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CSS Guides

March 4, 2008 in Guides, Site Development, Web Developer, Web Standards by mark | No comments

CSS: Style Sheet Guidelines

Web applications should always adhere to W3C standards and validate correctly. Numerous excellent CSS style Guides are available that discuss the how-tos of achieving these objectives, below are a few:

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Web Specifications

March 3, 2008 in Guides, Web Developer, Web Standards by mark | No comments

For the future, to add presentational effects and Web page style, validate documents at the HTML 4.0 level (for the cleanest possible markup), so pages contain little or no HTML 3.2 presentational markup or proprietary stylistic hacks, and use the World Wide Web Consortium ‘ s Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language to add stylistic effects to your pages.

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Design Resources

March 3, 2008 in Guides, Site Development, Web Developer by mark | No comments

Top Ten Resources

  • Designing For Multiple Browsers Without Being Bland
    A concise, sober, and BRIEF description of a good Web authoring strategy. Other fine articles by the author include What You See is Not What Others Get and Widen Your Web Site ‘ s Audience . Stephen Traub.
  • Getting Started with HTML
    A primer to Learning HTML 3.2 by Examples , this is a comprehensive and succinct Guide to writing standard HTML.
  • Web Site Design Tips
    Web site design tips for the beginner to the expert. A great collection of classic web site design tips that will build a strong foundation for any new web designer. /a>
  • The Web Design Group Reference Section
    Excellent background information and technical details on HTML authoring. Web Design Group.
  • Designing for The Web
    A series of informative articles on Web site design, including A Web Site is a Harsh Mistress & Rules of Thumb. The special focus is on complementing Web design skills with competence in interface design . Don ‘ t miss Web Site Design. Diane Wilson.
  • Useit.com: Usable Information Technology
    An expansive resource on usability and user interface issues – - featuring several extremely challenging and well-researched essays on Web design and style. Jakob Nielsen.
  • Understanding HTML
    An outstanding presentation of HTML basics by an Australian with a fine writing style. Dianne Gorman.
  • Hints for Web Authors
    A short yet insightful historical analysis of conventional vs.web publishing , Hints for Web Authors is replete with solid recommendations on how to succeed with the latter, including a few pragmatic suggestions mixed in there for good measure, “… in hopes that others may find ‘ em useful. ” Warren Steel.
  • Dan’s Web Tips
    This huge resource contains a balanced summary review of most of today ‘ s important Web authoring topics. Daniel Tobias.
  • HyperText Markup Language
    World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) home page for HTML. Here you will find pointers to specifications for HTML, guidelines for how to use HTML to the best effect and pointers to related work at W3C. W3C.

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Accessibility Guidelines

March 3, 2008 in Guides, Site Development, Web Developer, Web Standards by mark | No comments

Accessibility Guidelines and Tools

Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites ” Quick Tips ” introduce key concepts of accessible Web design. Please note that these are not complete guidelines.
Web Accessibility Quick Reference A document created by AmbientWebs ‘ s Web Services to provide a summary of the items that must be done to accomplish web accessibility using the priorities established by WAI.
WebXact WebXact is a web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities. The Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) offers WebXact as a free public service in order to further its mission to expand opportunities for people with disabilities through the innovative uses of computer technology. To analyze a web page, type in the URL of the page that you want WebXact to examine and select Submit. WebXact will display a report indicating any accessibility and / or browser compatibility errors found on the page.
Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 This list of checkpoints is divided up into THREE levels of priorities.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 This is a very long document which outlines all of the guidelines. If you prefer to digest them all at once, you can read this entire document.
Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 While Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 strives to be a stable document (as a W3C Recommendation), this document is expected to evolve as technologies change and content developers discover more effective techniques for designing accessible pages.
   

Other Web Accessibility Resource Links

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Web Standards Checklist

March 2, 2008 in Guides, Site Development, Web Standards by mark | No comments

From the original article by:
Russ Weakley
13-August-04

Web standards – more than just ‘ table-free sites ‘

The term web standards can mean different things to different people. For some, it is ‘ table-free sites ‘, for others it is ‘ using valid code ‘. However, web standards are much broader than that. A site built to web standards should adhere to standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, DOM, MathML, SVG etc) and pursue best practices (valid code, accessible code, semantically correct code, user-friendly URLs etc).

