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Ultimate Site Logo 2 - For real this time

November 21st, 2008

After writing my first article on the subject, Ultimate Site Logo, I’ve come up with two significant enhancements.. With the original solution, there were two major flaws. The first one was a semantic one and the other one a more obvious and technical one.
This time around I think I’ve got all the details right. Well, [...]

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Imagemap rollover

September 1st, 2008

Imagemaps was very popular in the early days of webdesign but seem to have fallen out of grace. Probably due to accessibility problems and the rise of CSS based designs. I think that it still has it’s place when used properly and one being aware of it’s potential accessibility problems.
In a recent project I was [...]

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I miss X-Ray

July 9th, 2008

I really hope that Stuart Robertsson, the maker of the ingenious Firefox Add-on X-Ray, updates it to work with Firefox 3 soon! I don’t think I’ve realized how much I’ve relied on this add-on in my daily work until now that it doesn’t work anymore.

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Ultimate site logo

June 25th, 2008

To have a good site logo is important. It’s one of the things that distinguish your web site from everybody else’s. It’s also a design element that exists on all pages within your site. Naturally you want it to be good looking, but at the same time it needs to be accessible and also search [...]

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Marking up contact information with microformats

June 9th, 2008

If you’re building web sites you probably mark up contact information every now and then. Why not do it in a standardized ways so that you are able to quickly mark it up, style it and enhance it with microformats at the same time? The way to do this is by using hCard, a microformat for marking up contact information.

This article will not only show you why you should do this, but also exactly how!

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