Let's Build the Web We Want
It does. Why? Well, I’ve been doing this job, at a very high level, for a long time and I couldn’t code this by hand if you paid me $50,000: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> I understand it, and I can’t remember it. That’s basically gibberish to most people. There’s no way […]
Mashable broke the story earlier today and withing a couple of hours Microsoft launched bing.com/twitter Web 2.0 Summit. First impression? I don’t like the look of the tag cloud. C’Mon, Microsoft, you can be cooler than that. One thing I do like is the timing of it as I just wrote a big-ass article on […]
Since I run so many content-centric sites, I’ve never really had much use for Google Analytics’ goals. It’s one thing when you’re doing lead generation or ecommerce. Those goals are clear and easy to define. Someone filled out a form? Goal reached. Someone hit a thank you page for purchasing a book? Goal reached. For […]
The following is a test of this page of unstyled, generic markup performed in 81 browsers. I used browsercam to take screen captures, then imported the resulting captures into Photoshop. In Photoshop, I zeroed out the top/left coordinates of the HTML canvas (not to be confused with the Canvas element,) and then set the Opacity […]
The following is what we use to lay down the most common text styles. This is honestly more than we usually need, but it helps ensure we don’t miss anything when real content is flowed into a design. I thought it might be useful for folks to use in their own projects. I’ve got a […]