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27: CSS basics
By Christian Heilmann · Friday, September 26, 2008 55
Cascading Style Sheets are the second major topic of the Web Standards Curriculum! You can use CSS to style your HTML in whatever way you want, changing fonts, colors, element positions on the page, and more. In this article Christian Heilmann give you a basic introduction, including CSS anatomy and basic concepts, CSS shorthand, and how to apply CSS to HTML. Read more…
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26: Accessibility testing
By benjaminhawkeslewis · Friday, September 26, 2008 29
In this article, Ben Hawkes-Lewis looks in detail at how to do accessibility testing of your sites, including which guidelines to use, automated testing, and testing with real users. Read more…
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25: Accessibility basics
By Tom Hughes-Croucher · Friday, September 26, 2008 12
Accessibility is one of the most important topics for any aspiring web developer to learn about - the practice of developing your web sites so they can be used by users with disabilities such as blindness, and users browsing on alternative devices such as mobile phones. In this article Tom Hughes-Croucher takes you through the basics of the whole topic. Read more…
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24: Validating your HTML
By Mark Norman Francis · Friday, September 26, 2008 9
In this article, Mark Norman-Francis revisits the importance of the doctype in your HTML documents, showing how the W3C validator uses it to validate your documents and return to you a list of HTML errors, if any are encountered. He also explains why this is so useful, and what you should do to fix your HTML errors. Read more…
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23: Creating multiple pages with navigation menus
By Christian Heilmann · Friday, September 26, 2008 3
Single HTML pages are important, but most commonly a web site will consist of multple pages, connected together using a navigation menu built out of lists and links. This article explores how to build different types of best-practice navigation menus. Read more…
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22: Generic containers—the div and span elements
By Mark Norman Francis · Friday, September 26, 2008 11
Sometimes you'll come across a grouping of content that doesn't have an existing HTML 4 element (or elements) that will suit it exactly. Typical archetypes include page headers, footers, and navigation menus. In these cases, you can wrap the content in a
or element, and give it a class or id attribute. This will group it together and provide a hook to manipulate the content as a single entity using JavaScript or CSS at a later date. These generic elements are the subject of this article.Read more… -
Opera Presto 2.1 - Web standards supported by Opera’s core
By Bruce Lawson · Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4
This article details the standards support provided by the Opera Presto 2.1 rendering engine. Read more…
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Opera Binary Markup Language
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, September 10, 2008 22
In this article Chris Mills gives the lowdown on OBML, the one of the main technologies behind Opera Mini, which is also available in the Opera Devices SDK 9.6. Read more…