One more day left at Johnston … September 23rd, 2009
One more day left at Johnston Press plc, is daunting have been here 3 years and 8 months but time for the next chapter, to play.com….
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CSS Specificity September 23rd, 2009
CSS specificity can be a confusing concept to grasp each element has a different weight or power. Types of selectors are element, class, id and inline style. Inline style is the most powerful follwer by in order of weight id, class and element.
An XHTML table with meaning. September 23rd, 2009
An example of a well structured XHTML table:
XHTML table with meaning
The weekend is approching fast… September 18th, 2009
The weekend is approching fast football tonight and a wedding tommorow. Happy days!
The blog has been started and … September 18th, 2009
The blog has been started and it feels good…. many more to come!
Microformats September 18th, 2009
This is called the hCard microformat it is used to ensure people and software applications can read the complete area.
vcard example
Semantic Mark-up September 18th, 2009
Semantic is a term for meaning, technically it is the meaning of a element and how that element describes the mark up of XHTML. There are many benefits to using semantics.
- Your website will be more accessible and understandable to people using screen readers.
- Search engine ranking will increase due to them being able to read the page easilier.
- In lots of cases it will decrease the amount of code on the page.
There are 3 ways HTML elements can be displayed September 18th, 2009
All HTML elements are displayed in one of the following ways: Block, Inline and Not displayed. Block elements will span the full width available to it and will start a new line in the flow of the HTML. Inline elements do not break the flow of the HTML they will fit within the flow of the HTML. Non displayed elements are elements such as meta tags.
Block elements examples:
Block elements
Inline elements examples:
Inline elements
