New Responsive Design

I have not blogged in over a year. Shame on me. I think part of the reason was because my blog template had become quite dated. I tweaked it a bit to make it semi-responsive a while back. But, I have ...

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HTML5 Experiment

I was looking through dealnews.com browser stats the other day to see how many of our visitors had browsers that could use CSS3. This was how it broke down. 58% of dealnews visitors have browsers...

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Tables for layout

I just read A case for table-based design and was thrilled to know I am not the only one that drowns in div soup from time to time.  I do not for the most part use tables for layout, but there...

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Best practices for escaping HTML

I am working on Wordcraft, trying to get the last annoying HTML validation errors worked out.  Thinks like ampersands in URLs.  In doing so, I am asking myself where the escaping should take...

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HTML vs. XHTML and validation

There is no shortage on the pages on the internet that talk about HTML vs. XHTML.  The vast majority of these (in the first few pages of Google) seem to favor XHTML.  I don't really have an ...

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Open Source Web Design

So, my wife told me that my site design was boring.  Yeah, she was right.  I am no designer.  I just don't have that gene.  But, during my work on Wordcraft, I came across some coo...

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Google Chrome and privacy

So, Google Chrome is out. If you don't know, it's Google's new browser. I downloaded it on my Windows XP machine and tried it out. I found this curious thing in the options. So, I thought, I will...

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