Right now I am knee deep in HTML 5, CSS 3 and all related topics to support the new edition of HTML: The Complete Reference. Usually I don’t share too much about the sausage making that goes on during one of these massive efforts, but after hearing a few comments from students I [...]

Designers and coders alike commonly overlook the importance of anchor tags and their styling on a web page. Aside from accessibility for a moment, developers often miss the visual usability of some links on a page. From main navigation to external references, links cover a wide range of behaviors and can be styled to visually [...]

Infrastructure both online and offline becomes outdated or outmoded, and the core protocol of Web transmission – HTTP – is no exception. For years, Web developers have been both successful and stymied by this simple, stateless protocol. For example, consider the issue of authentication under HTTP. Basic Authentication should be familiar to [...]

Text can be a tricky thing to design for the web; there are many limitations and misunderstandings about the presentation of it. It’s important to understand these limitations and manage the visual expectations fairly and accurately.

Every time we hear the exclamation “we’re going to use XML” a small shiver runs through our collective technical spines. What exactly did the speaker mean by this statement? Did they mean they planned on using a well known XML-based vocabulary or language to store their data? Or maybe they meant they were [...]