Code Chunks and Plugins for Designers

“The question Who created CSS? just showed up in my search logs. The very short and simple answer to this is: Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos authored the original CSS1 specification. There is more to this story, however. Bert and Håkon didn’t pull CSS out of any magic hat – this is a small [...]

On Wednesday 28th Feb at 7pm, the third London based meeting for the Web Standards Group will take place at the Westminster University campus near Goodge Street station.

Web site designers love the idea of Ajax–of creating Web pages in which information can be updated without refreshing the entire page. But for those who aren’t hard-core programmers, enhancing pages using Ajax can be a challenge. This book is a step-by-step guide to enhancing Web sites with Ajax. Working with the Web consultancy firm, Clearleft, [...]

Standards, argues Jeffrey Zeldman in Designing With Web Standards, are our only hope for breaking out of the endless cycle of testing that plagues designers hoping to support all possible clients. In this book, he explains how designers can best use standards–primarily XHTML and CSS, plus ECMAScript and the standard Document Object Model (DOM)–to increase their [...]