Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML and CSS

September 24th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in CSS, HTML
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In the early days of the web, when people first started properly to embrace the technology , to publish homepages, and to develop online corporate presences for their companies, they all realized fairly quickly that the medium was quite limiting. Necessity is the mother of invention, though. People began to coax out of their web pages tricks and displays that were never intended by the technologies they used, and the browsers helped them along the way by adding features that offered even more opportunities for this kind of behavior. More »


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Refactoring HTML

July 25th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in HTML

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In just over a decade the Web has gone from a technology with promise to major part of the world’s infrastructure. It’s been a fascinating time, and many useful resources have been built in the process. But, as with any technology, we’ve learned as we go how best to use it and the technology itself has matured to help us use it better.

However complex a web application, it finally hits the glass in the form of HTML—the universal web page description language. HTML is a computer language, albeit a very limited and specialized one. As such, if you want a system that you can evolve easily over time, you need to pay attention to writing HTML that is clear and understandable. But just like any computer language, or indeed any writing at all, it’s hard to get it right first time. Clear code comes from writing and rewriting with a determination to create something that is easy to follow. More »