“Web Development” Archive
Website Optimization Measures, Part III
Jens on quality assurance again, this week featuring the link richness challenge, updated ping service lists, improved WordPress plugins and security, revised layout grids, font karaoke, and more prominent update information. Hot and spicy as always.
Great CSS Techniques and the Simple Truth Behind Them
There is a simple recipe to judge CSS techniques: Does the method in question require HTML additions and modifications beyond introducing certain IDs or classes? If yes, the technique is likely to be not very elegant, in fact, it might be inadvisable, depending on the strictness you’re applying …
Win a Signed Copy of “Webdesign mit CSS”
I am giving away a free yet signed copy of my German book Webdesign mit CSS – and you know what’s in the 2nd edition :) Winning is easy even though I want to get to know you a little bit better: Just write down your favorite football club and your postal address, then email jens(at)meiert.com …
The Secret of Maintainability
Keep it simple.
Compatibility and IE 8, Again
After massive, legitimate criticism and concerns, there is a happy end: Microsoft decided against the “opt-in to the browser version I tested with” strategy and had Dean Hachamovitch announce that IE8 will show pages requesting “Standards” mode in IE8’s Standards mode …
“helvetica, arial”, Not “arial, helvetica”
Unless Arial really is your standard font, please use the order helvetica, arial in your CSS font declarations, not the popular arial, helvetica. Why? Because Arial basically still means kind of a copy of Helvetica, and Helvetica is ubiquitous or popular enough so that one can actually reference it …
Website Optimization Measures, Part II
Now that we talked about blog clean-ups, structure and element revisions as well as search engine verification in part I, here are some additional suggestions, small measures for improvement consisting of .htaccess stuff, SEO, and consistency checks …
Website Optimization Measures, Part I
Permanent focus on QA includes more thorough website revisions from time to time, and that does certainly not mean a “redesign” or “relaunch”. This week I spent a lot of time analyzing, refactoring, and optimizing some of my private sites, and I thought I’d quickly share a few of these things …
CSS: Selector Variables
Especially complex projects suffer from higher cost of selector changes, and long sequences of simple selectors do impact the understandability and efficiency of style sheets. One solution might be selector variables or “synonyms”, a concept I proposed to the CSS Working Group yesterday …
What Makes a Professional Web Developer?
I’m asking: How should novice web developers learn the craft to build technologically high-quality websites? As professional web developers, we might (finally) help by providing necessary preconditions and basic tips in order to lay the foundation for better web development education …
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