Learn something about making Web Sites. These articles are for anyone involved in using, designing or building them.
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Don’t be an anti-semantic ...
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I often get the feeling that there are many people who hear the word ‘Semantics’ mentioned by Front End Designers in passing but don’t really know what it means. Rather than go straight into Web Semantics & how this relates …
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Clients, Users, Browsers ...
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I spend an enourmous amount of time with browsers and knit picking the designs I build to fit them all. During the build process and my fleeting (and sometimes more than fleeting) visits to outdated browsers such as Internet Explorer …
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jQuery Multiple Filter ...
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For far too long I’ve been writing blog posts with way too much whimsy and outspoken statements about the Industry. Lately I have been much more focused on actually creating useful things. I feel so much more positive about my …
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Front End Design, where’s the line? ...
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Lots of high profile Web Industry Pro’s describe Front End Design/Development (what ever else you want to call it) as ‘Responsible for View Source’ and I tend to agree. We often have exposure to things outside the HTML arena though. …
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Semantics – Screencast #1 ...
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I’ve gone and done it. My first foray into the world of screencasting. It took me since around September last year to set everything up (including a pretty major system upgrade). Another big challenge was to achieve a smooth and …
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Get the System out of your System ...
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Let me start off by saying that I am a very deep thinker and it has been said that I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve. I’m not ashamed of this and it is part of who I …
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FOUT – What’s that all about? ...
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What is FOUT? Flash Of Unstyled Text is a phenomenon that occurs in some browsers when using the @font-face rule in css. The @font-face rule as I’m sure most professional Front End Designers already know, is one of the most …
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The Advertising Riddle ...
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If you’re anything like me, you like reading blogs and other online content to learn things, be inspired and have a nice experience while you’re doing it. I was recently told about an article over at Usability post called ‘a …
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Web Standards – So What? ...
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The Web has been around for a good few years now. Most people are aware of it, if not using it in their every day lives. It has come a long way since the early nineties when Web pages consisted …
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WYGIWYS – What You Get Isn’t What ...
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There are many discussions going on at the moment, on the subject of whether it is better to Redesign your old site from scratch or adopt a strategy of making seemingly small visual changes throughout the design of your site. …
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jQuery page recognition menu & accordian ...
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View the entire menu in action If you are a Front End Developer who gets frustrated, working with back end system where you can never seem to have fine control over the menu design. With the following technique, you should …
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Progressive Enhancement is a good thing ...
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The Web of today is changing. Whether we, as Web professionals, like it or not. There are currently about 10 browsers (taking into account versions, which often differ from each other) on the market within which Web sites need to …
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