My Year in Activities, 2011

Or: 43 things that make someone who has no idea about anything he’s doing look like he knows everything, the 2011 edition.

Post from December 31, 2011, filed under Adventure.

On Semantics in HTML

As web developers we like to talk about “semantic markup,” a somehow inaccurate short form for “markup that is meaningful and used how it’s supposed to be used.” But where is all that meaning coming from? Let’s take a look.

Post from October 26, 2011, filed under Web Development.

Print Style Sheets and URLs

Print style sheets are awesome. They’re easy to write, too. Site owners and developers who care about print typically know what to do. Alas there’s one thing that’s done rather the wrong than in any right way: printing URLs…

Post from June 14, 2011, filed under Web Development and Art and Design.

Web Development Principles: Develop for What Is, Not What Could Be

For any given project, web developers fare best when focusing on what is, not what could be. To fend off the first misunderstandings, that focus includes what absolutely will be…

Post from June 7, 2011, filed under Web Development.

Exposing Reset Style Sheets

Releasing a cute little Chrome extension to highlight CSS misconceptions.

Post from May 15, 2011, filed under Web Development.

Driving: Tips and Thoughts

It’s time for a helpful, heart-warming, loving post about driving.

Post from May 11, 2011, filed under Everything Else.

On Correct Punctuation

Let’s speak the unspeakable: Correct punctuation, here referring to the use of the correct characters for quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes, and ellipses, will forever remain a dream online…

Post from April 7, 2011, filed under Art and Design.

HTML, @width, and @height

As the width and height attributes are to remain part of HTML, limit their use. The reason to avoid @width and @height is that they are presentational and hence constitute potential maintainability issues.

Post from February 17, 2011, filed under Web Development.

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