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6: Information Architecture - Planning out a web site
By Jonathan Lane · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 7
Before you even start building a web site, you really need to plan out its overall structure first, working out how many pages you need, which ones link together, etc. This forms the basis of Information Architecture, a discipline that Jon Lane will get you up to speed on in this article. Read more…
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5: Web standards – beautiful dream, but what's the reality?
By Jonathan Lane · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 3
The ideal of using web standards and best practices, for a more inter-operable, maintainable, accessible web is a good one to try to get as close to as possible in all sites you create. So why then is it that much of the web is still built using bad, outdated practices? In this article Jon Lane explores the reality of web standards usage, and look at why the Web is like this. Read more…
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4: The Web standards model - HTML, CSS and JavaScript
By Jonathan Lane · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 25
In this part of the curriculum, Jon Lane will take you through the web standards model, explaining how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript should be used on a typical web page, the three-tier model of content, presentation and behavior, and why it is a recognized best practice on the Web today. Read more…
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3: How does the Internet work?
By Jonathan Lane · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 79
This article explains how the Web works, broadly speaking. It covers the means by which web pages are downloaded from a server into your web browser, and what types of technology are available for creating web pages. Read more…
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2: The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards
By Mark Norman Francis · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 5
When learning about web development, it is useful to know where the Web as a whole entity came from, and how web standards were agreed on and developed. In this article Mark Norman-Francis does just that, looking at the Web's early origins, the browser wars, and the formation of the W3C and the rise of web standards. Read more…
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Fonts for web design: a primer
By CraigGrannell · Thursday, July 3, 2008 21
This article provides a useful guide to all the fonts commonly available across platforms, which are therefore appropriate for use on web sites by designers. Read more…
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Applying color tints to web pages with SVG filters and JavaScript
By Ruud Steltenpool · Thursday, July 3, 2008 7
In this article Ruud Steltenpool presents a very interesting experiment of his that allows you to change web page colours on the fly using SVG and JavaScript - the solution makes use of feColorMatrix, linearGradient and foreignObject, and is packaged up as bookmarklets to allow end-users to easily make use of it. Read more…
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A browser sniffing warning: The trouble with Acid3 and TinyMCE
By Hallvord R. M. Steen · Thursday, July 3, 2008 9
In this article Hallvord Steen provides a warning about browser sniffing and why it is such a bad thing, by examining a recent bug discovered in Opera relating to compatibility with the TinyMCE editor. He also suggests a fix to this problem, involving "bug detection", a useful technique that can be applied to many other situations. Read more…