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If you use Twitter, you’ve no doubt seen short URLs. Posting most web page URLs would use up almost all of the 140 characters allowed by Twitter. …More...

In XHTML 1 strict and HTML 5, the name attribute on many elements has been replaced with the id attribute. But name hasn’t been replaced entirely. Form …More...

Photoshop is a great tool for mocking up websites. Layers, shapes, and filters help make the design process quick and easy. However, designing data tables can be …More...

An image doesn’t always have to be an image. Images on websites are usually .png, .jpg, or .gif files located on a server that are referenced in …More...

Mars, Inc., is taking a brilliant new approach for their Skittles brand’s public website. By creating a mashup of popular social web applications, they have essentially …More...

There are a lot of web browsers out there that have limited CSS support, including most mobile browsers and older desktop browsers (like Netscape 4). Also, shutting …More...

I was recently browsing through a web development forum when a particular posting caught my eye. A member was asking what is the best way to mark-up …More...

Since the great Web Standards revival, we web developers have sworn off presentational mark-up. Strict HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1 have exorcised presentational tags, such as <font> …More...

Computer screen technology has seen big improvements in the last few years. Old, bulky tube-based monitors, once the only type of monitor available, are nearly extinct. Flat …More...

In a recent article from BBC News, an analyst from the tech firm Gartner predicted the death of the computer mouse within the next five years. He …More...

Imagine surfing the web and finding a site that looks and behaves exactly like yours…the one you spent a lot of time and a lot of money …More...

A few weeks ago David Hyatt, a member of the WebKit Open Source Project, announced the WebKit rendering engine now has the ability to download fonts to …More...