web design

HTML5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools

There is still strong debate about whether or not the alt attribute should be a required attribute for the img element in the HTML5 draft  on the W3C's XTECH...

0 replies - 679 views - 06/07/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Presentation Layer Performance Tuning

Typical conversations about Web performance tend to revolve around client/server latency, database performance, and the time it takes a server to render and...

0 replies - 1350 views - 06/07/08 by accessibility in News

Presentation Layer Best Practices

With the adoption of W3C recommendations by most web browser manufacturers, client-side web development has finally reached "critical mass" in terms...

0 replies - 3476 views - 06/06/08 by accessibility in News

Google Style Did You Mean....? in PHP

On a new website I am developing for a client I had to add the usual "Did you mean... ?" in the search results for her. Si I started thinking for the...

0 replies - 22496 views - 06/06/08 by Alejandro Alvarez in News

27 Not to be Missed Web Development Articles - May 2008

This is the first edition of the monthly post that collects not to be missed articles from around the web that relates to web development. The amount of...

0 replies - 3151 views - 06/01/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

JavaScript Chaining Your Methods

In a previous post on JavaScript Ant I reviewed some techniques from JavaScript libraries that could prove to be useful in your own scripts. A final technique...

0 replies - 1767 views - 05/29/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

DOMAssistant 2.7.1 released

DOMAssistant has been covered frequently here on the web builder zone, including an interview with the creator of DOMAssistant Robert Nyman.

1 replies - 411 views - 05/28/08 by Schalk Neethling in Announcements

CSS Message Boxes for different message types

Can you believe this: Few days ago I went to my bank to check my credit score with the Credit Bureau. The bank official typed in my personal data and sent a...

3 replies - 45649 views - 05/26/08 by dzovan in News

HTML 5 Reverse Ordered Lists

One of the newly introduced features in HTML 5 is the ability to mark up reverse ordered lists. These are the same as ordered lists, but instead of counting up...

0 replies - 2336 views - 05/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Firefox 3 RC 1 now available for download

On Friday 16 May 2008 the first release candidate of the third version of the Firefox browser was released to the developer community for further feedback....

0 replies - 603 views - 05/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in Announcements

Making Element Selection and AJAX simple with DOMAssistant

With this article, my goal is to show you how easy it is to implement basic element selection and then add some nice dynamic retrieval of content through AJAX...

0 replies - 5437 views - 05/13/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

The 7 Rules of Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement

In this article I want to point out the reasons why progressive enhancement is a very clever way of developing software and give you some tips and tricks how...

0 replies - 2137 views - 05/11/08 by codepo8 in News

AJAX and Screen Readers - Content Access Issues

The rise in the use of AJAX to dynamically change content without refreshing the page has resulted in accessibility problems for users of Assistive Technology...

0 replies - 819 views - 05/08/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Presentation Layer Accessibility

Not everyone using the Internet today enjoys the same kind of user experience as does the average person. Consider the following:

0 replies - 964 views - 05/08/08 by accessibility in News

CSS Generated Content Part 1

One of the things that had me bothered for a while were visual separators. Whenever I got a design, there were always some silly pipes or > signs that were...

0 replies - 1356 views - 05/07/08 by Niels Matthijs in News