Oh man, I haven’t made any updates in a while. I meant to make this post ages ago. Recently while working for Norex, I was coding an HTML newsletter for the NSLC and in Gmail and Hotmail (Not Yahoo mail or RoundCube) I was getting white lines between each row in my newsletter. As you […]
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Must Have Have Plugins
With the amount of WordPress sites I’ve been doing lately, I’ve encountered a list of plugins I keep returning too. They may not be perfect, but they do what I need, and they do it well. Contact Form 7 Really flexible contact form with changeable elements, optional CAPTCHA, multilingual support, recipients dependent on a drop down value, […]
The Dos and Do Nots of HTML
The Do’s of HTML Verify your code in the W3C validator The W3C validator is a great tool for making sure you write properly formatted code. Properly formatted code is more likely to work well in a browser and be accessible. It only takes a few seconds to do, so there is no excuse not […]
HTML Tables and FrontPage
Many of you have suffered because of FrontPage and tables. FrontPage more so when using alternative (and superior) browsers such as Opera, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. FrontPage was never designed to create valid code, or to be cross platform, cross browser compatible, and because of this, many sites appear broken and you often see a […]
Worst HTML Mistakes, pt 1
HTML is good at what it’s designed for, but it is used in some really horrible ways. Here are some things you should avoid: Use FrontPage/Microsoft Word to create websites Both of these applications generate horrendous HTML, which doesn’t comply with official W3C standards, doesn’t work in most non-Microsoft browsers, and is excessively bloated Use browser specific, […]