Month: January 2007

A lament for the A-listers

I’ve been missing the A-list bloggers in the web design world. Only Roger Johansson from 456 Berea Street maintains a regular posting schedule. He toyed with the idea of slowing down, and then came back stronger than ever. Way to go, Roger.

Nothing but quiet with an infrequent mutter comes from some of my other favorites such as Eric Meyer, Molly Holzschlag, and Jeffrey Zeldman. Has everything on the topic of web design already been written, or are these folks just too busy traveling around to various in-person events? Or are there new A-listers out there busily writing about this topic who have escaped my notice? If there are, please tell me about them, because I miss that daily read about web design topics.

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Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website

Here’s an interesting article about how to internationalize your web site. Internationalization is fast becoming more and more important as a standard practice. Writer Huiping Iler has seven suggestions in this article called Digital Web Magazine – It’s in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website

“When it comes to creating a successful international website, language isn’t everything. Many other factors come into play, all of which require knowledge about your target market. If, for example, you know you will be translating your website into other languages, its a good’ idea to keep this in mind during the initial design phase. Why? That way you can design it in a way that accommodates these changes without affecting the website’s core design.

The process of designing a product (in this case a website) so that it can be adapted to other languages without engineering changes is called internationalization. Within the framework of internationalization, localization can take place. In website design, localization is the process of adapting a website through language, content and design to reflect local cultural sensitivities.”

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Review: HTML Mastery: Semantics, Standards and Styling

Jan 11, 2007 by

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HTML Mastery: Semantics, Standards and Styling

★★★★★ HTML Mastery: Stemantics, Standards, and Styling by Paul Haine (Friends of Ed, 2006) is different enough to be desirable as an addition to your library. It takes on some new ideas regarding HTML and has a different slant from most other HTML books.

Paul Haine writes like a teacher. His style is careful, clear, and well planned.

There’s a strong emphasis on semantics in HTML in this book and some very good suggestions and ideas to add to your approach to HTML. Chapter 2 on Using the Right Tag for the Right Job and Chapter 6 on Recognizing Semantics were especially informative.

There’s an interesting chapter on microformats, such as the hReview microformat being used for this review. Other information not usually emphasized in an HTML book includes a chapter on XHTML 2.0 and Web Applications 1.0, an appendix on how to serve XHTML as XML, and an appendix on alternatives to frames.

Overall, an excellent book with a new slant.

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Styling form controls with CSS, revisited

Roger Johansson adds another to his series of articles on styling form controls. Styling form controls with CSS, revisited | 456 Berea Street. This article boasts 224 screenshots from 8 browsers on 4 operating systems. Johansson concludes that his studies shows that,

“…using CSS to style form controls to look exactly the same across browsers and platforms is impossible. It also shows that most browsers ignore many CSS properties when they are applied to form controls.”

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