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Designing with Web Standards

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

If your HTML/XHTML and CSS is still not standards compliant and are still struggling to decide whether it’s worth it or not then “Designing with Web Standards” by Jeffrey Zeldman is an essential reading.

This book was recommended by my professor at NYU when I took the class on “Web Development with CSS and XHTML”. Finally, I found time to read this book. Since I have been using XHTML since about one year and a half, I found myself skipping through most of the content. The most useful part for me in this book was the resources on accessibility. I read that part very carefully and is now a must in all websites I code. So, it was worth reading this book.

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FireFox Extensions

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

FireFox is the best thing that happened in the browser industry. I am a compassionate FireFox user. However, I do not disregard Internet Explorer at all. As a HTML coder, I find diversity in browsers a blessing. This is because when one browser forgives an error the other browser will display it. Hence, it’s all good!

Here, I want to recommend following FireFox extensions that are helpful to a web developer.

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How to Create Table With First Column Frozen?

Monday, December 12th, 2005

Here is a HTML technique that can be used to create a table for data such that we can freeze the first column and add a scrollbar for rest of the columns as illustrated below.

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Making FireFox Faster

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

There are ways to make FireFox render pages faster, with just a few easy tweaks. I learnt about this tip through one of our office emails. I tried it and it did make a difference for me.

This is what the email said: To get started, type “about:config” in your FireFox address bar. The settings you’re looking for are:

  1. network.http.pipelining
  2. network.http.pipelining.firstrequest
  3. network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
  4. network.http.proxy.pipelining
  5. nglayout.initialpaint.delay

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SEO Checklist – What Not to Do

Monday, November 21st, 2005

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is not a science at all in the sense that we cannot prescribe the same treatment to all the websites that we optimize. It’s an art. One needs to see what the individual website has to offer and then optimize it to make that website unique in its industry. And, this is where the secret of SEO lies.

However, there are few rules that should be followed by every website that wishes to be on the first page of search engines for their respective targeted keywords. Here, I have created a SEO checklist of stuff that we should not do if we care for SEO at all. This list is based on my experience as search engine optimizer. I’m going to modify this list as and when needed. So, watch this space! (more…)

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