So we’ll eat at a place that doesn’t have a Flash website

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 18 February, 2010 to the technology subset

Flash powered websites can be a challenge to use at the best of times, but spare a thought for those using devices that don’t support it, and more so where no alternative – such as an HTML version – is offered either.
But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link [...]

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HTML 5, rich internet applications, and the demise of Flash?

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 18 June, 2009 to the technology subset

HTML 5 will allow web designers to create rich internet applications without needing to utilise third party applications such as Flash and Silverlight, as has been the case up until now.
One of HTML 5’s goals is to move the Web away from proprietary technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX, says Ian Hickson, co-editor of [...]

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HTML 5 websites are the new tableless website

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 4 May, 2009 to the technology subset

A small gallery of websites (and there probably aren’t too many examples about right now) marked up with HTML 5.
View source for a good time!

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The markup formerly known as is the future of the web

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 23 April, 2009 to the technology subset

Dave Shea outlines his decision to drop XHTML markup and return to HTML 4.1, which is accompanied by some great discussion on the issue.
And as a result, there seems to be a shifting of consensus from “XHTML is the future of the web” to “XHTML2 is pretty much never going to happen, looks like HTML5 [...]

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A list of rare HTML tags including some that may be extinct

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 26 March, 2009 to the technology subset

A list of ten HTML tags, including a couple that are very obscure (there were two I’ve never encountered in 11 years of HTML-ing).
Scan the list then check out the accompanying discussion regarding the usage of some tags.

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The realm of junk code, there be no standards here

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 27 February, 2009 to the comment subset

Producing bad HTML isn’t merely poor form, it borders on negligence:
Garbage HTML has a special something to it, a unique blend of being not just invalid, but disgustingly so by going beyond minor misunderstandings or typos and far into the realm of negligence – improperly nested tags, tags that are never properly ended, incorrect attribute [...]

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HTML headings, accessibility, and SEO

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 29 January, 2009 to the comment subset

Roger Johansson has written a great refresher about the correct use of HTML headers, or elements such as h1, h2, etc.

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Don’t know HTML? Great, you too can be a web designer

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 to the comment subset

I’d say if you want to be a web designer then having a working knowledge of HTML would be pretty much be a prerequisite. But not necessarily… an art director I once worked at a web design studio didn’t even know what H T M L meant…
If you aren’t proficient in HTML, you may be [...]

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The ultimate Web design job description

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 30 June, 2008 to the comment subset

Back in the day being a web designer meant knowing a little HTML (no CSS) and how to use image creation software like Photoshop. That was about it. That was a long time ago. There is just a little bit more to the role today however.
You may find that there are plenty of job listings [...]

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30 Cool Web Designer T-Shirts

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 3 June, 2008 to the design and art subset

A very cool range of t-shirts for the web geek in your life.
Maybe I’m a hard core geek or something though, I never knew, I kid you not, what HTML actually means :)

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