Should one embrace responsive web design or not?
Heard of responsive web design? Wondering what all the fuss is about? Big question: should you be using it? Part of the answer is discussed here.
Category: Standards and code
28/06/2011 | 8 comments | View Post
The secret of strong and em tags.
Find out the real sense, use and utility of the strong and the em tags. What do they have more than the b and i tags and how to use them. You will have a full overview of them all and their use in accessibility and SEO in this article.
10/05/2010 | 7 comments | View Post
Dropping unnecessary tags in your HTML code.
Improving a page’s HTML code can be easy task. It gets better when it is done with some smart edges. Here is a little process I use: dropping off the maximum number of unnecessary tags as can be done while cleaning and optimising the code.
20/04/2010 | 2 comments | View Post
You should be (over-) using the H (heading) tags.
Headings are regularly overlooked by web designers although they are really useful elements in web design in terms of standards, seo and usability. The full cover of these is in this article.
15/04/2010 | 8 comments | View Post
Speeding your page load time will improve your Google ranking.
Google made it official, a page’s load time affects its ranking in results pages. Learn how to speed up your pages through code optimisation.
13/04/2010 | 11 comments | View Post
New version of the HTML 5 draft.
A new version of the HTML 5 draft is currently available. It has been published yesterday (9th of September 2009) and is still in its working note form. It is interesting to read about the conception of this new version of the future web. Most of it is based on the HTML Design Principles that [...]
10/09/2009 | 0 comments | View Post
HTML 5 wins over XHTML 2.
This post actually echoes my first post on the subject (in French). Here we are, another hedge to cross for Mauritian web designers and companies. Too bad, just at the moment when Mauritian companies like E-services have started going towards web standards (repect for that though there’s still a lot to do). So, what is [...]
15/07/2009 | 4 comments | View Post
Web standards for online businesses in Mauritius.
There’s a lot of talk over the advent of the Internet in Mauritius and l’Express even had an article on the new practices over the Internet especially concerning on line purchases, Internet banking or job seeking (though I doubt that it is a good thing to compare online shops in Mauritius with business models such [...]
24/11/2008 | 2 comments | View Post
Don't use that TABLE.
Back in the 90s, the web was an anarchy concerning the way browsers worked or the way websites were coded. CSS barely had any value and Flash was believed to be the ultimate webdesign experience. Then ergonomics came into the picture. A person’s attention had to be captured in 7 seconds. The underlying idea was [...]
06/06/2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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