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RWD Thinking

Forget pixel perfect screen mock-ups. They are not a useful option anymore. structure the content structure the content functionality hierarchies produce a pattern library and a style guide of building blocks Stop thinking about “page” layouts. The layouts are complex patterns  of content blocks allowing the user to complete a specific level task or gather

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Keeping up with Web Development News

A great list of Development Newsletters from over at ImpressiveWebs JavaScript Weekly Links for Light Reading by Russ Weakley Responsive Design Weekly SitePoint’s Newsletter CodeProject Newsletter Sidebar Webdesigner Depot Newsletter HTML5 Weekly CSS Weekly Alertbox Email Newsletter Nettuts+ Email Updates The Week in Web Design (.net Magazine) Hacker Newsletter The Smashing Email Newsletter WebProNews SMACCS

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Revisiting the html5 document outline

Revisitng the html5 document outline, in light of this recent change from w3.org new text: “Sections may contain headings of any rank http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/sections.html#rank, but authors are strongly encouraged to use elements of the appropriate rank http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/sections.html#rank for the section’s nesting level.” If I understand html5 doctor correctly, I am using h1 as the top level heading

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Understanding Content Strategy

Notes from Understanding Content Strategy with Janine Warner Janinewarner.com Digital family.com Content Strategist Heavy content strategy SEO Meta data Quality control Team building For small sites you may create the contentOn large sites you may be reviewing the content Client is king of small Bureaucracy and politics rule the large Content Strategy documents = style

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Notes from Javascript Saturday Event

Chandler Dhall – Microsoft MVP INETA speaker problem solving/ algorithms worst case or Omega best case omega average case theta secure coding practices sanity checks validations (client side and server side) authentication authorization .asp top 10 object oriented principles principles do not change get the right abstractions inheritence encapsulation aggregation composition solid principles  there should

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