Beyond Dimensions
Yahoo Developer Network launches YSlow, a web page analyzer which tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. So before installing YSlow you have to install Firebug.
YSlow featured with:
The implementation of valid/standard methods, guidelines and best practices will help to produce high quality websites that are accessible to as many as possible. By building valid websites you can save time and money for the development and provides a better experience for the visitor.
Validation is also an important part of web development. Many errors that are hard to find can discover during validation. This is like spell checking and proofreading for grammar and syntax in a document. but is much more precise and reliable than any of those processes because it is dealing with precisely-specified machine languages, not with nebulously-defined human natural language. You can validate your (X)HTML page as well as your CSS.
Here I’m not going brief you about Web Standards, but I’m going to tell how we can use those best practices in Web standards to produce a valid (X)HTML page.
DOCTYPE declaration at the beginning of the file. A DOCTYPE (short for “document type declarationâ€) informs the validator which version of (X)HTML you’re using, and must appear at the very top of every web page. DOCTYPEs are a key component of compliant web pages: your markup and CSS won’t validate without them.<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "- //W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" />xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" to the <html> element.</p> is not valid anymore.<P> becomes <p>.<hr> becomes <hr />.<p align="right">.<hr noshade="noshade" />.& in place of &. : <a href="foo.php?chapter=1&section=2 /><form> element should have to have a action attribute always: <form action=â€#â€></li>name & id attributes in input element, both should be in same name: <input name="field_name" id="field_name" />alt attribute always for <img> element: <img src="image.gif" alt="" />width & height attributes as in this order in <img> element: <img src="image.gif" width="100" height="100" alt="" /><script type="text/javascript" src=â€javascript.js"></script>tables only for TABULAR data.<th> for table headers & <td> for table data.<strong><em>…</em></strong>Here another list from me 
this time it’s all about feeds which I have added to my Google Reader to read whenever I am free. Actually now I am addicted to Google Reader and these feeds. This list is bit long and it’s containing around 78 valid feeds.
Here I have sorted out the list in alphabetical order. This will contain feeds about Web Standards, Accessibility, Usability, User Experience, Web 2.0, Personal Blogs, Technical and Technology, Design Resources and some great online journals regarding web and it’s new trends. This is very helpful for me to keep my self updated on time.
If anyone know any good feed that I have missed here, feel free to add it via a comment.
Here I’m going to list down very useful articles regarding web standards. From introduction to implementation, from web browsers to web accessibility. These articles were very helpful for me, so I hope for all you people who have heard about Web Standards and want to learn more about it, people who haven’t even heard about Web Standards and also Web Standards geeks who have miss some articles can find here.
If anyone think I have miss something here, please let me know then I can add it too.
Let’s make a better web for you and for me
FullCodePress is a series of web competitions - the brainchild of the people at Webstock and WIPA. In essence it’s a geek Olympics!
The concept is simple. Web teams take each other on, at the same location, to build a complete website in 24 hours. No excuse, no extensions, no budget overruns.
The first event will be held in Australia on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 August 2007 between Australia and New Zealand. In 2008 there will be a worldwide challenge for any interested countries – to be held in Wellington New Zealand. We’ll also be facilitating and encouraging competitions within individual countries.
Check out the FullCodePress website »
australia CSS Design Events international new zealand teams Web Web Standards XHTMLHere i’m going to list some useful browser specific CSS selectors, known as browser specific hacks;
IE 6 and below: * html {}
IE 7 and below: *:first-child+html {} * html {}
IE 7 only : *:first-child+html {}
IE 7 and modern browsers only: html>body {}
Modern browsers but NOT IE7: html>/**/body {}
Opera 9 and below: html:first-child {}
Safari: html[xmlns*=""] body:last-child {}
Check this tutoaial to learn how to use CSS selectors »
browser CSS hacks selectors Tutorials Web Web Standards XHTMLALA hosting The Web Design Survey 2007
Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?
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