In other words, a site built to web standards should ideally be lean, clean, CSS-based, accessible, usable and search engine friendly .

About the checklist

This is not an uber-checklist. There are probably many items that could be added. More importantly, it should not be seen as a list of items that must be addressed on every site that you develop. It is simply a Guide that can be used:

  • to show the breadth of web standards
  • as a handy tool for developers during the production phase of websites
  • as an aid for developers who are interested in moving towards web standards

The checklist

  1. Quality of code
    1. Does the site use a correct Doctype?
    2. Does the site use a Character set?
    3. Does the site use Valid (X)HTML?
    4. Does the site use Valid CSS?
    5. Does the site use any CSS hacks?
    6. Does the site use unnecessary classes or ids?
    7. Is the code well structured?
    8. Does the site have any broken links?
    9. How does the site perform in terms of speed/page size?
    10. Does the site have JavaScript errors?
  2. Degree of separation between content and presentation
    1. Does the site use CSS for all presentation aspects (fonts, colour, padding, borders etc)?
    2. Are all decorative images in the CSS, or do they appear in the (X)HTML?
  3. Accessibility for users
    1. Are “alt” attributes used for all descriptive images?
    2. Does the site use relative units rather than absolute units for text size?
    3. Do any aspects of the layout break if font size is increased?
    4. Does the site use visible skip menus?
    5. Does the site use accessible forms?
    6. Does the site use accessible tables?
    7. Is there sufficient colour brightness/contrasts?
    8. Is colour alone used for critical information?
    9. Is there delayed responsiveness for dropdown menus (for users with reduced motor skills)?
    10. Are all links descriptive (for blind users)?
  4. Accessibility for devices
    1. Does the site work acceptably across modern and older browsers?
    2. Is the content accessible with CSS switched off or not supported?
    3. Is the content accessible with images switched off or not supported?
    4. Does the site work in text browsers such as Lynx?
    5. Does the site work well when printed?
    6. Does the site work well in Hand Held devices?
    7. Does the site include detailed metadata?
    8. Does the site work well in a range of browser window sizes?
  5. Basic Usability
    1. Is there a clear visual hierarchy?
    2. Are heading levels easy to distinguish?
    3. Is the site’s navigation easy to understand?
    4. Is the site’s navigation consistent?
    5. Does the site use consistent and appropriate language?
    6. Does the site have a sitemap page and contact page? Are they easy to find?
    7. For large sites, is there a search tool?
    8. Is there a link to the home page on every page in the site?
    9. Are links underlined?
    10. Are visited links clearly defined?
  6. Site management
    1. Does the site have a meaningful and helpful 404 error page that works from any depth in the site?
    2. Does the site use friendly URLs?
    3. Do your URLs work without “www”?
    4. Does the site have a favicon?

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TreeMagic Cypress

February 14, 2008 in Plugins by Richard | No comments

TreeMagic Cypress is a new lightweight browser plugin for WordPress. Install, configure, then double click any word, or select a group of words on the page. On mouse-up a small popup appears adjacent to the selected text that gives you instant access to define, expand and explore related resources. It does not replace or interfere with existing hyperlinks, but adds an instant and powerful reference compliment to all your texts, regardless of formatting and styles.
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WordPress as a wiki?

February 10, 2008 in Uncategorized by Richard | No comments

WordPress for Wiki prototype

According to Wikipedia:

A wiki is software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. These wiki websites are often also referred to as wikis; for example, Wikipedia is one of the best known wikis.[1] Wikis are being installed by businesses to provide affordable and effective Intranets and for Knowledge Management. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as “the simplest online database that could possibly work”.[2]

Why wordpress as a wiki?
Put simply, WordPress is probably the finest Internet publication system available. It efficiently broadcasts posts to search engines and social networking services and provides excellent visibility, both in design, code structure and connectivity. To combine these well established features and the collaboration qualities of a wiki like setup produces a good combination of high visibility and group authoring requirements.

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