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Personal and professional rants on the state of the web today. Largely focussed on CSS, Accessibility, Search Engine Optimisation and Javascript.

June 7, 2007

The Miseducation of SEO

Another example of a search engine professional that chooses to ignore modern web development practices, to avoid researching facts before writing about them and assists in spreading SEO propaganda to the masses. Let me present you with the facts…

June 3, 2007

The Slow Erosion of XHTML

What the hell is happening to XHTML? With mainstream web standards uptake, maturing standardistas, WHAT Working Group specifications and Google heavily influencing our industry with total disregard for best practice web development I see a dismal future for XHTML.

April 26, 2007

Microformats make HTML go POSH

Web 2.0 Expo has turned out some new thoughts on Plain Old Semantic HTML and how to approach it. The new approach is all about the acronym and spreading the word to the masses. Can POSH take on it’s bigger buzzword cousins, AJAX and Microformats?

April 17, 2007

The People Behind the Posts - The Personalities of Blogging

Personalities behind the blogs are what make you read them, bookmark them, add them to your RSS reader and tell all your geek friends about them. What if you meet one of these bloggers finally and this totally changes your perspective of their online presence? For some, it does…

April 3, 2007

How Not To Lose A Kickass In-House Design Team

It might not be so easy to build up a kickass in-house design team, but what happens when you do? Is it all usability, design and development bliss from here on? Read some tips on how not to lose this kickass in-house design team.

March 3, 2007

Google is not responsible for your health.

Will Google ever support accessibility and web standards compliance by rewarding websites in the search engine results? Perhaps it’s not even their place to do so…

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