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I hope all you web people took the A List Apart 2007 Web Design Survey. All it can do is get some wonderful statistics for us web nerds. Plus, you get this sweet button. So I urge everyone who has anything to do with the web to fill out the survey. I did struggled with one question about what my specific job title is, because there has been some recent debate about what exactly it is. At my j…

So, I had played around with CSS attribute selectors a little bit before I went to An Event Apart Boston, but I have a much better grasp of them now. I gave a brief overview in my An Event Apart Boston Summary. Currently, you really have to do some digging to figure out exactly how to use them, but I hope this article explains them all better. General Information Basically, attribute selectors…

So I am finally getting around to writing up a summary of my time at An Event Apart Boston. I can’t even express how much that I learned. It was amazing to see so many respectable names in the web design/development community all speak. Thank god for my company, Matrix Group International for paying for myself and two co-workers to go to the event. So I thought I would give a quick run-down of all…

So my company is paying for two other webmasters and myself to go to An Event Apart Boston. It is not too often that you can get this many amazing names in the field of web development together in one place. I think I am really looking forward to the more design-centered events like: Redesigning Your Way Out of a Paper Bag by Jason Santa Maria Good vs. Great Design by Cameron Moll Selling Design…

So in the quest to abolish the www from my URL, I seemed to have broken Movable Type comments. I added the following to my .htaccess file: RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.trevor-davis.com$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ //trevor-davis.com/$1 [R=301,L]  That means whenever anyone tried to go to www.trevor-davis.com, they were redirected to trevor-davis.com. My co-worker, Adrian, told m…

This week, there was an A List Apart article called Semantic Flash: Slippery When Wet. When I first started learning about Web Standards, I hated flash. I thought that it was really all just bells and whistles and nothing useful. As time has passed, I have realized that there are some situations where flash can be useful. First, there was the sIFR: Scalable Inman Flash Replacement. Earlier this w…

You really do get better through experience. The best experience is learning from your mistakes. I learned a great deal from one experience in particular. About 2 months ago, I did some work for the a pretty high profile client. Their regular webmaster was going to be out of town during the busiest time of the year for them, and I had agreed to help them update the site for the next 2 weeks. Over…

What are the steps that you go through when making a web site? Are you adding a lot of extra <div> and <span> tags? Do you have way too many classes? Maybe you should reconsider your process. The process that I have found effective, is exactly what I am doing with this site: Create the markup for everything. Add divs that make sense, i.e. header, content, footer. Go in and implemen…

I still don't understand why people refuse to embrace web standards. Is there an advantage to using tables for layout? Yeah that bloated code and horribly inaccessible code sure sounds great to me too. You know what sounds better to me? Some nice lean code with a stylesheet to control the style on the site. There are two sites that I know of that have paid a lot of money to have their sites red…

Everyone hates forms. They are hard to style so that they work with your site design. They are hard to make them accessible. Yeah, yeah we have heard it all. But in reality, they are not that hard to do. Since every other web developer/designer has their own method, I thought I would share my two cents. When thinking through all of the HTML elements to find something that makes sense for forms, th…