How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 3: A Quick Aside on Organizing Files

This won’t be the longest entry in this series, but I did want to take a second to outline the way I organize files. You can come up with your own scheme. There are many. This one works for me, so I use it. The basic idea is to keep everything in a logical, easy […]

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 […]

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 […]