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Speed Up Your CSS

Elliot Swan has posted a great article on how to speed up your css development. Check it out

Article: What’s Next? The Same Thing! @ The Autistic Cuckoo

Many ask what web standards are. Here’s the list that web standards prevent.

Web Standards prevent:

• lack a specified document type,
• contain invalid (X)HTML,
• use tables for layout,
• require a particular browser to work,
• require client-side scripting to work,
• require third-party products such as Flash to work,
• cannot be used by people with disabilities,
• are semantically meaningless,
• are unnecessarily heavy to download, thereby also placing unnecessary load
  on the server,
• force links to … Continue Reading
  

Article: Jason Santa Maria | Grey Box Methodology

Great article on the methodology of designing a web site. You start with pen and paper freeing yourself of technology to create a design. Next you move on to Illustrator using the ‘Gray Box Methodology”. This step allows you to create a perfect functional layout without worrying about which font works best or which color to use. You have a simply grayscale layout to look at. Then you finally move on to implementing the CSS / XHTML / FLASH / PHOTOSHOP graphics and coding at the end … Continue Reading

If you’ve been doing web design for the past few years and just recently learned about web standards, welcome. Let’s get started.

• What’s CSS
• XHTML
• W3C Validation
• Get Started!

What’s CSS?
What happens when you say to someone, ‘I do web development’? Their answer is, “Yeah, I learned that h… t… m… l…. once.” Well good for them, they know how to make tables… with frontpage. Why am I telling you this? Well because people think that HTML is the design language of them web. Wrong. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets that allows an xhtml page of … Continue Reading

Still debating the fact of whether or not CSS is worthwhile. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets that allows an xhtml page of content to be formatted. An example you say? Check out www.cssvault.com.

Going from pure flash sites to pure CSS sites is quite an overhaul. Taken the fact that Flash is completely ‘on-the-fly’ versus the static nature of css, it will be hard to decide which is better. Conforming to universal standards is always a plus, such as the W3 standards of CSS.

Right now the main plus of CSS is fast, and I mean … Continue Reading