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 […]

Starter Assets

I just wanted to point folks to the small project I started on Google code- Starter Assets. It’s based on some work I did at Cramer to standardize the development process there. The idea was to provide a standard set of files and a standard file/folder structure for people to start with whenever they were […]

My Presentation From Last Night’s JavaScript Meetup

Here’s the link I promised: JavaScript 101: Adding Interactivity to Your Site Using the World’s Most Popular Programming Language *A note on the title- I’m just repeating what Douglas Crockford said. To remix the quote about IBM, no JavaScript developer ever got fired for quoting Douglas Crockford** **Don’t quote me on that Again, I want […]

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 at NERD this week.