Road to validation.
Overseeing the current Wayne State University homepage is like running with a tiny pebble in your shoe. You feel it every step but your going so fast you cannot stop to take it out. Working with a site so large it can become discouraging but taking one step at a time one can accomplish anything. [...]
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Progressive Enhancement
Building for the lowest common denominator and then expanding upward. It sounds like a simple concept but most wed developers just can’t seem to grasp it. Not believing accessibility matters or being so inexperienced that building sites seems to just be a hack fest to make the “design” work in all browsers is the single [...]
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Flexable, Eatable CSS Forms..
The web is filled with forms and the more social sites get the more forms required. At Wayne State we end up creating a lot of forms for a lot of purposes. I am going to take for for example and show how we have come up with a fully flexible html form and how [...]
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Popular sites and their lack of validation
Launching a new site got me exploring some new code bases and I became disappointed with the disregard large social sites have for html validation of snippets they disburse to their user community. Since I wanted my site plain and simple to start instead of writing a bunch of code to use common API’s I [...]
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