This morning I was perusing the links for light reading sent by Russ from the WSG when I came across this article: Insert HTML page into another HTML page, where the author had discovered a way to use the object element instead of iframes to display third party content within…
In a recent post on 456 Berea Street, Jeff Croft made a very valid comment suggesting that using JavaScript to create invalid markup was no better than writing invalid markup in the first place. This is something I totally agree with. The rising popularity of JavaScript following the buzz surrounding…
When I started my current job, Rentokil's web development team were producing non-semantic, part table-based, with a mixture of CSS with in-line styling and font tags. As I had not been there long I didn't want to be too pushy about my own ideas so I settled down to doing…
Learning to develop web-sites using web standards is a bit like learning the guitar, it's fairly easy to get started but to master it takes years of hard work and learning. With the right approach you can become more efficient. Content first Historically I would have started a project by…
Today the new Rentokil Initial web-site was launched. Well done to all of the people that played a part in putting this site together. (Quick plug for everyone's personal sites there!) We have also been featured in Stylegala which is a great result. After Tim and I got the chance…
When I started my current job, I guessed that I would have to leave my own thoughts on standards at the door, as the majority of work was being done using html 4 loose, with table layouts, part external/part inline styles and inline javascript (uggghhh!). 4-5 months later and…
Having been creating a lot of webpages recently, I realised that I am so much better off having made the switch to and-coding rather than using WYSIWYG editors. I have used Dreamweaver since version 4 and whilst I don't have anything against it writing pages in a text editor gives…
I happened across Jeffrey Zeldman's new site yesterday www.zeldman.com I'm pretty sure he is always working out the next redesign! It's looking pretty tasty though; nice colour scheme and completely compliant with current web standards - of Course :-) In any case there seems to be a large…