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Quick Accessibility Testing

A recent project of mine required me to do a quick review of the accessibility level of a site. Nothing serious, just to show what was possible to test and where the site scored right now. I…

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What is Web 2.0? Really.

Web 2.0 is really hot right now. One of Sweden’s biggest newspapers recently wrote a long article on their debate section. They had started linking back to blogs that linked to them, in a…

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Click here to read this article

No matter where you go on the web today you see those little anonymous links: “click here“. You clearly see them, often marked with a different color (links as they are), but you…

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Judging the technical quality of a site

When you look at a website to determine its quality on the code level, you need a different set of metrics than you did some years ago. This article is my attempt at specifying what metrics I use….

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Tricks to make your site easier to use

There are lots of little tricks you can use to make your sites easy to use. Problem is that they are so obvious, you don’t think of them. This article is an attempt to share some of the ideas…

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Correcting the 20 pro tips (.NET magazine)

.NET magazine is a fairly big web development magazine. I’ve recently been referenced to its articles from many separate places, and often found the articles to be of good quality. The last…

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Why you should date a front-end developer

You’ve heard all those rumours of how nerdy looking people in glasses obsess over numbers they call things like “pie” or “eee”. You heard they dress up like aliens and…

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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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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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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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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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Cross browser CSS for your site

This article will go through some useful cross-browser CSS techniques I use to get my sites to look the same in several modern browsers. It’s fairly easy to send out different versions of…

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Simple CSS templates

The most frequent question in the #CSS channel I’m in is about how you make a 2 column layout. Most beginners seems to have problems understanding how floats work since they are quite…

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