tool From Google
Browser Size does just what the name implies. Enter a URL, hit “go” and you’ll see just what percentage of the internet will see what without scrolling. Scrolling isn’t quite the bugbear it once was, but for certain types of … Continue reading
Why I Dumped Tweetdeck For Brizzly
I upgraded to Tweetdeck 0.3.0 and I was almost immediately looking for an alternative. There are a few reasons for that (the disappearing columns bug, watching it auto-shorten an already short url) but the biggest issue was the change they … Continue reading
I Don’t Care About Developers. I Care About Users.
Okay, okay… I’m guilty. The title is provocative and slightly misleading. I do care about developers. Developers are my people and I want nothing but the best for them. That said, when I’m sitting down planning a site, application or … Continue reading