The Most Important Step
Many of you are using the time going into the break to redesign your departmental/office websites. If there is anything we can do to help — from suggestions on organization to coding to university...
View ArticleWeb Development Tools and Local Validators
Nick DeNardis over at .eduGuru recently wrote a post on web development tools. These browser plugins and websites help developers with issues pertaining to website validation, link checking,...
View ArticleLocal Validators (HTML, CSS, RSS/Atom) Live!
Drum roll please! The webmasters group is proud to bring you local copies of all three validators! The HTML validator has been up for a while. You can find it by going to...
View ArticleNew Addresses for Validators
We have put the finishing touches on the validators we announced in late January. There are now several ways to get to the validators depending on how you best remember them. The W3C validators are not...
View ArticleThere is an entity on your computer screen…
The word “entity” sounds like something creepy from a horror or sci-fi film, but HTML entities are actually beneficial. They allow webmasters to put typographical characters on their pages that don’t...
View ArticleBack from eduWEB
Michael and I are back from eduWEB and are pretty much recovered after a week in the big city. Over the course of the next week or two we will be sharing some of our experiences and insights. From a...
View ArticleeduWEB: Higher Style for Higher Education Websites
Design and usability: that was the focus of the eduWeb conference session led by Stewart Foss, a former college webmaster and founder of edustyle, a showcase for the best higher education web designs....
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Life Without Modern Development Techniques
Most of us can parrot web development best practices until we’re blue in the face. Design with CSS, take advantage of inheritance, use semantic markup, separate design from content, etc. Last week we...
View ArticleShould we continue to support IE7?
While looking through the analytics for yesterday’s post, I decided to take a look at browser use and see how many of our visitors are still using IE7. We have been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes...
View ArticleGoogle Tools
For several weeks I have been talking about Google as a search engine company. That is true, but let’s also remember that they are a for-profit corporation. While their search engine is the reason we...
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Things Web Developers Should No Longer Do
Note: This is opinion, of course, but what’s your opinion? What would you add or subtract? What web design trends do you think have passed their “sell-by” date? * infinite scroll * min-height:100vh *...
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