W3.org is overhauling its website in order to make it more user-friendly and quiet people who used to wonder (including me) why the administrator body of web have such dull, flat, unorganized and old fashioned website?
The new website looks more attractive and organized. 10 minutes tour of new website can be found here. In contrast with the previous version, this new website uses rich content presentation, including JavaScript.
The website uses jQuery 1.3.2, a very known and popular JavaScript library, instead of pure JavaScript. This is very good news and a big leap towards streamlining the use of JavaScript frameworks, specially in case of jQuery. In addition of core jQuery framework, beta.w3.org also uses jQuery plugins (e.g.: http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/), to enhance the user experience.
The biggest news of the day is w3.org beta website doesn’t render correctly in IE6. It’s supposed to be a strong argument for web developers in order to inspire and take initiative towards to stop exclusive coding to render their websites correctly in IE6.
Modular CSS needs to be developed and all inherited properties needs to commented within CSS declaration so one don’t repeat same CSS again and selectors needs to named by some naming convention (e.g. prefixing every declaration by module).
Modules needs to be devised in such way so it remain plug and play if plugged in different application.
Not every validated webpage is accessible or ideal but every invalid web page is bad. So always try to validate. First by validating from validators and then by common sense, because technically a page with thousands of nested DIVs are valid. button stimulated out of div is valid. But question is… Is it really?
In today’s web arena, CSS has proved its importance in rigid way. Web content is no more targeted to web browsers only, Web content is been served for a verity of media now days. To efficiently handle such situation CSS plays a very crucial role.
In order to extract maximum pulp from CSS fruit there are few things needs to keep in mind. Although rule of thumb is efficiency is directly proportional to experience but I’ll point out few options 3-part post series See, Yes! Yes! – READY, See, Yes! Yes! – STEADY and See, Yes! Yes! – GO. which can help novice CSS developers to take right diversions.
All of following points are optional and one can modify them according to needs and/or simply drop the idea.
Big Picture:
Planning is a must for mid or big projects…for small projects one can instantly start coding.
While coding for new design, web designer must analyze the design mock-up and slice the design by keeping in mind the facts which are resultant of observation and guideline of website/blog/web application.
e.g.
- What portion of design mock can be translated by using CSS rules instead
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