Recent Reading (Analytics, WordPress Short Codes, Jira, JavaScript Videos, Protocol Relative URLS, Facebook)

There’s a lot of content this week, including about 5 hours of video embedded right in the page for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy. Analytics – The Usability Lab of the new decade Peter Merholz from Adaptive Path talks up analytics. Don’t I feel like a smart guy with all my fancy analytics experience? That’s probably […]

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 pieces of code that are actually before the head. Sue me 🙂 Using the head […]

Let Me Direct You to the Quote of the Week.

I have a real post queued up to go in an hour or two. To tide you over until then, I present the web development quote of the week: Since my attempts at capturing web developers’ hearts and minds by publishing fundamental research have failed miserably but my thirst for attention continues unabated, today I […]

How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 1: The Anatomy of an HTML Page

HTML + CSS + JavaScript = Content + Style + Behavior This the one of the guiding principles of the way I make sites. We want to keep our content/data, in the form of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code, neatly separated from the rules that tell the browser what it’s supposed to look like, in […]

How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 0: Introduction

Well, I leaked it earlier this week, so I might as well get started. Welcome to How to Make a Web Site the Modern Way, a blog series outlining, to the best of my ability. how to build an HTML page using today’s best practices. The focus won’t be on specific coding techniques, although there […]