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Jens Meiert (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) on professional web design, web development, accessibility, and usability. Researching and describing what makes the perfect website since 1999.
Website Optimization Measures, Part IV
Once again, though already covering a few weeks of various improvements. Some have been taken place in Bremen, others in Zurich, all on one or more of my sites. Anyway, enjoy some additional tips, this time roughly touching typography, usability, SEO, and web development with performance focus …
The World’s Best HTML Template
… again, exclusively, and as long as HTML 5 matures.
Tip: Coral CDN
Quick tip for low-budget sites targeting more than one country or language and not using a server farm: Coral CDN, a free content distribution network. To use it just append “.nyud.net” to the host name of absolute URIs to images, style sheets, and what you’d enjoy as well …
Why “Reset” Style Sheets Are Bad
Okay, Jonathan set the pace, Eric countered, a few people carried on, and me, officially having announced comprehensive reset and undo style sheet criticism in January, feels finally obliged to politely point out that reset style sheets are bad: A novice should not use them, an expert would not use them …
Standardistas, Help Fix Wikipedia
When it comes to professional web design and web development, not only the English Wikipedia is in questionable condition. And considering the value Wikipedia has as a contact point for rubbernecks and novices, it should be in our best interest to take care of …
Relocation, Again
Distracted for about one week.
CSS: All Properties from CSS 1 to CSS 3
What would HTML be without CSS? And what is an index of all HTML elements without an index of all CSS properties? To fix the latter I indeed proudly present a continuously updated index of all properties specified in CSS 1, CSS 2, CSS 2.1, and even CSS 3, including all initial values as well …
The 10 Design Theses of Dieter Rams
Moving up industrial design on my agenda and studying the work of German top designer Dieter Rams, who was responsible for the mostly great design of Braun products for about 30 years, I considered it to be useful to bring up his design theses again …
Webdesign mit CSS: And the Winner Is …
Presenting the book raffle winner, photos of the gala, and survey results!
Microsoft and Interoperability: The Hidden Threat
Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles are not only a nice read, they’re in fact a great signal. I could stop writing now if there wasn’t at least one thing that raises doubts though, namely the “Extensions” passage under “Support for Standards” …
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