XHTML

November 3, 2007

Alt text and form buttons set as images

There is something I always used to forget, and I didn’t realise this until a website I developed in the past was the recipient of a very comprehensive, postmortem accessibility review.
I am quite pleased to say the majority of the results were decent. The pedantic standardista in me had in fact hacked up the correct [...]

October 13, 2007

SEU, Search Engine Useless

Lately I have been asked again and again, “What can I do to improve my rankings in Google?”. This is a bit of a loaded question, but one I always attempt to answer when I am dealing with anything search related.
I usually begin with a quick glance at the website using the 30 second test, [...]

August 4, 2007

Notes on Design - Semantics

Articles on Notes on Design. What is semantic HTML and how do we apply it to our websites?

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.