Posts in the Web Standards category

• London Web Standards Group meet-up

  13 July 2010 by Clive Walker

  Yesterday evening, I attended a London Web Standards Group meeting which was a Q and A with Andy Budd about UX. The meeting took place in a pub called the The Square Pig and about 40-50 people turned up.

• New web standards books from Zeldman and Budd

  30 September 2009 by Clive Walker

  There are new editions of Designing with Web Standards by Jeffery Zeldman and CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd coming along in the next few months

• Why web standards should be important to clients

  22 June 2009 by Clive Walker

  There's a nice summary of the benefits of web standards in an article called Tell your clients why web standards should matter to them on the That Web Guy Blog.

• Table layouts compared with CSS layouts

  15 April 2009 by Clive Walker

  There's a good article over at Smashing Magazine called Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell? which discusses the pros and cons of different website layout methods.

• Web standards anyone?

  19 March 2009 by Clive Walker

  A few years ago I attended and reported a Web Standards Group London meeting where Andy Budd gave an interesting presentation about web standards, including why he thought that the web standards ‘war’ [or promotion of web standards] had reached a ‘tipping point’ [the ‘war’ was won], and why modern web designers and developers should be focusing more on other areas like usability. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

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• Learning about CSS

  05 October 2008 by Clive Walker

  I was doing some Dreamweaver tuition the other day and my student asked if I could recommend some simple online tutorials or learning resources for CSS.

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• Versioning for IE8

  23 January 2008 by Clive Walker

  There's a lot of debate in the web design/development/standards world at the moment about a proposed new feature in Internet Explorer 8 as described in this issue of A List Apart and...

• Web standards in the bedroom?

  21 August 2007 by Clive Walker

  I came across the Noise to Signal website recently. The blog has some funny cartoons drawn by Rob Cottingham.

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• POSHify your website

  23 April 2007 by Clive Walker

  I came across the term POSH recently and discovered the POSH home page. This seems to be a 'subgroup' of the 'web standards movement' and is the basis from which microformats are built.

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• Sussex geeks clash with London Web Standards Group

  14 February 2007 by Clive Walker

  I am planning to attend the 9th Sussex Geek Dinner (where Geoff Adams will talk abut Expression Engine) on 28th February but now find that it clashes with the London WSG meeting

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