Posts in the Web Standards category

• Microformats meeting in London

  11 October 2006 by Clive Walker

  After hearing about Microformats in the lunchbreak at d.Construct 2006 last month, I'm looking forward to the Web Standards Group London meeting with a Microformats theme on 19th October

• Using microformats and hCard

  15 September 2006 by Clive Walker

  After seeing microformats described with some passion by Jeremy Keith during the lunchbreak at d.Construct 2006 last week, I decided to add a simple hCard microformat to a couple of websites

• Using Zoundry with Textpattern

  12 September 2006 by Clive Walker

  Following on from the previous post, I am also trying out Zoundry as a blog editor.

• Valid (X)HTML, Dreamweaver and unencoded ampersands

  04 August 2006 by Clive Walker

  One of the reasons why a webpage might not pass the W3C markup validation test is unencoded ampersands in the link URLs. This can often happen with links provided by affiliate schemes. You copy and paste the link code into your valid (X)HTML page and, lo and behold, the page no longer validates. Well, Dreamweaver can help.

• Web Standards Group meeting report

  17 July 2006 by Clive Walker

  I attended the WSG London meeting a few days ago. There were two entertaining presentations by Andy Budd and Christian Heilmann.

• New web standards website

  17 April 2006 by Clive Walker

  Bite Size Standards is a new website offering “concise web development tutorials, tips and tricks".

• Web standards in a nutshell

  08 April 2006 by Clive Walker

  Natalie Jost has published a neat diagram showing web standards in a nutshell. I'd never really thought about the separation of content from presentation from behaviour in a pictorial or diagrammatic form before – but this is a neat way of showing it!

• Validate HTML with a Firefox extension

  13 January 2006 by Clive Walker

  Have you ever wanted to validate your HTML whilst previewing web pages on your PC? Are you curious about the HTML validity of other websites? Now you can do both using this Firefox extension.

• Streamline your website code

  11 December 2005 by Clive Walker

  One reason for moving to a CSS-based website layout is to streamline the website code. This has a number of advantages….

• Why use web standards?

  06 December 2005 by Clive Walker

  Roger Johansson at 456 Berea Street has published Ten Reasons to Learn and Use Web Standards.

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