How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 10: Forms

Forms. Forms are boring. 75% of all work you do with forms is exactly like all the rest of the work you do with forms. BO-RING. But, they’re the gateway to making real money on the web, so they’re kind of important. Hopefully, after today you’ll know all about forms and will love them. Let’s […]

How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 9: Tag (and Attribute) Soup

In case you were wondering, I’ve got two more posts after this one and then I’m moving onto CSS and JavaScript. I’ve got a post on forms (which I’ve been avoiding because forms feel like work) and then a post on the new HTML5 elements and then that’s it. Writing about CSS and JavaScript will […]

You Probably Didn’t Notice – This Site is Now HTML5

I did the conversion last week. As I’ve talked about blogs and HTML5 are so natural the whole conversion probably took no more than 8 hours. Of course, that 8 hours was spread out over a few days. Which is one of the big reasons I didn’t post anything last week. I was busy getting […]

How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 7: Best Practices for Lists (UL, OL, DL)

Lists! They might seem boring, but if you look at a lot of site source code (good sites at least,) you’ll see a lot of lists. A lot of obvious content on the net is in the form of lists (which is why there are three separate constructions for them) and a few years ago […]