Or, why I still haven’t changed the look of this site yet. I had a new design ready to go. It used a funky photo I took and some funky colours as well as a more elegant and subtle design. … Continue reading
November 23, 2004
by Kay
Category Archives: Web Craft
November 22, 2004
by Kay
Accessibility and Geekiness
Last night, I was sitting back on the couch watching TV in the dark with two sleeping kittens on my lap – exhausted after a rousing hour or so of devouring boiled chicken then running around the couch jumping on … Continue reading
October 13, 2004
by Kay
Why I Validate
“Can a site claim to be web-standards-compliant if it doesn’t validate” seems to be the question of the moment. I think so, if it was built in the “spirit” of web standards. The real world intervenes, third party components and … Continue reading
September 12, 2004
by Kay
New Fusebox Forum App
The inimitable Aussie Lee Borkman has created a forum application ala Joel0nSoftware (which, by the way, is an absolute must-read – great stuff). It’s written in ColdFusion, in Fusebox 4 (although due to hosting constraints, a temporary Fusebox 3 version … Continue reading
August 17, 2004
by Kay
This is the story of my life
As PerthWeb’s resident standards nazi and quality enforcer, I feel that today’s Dilbert almost perfectly describes my life. Poor Dilbert. I know that if something doesn’t validate, it’s not the end of the world. But we have processes and checklists … Continue reading
August 15, 2004
by Kay
Web Standards Defined
John Dowdell applauds Russ Weakley for attempting to define the term “web standards”. Russ says that “a site built to web standards should ideally be lean, clean, CSS-based, accessible, usable and search engine friendly.” I would like to point to … Continue reading
July 12, 2004
by Kay
A Better Validator to RSS
It just keeps mutating! Ben Hammersley had the idea and implemented it in Perl, I made a ColdFusion version, Robby Lansaw came up with not one but two improvements (see the comments on my post), and now Bill Rawlinson has … Continue reading
July 7, 2004
by Kay
Crawling HTML Validator to RSS
In a comment in yesterday’s Validator to RSS in CF post, someone calling themselves “bward” suggested I modify the code to make it validate an entire site. Believe me, I’ve thought about it. For a start, it would need to … Continue reading