CSS3 For Web Designers

Looking back upon the storied history of CSS, we see some important milestones that have shaped our direction
as web designers. These watershed techniques, articles, and events helped us create flexible, accessible websites that we could be proud of both visually as well as under the hood. You could argue that things began to get interesting back in 2001, when Jeffrey Zeldman wrote “To Hell With Bad Browsers” (http://bkaprt.com/css3/1/),1 signaling the dawn of the CSS Age. This manifesto encouraged designers to push forward and use CSS for more than just link colors and fonts, leaving behind older, incapable browsers that choked on CSS1. Yes, CSS1. Continue Reading »
CSS3 For Web Designers

HTML CSS - The Good Parts

HTML and CSS are old technologies that have seen over a decade of use and continue to evolve. Web developers celebrating their fifteenth year of work have seen all kinds of projects built across a wide variety of browsers, experimented with different features, and noted their successes and failures.
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HTML CSS – The Good Parts

Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHMTL and JavaScript

Believe it or not, when we were kids, the standard way to send written text to someone was by mail. Not e-mail, mind you, but the physical kind requiring a stamp on the envelope. Admittedly, this makes us feel incredibly old. Right up until middle school, we would submit handwritten assignments, just like everybody else in our classes. It was the standard.
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Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHMTL and JavaScript

Developing Large Web Applications

It’s been a while since I first worked on a book with O’Reilly in 1997. That book was a practical guide to data structures and algorithms, a subject that, for the most part, had been defined many years before by some of the early giants of computer science (Dijkstra, Hoare, Knuth, to name a few). By comparison, I’ve been able to witness the rapid evolution of the subject of this book from the front lines, and I have had the good
fortune to help refine it myself while working as a web developer at one of the largest web applications in the world, Yahoo!. Web developers have a fascinating role.
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Developing Large Web Applications