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Jens Meiert (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) on professional web design, web development, accessibility, and usability. Researching and describing what makes the perfect website since 1999.
The Greatest Secret in Web Design
Alright I cheated, this isn’t really a secret for professionals. Or an open secret. Or whatever. It’s that web design is a process. Good web design is an ongoing endeavour; and thus, excellent web design an expensive undertaking …
WDR #2: Web Developers Needed for a Website
The Web Dev Report, issue #2, this time featuring a classic situation.
How to Uncover Pseudo-Standardistas
There is a growing and annoying trend that not quite supports healthy attempts for more accessible, faster, more maintainable, and best practice web development: Pseudo-Standardistas. There are several ways to unmask pseudos …
WDR #1: Versioned Style Sheets
Ladies and gents, all I present’s … the Web Dev Report, issue #1.
5 CSS Tips Every Web Developer Should Know About
Of all the many tips this site already shares, these might still be special, so let’s quickly scan them that might be considered essential for every web developer when it comes to Cascading Style Sheets. Main focus: Maintainability, differently.
Merged RSS Feed for German Readers
A new merged feed featuring all entries of my site, be they English or German, is finally available due to Yahoo Pipes. Since both parts of my site are different in several regards, including separate feeds, English-speaking German readers tended to subscribe to two feeds which isn’t really great …
Website Optimization Measures, Part V
Almost half a year since my last article in that regard it’s about time to present version 5 of some random website optimization measures hopefully being great for your site as well. Short and crispy, to use some equally random German saying …
Thoughts on Disclaimers
How awesome that this seems to be most popular in Germany: Disclaimers on both websites and emails. Quite recently I came across the German Wikipedia article on disclaimers which talks about the topic in some detail, and I could not but go for yet another “thoughts” post …
An Exercise for Emerging CSS Experts: Avoid IDs and Classes
To gain more expertise with CSS, there’s a great albeit probably unsurprising tip to share: Try avoiding IDs and classes altogether. That’s right, write your markup without any IDs and classes …
The Most Annoying Yet Almost Most Important Task in Professional Website Management
… is link checking. There are tools out there, en masse, however, it is just annoying to run after so-called professionals who neither know about simplest online rules nor how to set up redirects (but dare to waste other people’s time) …
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