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Top ten mistakes in web design (updated)

Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Jakob Nielsen has updated his Top ten mistakes in web design document for 2007 an its well worth a read. Nielsen is quite often seen as too "hard line" and his ideas are often seen as too restrictive to work in practice but I think this list of ideas and suggestions is something that every web devel… read more

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HTML emails in Outlook 2007

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
New version of MS Outlook uses Word to render HTML! Creating [tag]HTML emails[/tag] that work across the board has always been a black art. Producing HTML pages that work consistently across multiple browsers is challenging enough but when it comes to generating markup that works with most email cl… read more

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Using text links for navigation

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
This thread at Web Master World relates to a post I did recently about using images on your web pages for what is essentially text. Its long been accepted from an [tag]accessibility[/tag] standpoint, that the use of html text in [tag]site navigation[/tag] (rather than gif images that contain graphi… read more

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Does valid markup affect search performance?

Monday, September 11th, 2006
Many [tag]web developers[/tag] (particularly good ones) now code to standards laid out by the [tag]W3C[/tag]. There are many reasons to do this including faster page rendering times, more easily maintainable code and improvements in [tag]accessibility[/tag]. But does coding in well formed, valid mar… read more

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html emails – css+divs or tables?

Monday, June 26th, 2006
I've just been reading David Greiner's HTML Emails - Taming the Beast article on the Vitamin website. Its a great article and makes some good points, especially for those who are just about to torture themselves for the first time by creating a html email campaign! In the article, David makes a cas… read more

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