Intermediate

Divitis: What it is and How to Avoid it

by Megan McDermott, 15 September 2007 - 2:20am

When they start designing with CSS instead of tables, many web designers fall into the same trap. Instead of putting tables around everything on a page, they use divs instead. The underlying design practices remain largely unchanged.

Creating a Custom Home Page in Drupal Using Views

by Liam McDermott, 29 June 2007 - 5:35pm

One of the most popular questions people new to Drupal ask is: ‘How do I change the home page?’ By default the index page of a Drupal site has a bloggy feel, the latest items shown in date order, but it doesn't have to look like that! That is the aim of this article, to show two ways—because there is always more than one way to do something in Drupal—to customize a Drupal home page.

Installing the Latest FFMPEG on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04

by Liam McDermott, 11 May 2007 - 10:43pm

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn comes with an old (relatively: 2006/08/23) version of FFMPEG. The developers of FFMPEG believe everyone should be running the latest and greatest daily builds though and released versions are few and far between.

Using Web Standards for Quality Assurance

by Liam McDermott, 4 May 2007 - 6:09pm

Quality assurance is exactly that. Ensuring a Web project is of a quality high enough to work on all modern browsers, now and in the future.

This article outlines how Web standards can be used to provide quality assurance and how this benefits a customer.

Creating a semantic FAQ page with definition lists and advanced CSS, Part 2

by Megan McDermott, 25 April 2007 - 7:39pm

In Part 1 of this series, we created a semantic FAQ page using definition lists and made it look pretty with CSS. Now it's time to work on some more functionality.

Creating a semantic FAQ page with definition lists and advanced CSS, Part 1

by Megan McDermott, 15 April 2007 - 4:34pm

Most websites have FAQ pages, but few put much effort into creating an attractive and usable interface. This article will explain one method of creating a nice FAQ page

What’s the Difference Between Usability and Accessibility?

by Liam McDermott, 14 April 2007 - 3:18am

‘Usability’ and ‘Accessibility’ are terms often misused and confused. This article aims to explain the differences between the two terms, their meanings and where they overlap.

What is the Semantic Web

by Liam McDermott, 29 March 2007 - 7:29pm

‘Semantic Web’ is a term often used by Web professionals, luckily it's not a buzz-word yet, but is a term everyone involved in the Web should know and understand. This article aims to explain the Semantic Web in plain English.

11 Practical Reasons to use CSS for Layout

by Megan McDermott, 14 March 2007 - 12:10am

In this article I'm not going to talk about semantics, ‘proper’ coding, or the W3C. You've probably heard all of that already (and if you haven't, you can check out Why Tables for Layout is Stupid: problems defined, solutions offered by Bill Merikallio and Adam Pratt). Instead of preaching about standards, I am going to present some real world, results–oriented reasons to use CSS instead of tables for web page layout. Let's get started right away.

Internet Explorer Unable to Count to 100

by Liam McDermott, 6 January 2007 - 4:43pm

This article demonstrates the difficulties Internet Explorer has when calculating percentage widths in CSS-based layouts.