Highlighting HTML access keys

Friday, March 26th, 2004

Most Windows and Mac applications support shortcut or access keys, however in most web applications, they are absent. Christian Schmidt has a nice tutorial on how to Highlighting HTML access keys in your web apps.

Creating Structured Tables

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

The key to writing accessible web pages, is to have well structured HTML. This is also true when designing tables (for tabular data of course). Creating Structured Tables is a short tutorial that will guide you through the steps of creating accessible tables.

PDF-O-Matic

Thursday, March 11th, 2004

PDF-o-matic is a simple PHP script that uses HTMLDOC to convert the web page of your choice to Adobe’s PDF format.

Simply enter an URL to be converted to PDF and click on the Make PDF button.

Definition Lists – Misused or Misunderstood?

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Max Design has another good article that asks if Definition lists are misused or misunderstood? Hopefully this article will guide you and help you to decide when it is appropriate to use them.

The article also offers some good tips on styling definition lists.

Mozedit

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

Mozedit is another sub-project of mozdev.org, that provides an advanced text editor extension for Mozilla Firebird and the Mozilla suite. It was created with web developer in mind.

Character Entity Reference

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

A nice HTML & XHTML Character Entities reference is available at cookwood.com.

The site is the official site for HTML Visual Quickstart Guide and offers many other HTML related references.

Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms

