Category Archives: Markup

Posts relating to document structure

From the Top: The Meta Element

The meta element provides web document authors the ability to provide information about the document rather than the content itself. In the sixth article in my series “From the Top”, I continue to explore what we may wish to include between the head tags. This article is not a discussion on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) techniques although the guidelines offered may help (and ethically so) in that regard. Continue reading

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Bulletproof Web Design Book Review

Another fine book from Dan Cederholm. This time around he divvies a typical web page down to its components — text, navigation, boxes and rows and the layout itself and explains and demonstrates the most bulletproof way of implementing them in a standards-compliant way. Continue reading

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The Alt Attribute and Accessibility

No article this week from myself but head over to Mike Cherim’s Beast Blog for a great article on the proper use of the alt attribute instead.

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