Recent Reading (node.js, P3PC, Event Delegation, Twitter)

After relaunching my personal site and realizing all my other sites are in pretty good shape for the first time in forever, I’ve suddenly found myself with plenty of free “tech time” to mess around with whatever I want to mess around with. Which is cool, because, while I appreciate being able to tinker in […]

I’m Going to be Speaking on Front End Performance in May

There’s always a slide about performance in my presentations. This time? Every slide will be about performance. I’m chomping at the bit to get started on this one. The Bocoup guys were crazy enough to invite me down to talk about my favorite topic- front end performance. Here’s the write up: Front End Performance for […]

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 structure your HTML so it makes sense from and organizational standpoint and so that you […]

DrunkenFist.com Redesign Launched. More HTML5 Goodness.

I launched the redesign of DrunkenFist.com last night. It’s my second HTML5 site. I took a lot of what I learned from the work we did on A Wider Net and applied it to a much larger project. Fun times. A couple of notes.

How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 4: The Body

The body is clearly going to take a while, since it contains all of the content on the page. I’ll be breaking it out into chunks. This first post will focus on how I use the body tag itself. I generally use the body tag to hold basic information about the page to use with […]