Revisiting the html5 document outline

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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

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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

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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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Weighing in on HTML5

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I still hear late adopters, leary of HTML5 voice concerns. You know these people, they won’t cast their stone until something is a “sure bet”. And how do they know it is a sure bet? When everyone else has done it, or is using it. At that point, you are always playing catch up with

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Playing with :nth children

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Two fun visual playgrounds to help understand the advanced usage of nth-child: http://nthmaster.com/ http://lea.verou.me/demos/nth.html for a great explanation of how it works, start with Chris Coyiers article http://css-tricks.com/how-nth-child-works/. where Chris has his own visual tester linked at the end of the article. But of course, IE is late to the game on this, with no

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