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Challenge: Marking up the world cup

It’s at the end of the world cup and it’s everywhere (fotball for those that live in a cave :). It might be that I spend too much time with thinking about the web but I got this little…

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Current issues with Microformats

A couple of weeks ago I attended Geek Meet in Stockholm. It’s a small group of people gathering to talk about semantics and share their knowledge of front-end webdev. It was the second meet…

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Beyond the web with CSS: PrinceXML and S5

Right now, depending on what kind of presentation you will be doing, you use different techniques. I’m not talking about “presentation” as in design here, I’m talking about…

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Concept: Four layers of web development

When thinking about web development on the client side, I tend to think of four different layers. Any (well built) framework will cater for all of these layers and all good developers will be aware…

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Inline CSS should not be allowed in strict doctypes

As many of my readers already know all pages should include a doctype. The doctype tells the browser (or other user agent) what kind of document it can expect and what standards it follows.
You can…

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Improving the web; Blogging, Google and Web standards

The web has really changed the way we do things. Remember those paper timetables? No need for them anymore, we simply type in our destination on a box and get a step by step guide for what to do….

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Emulating tables: Automatic width

Moving from tables to layouts based on CSS is a tough move for many. Things don’t behave the way they use to and some effects are much harder to do with CSS. This article is about one of the…

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Datatypes of HTML; why HTML is great for structure

HTML is often bashed by people for being a bad language. People, often used to XML, talk about the lack of good elements for marking up things like authors and dates. While I agree that HTML would…

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Web Development Pack

When I move to a new computer, I keep installing the same tools again and again. I always have problems finding them because they are spread out all over the net. This article is an attempt to…

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What beginners ask for (and what I tell them)

Being in an IRC help channel lets you meet a lot of people. Many are fresh beginners that just wrote their first lines of CSS and stumbled over something they found strange. When you look at their…

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Challenge: What’s the worst you can do?

After reading through the comments on my levels of CSS article I find that I few people seem to think that the article is a way to ridicule beginners. It’s not. It’s a way to document…

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Frames or Iframes with CSS

A frequent request from people new to CSS is trying to get a behaviour similar to frames while only using CSS. Many have read that frames have a lot of problems but do not know much more than that….

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Google statistics over HTML usage

Google Code has done extensive research over the use of HTML today. Since this is Google doing the job they had access to an enormous amount of data, over a billion documents where analysed. What…

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Building a poker template

This is the first article in a series of niche templates I’m building. You can have a look at the finished template before we start if you want.
About the niche
Today’s topic is Poker…

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Building niche sites with standards

I’m starting a new series of articles here at Friendly Bit. Through the use of web standards I will build a couple of niched sites and walk you through every step of the process. My hope is…

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Make a tooltip out of some columns in a table

A worried user joins the #CSS channel on EFNet. He has a big problem with the site he’s currently working on and wonders if there might be a problem with his markup. Let’s see what he…

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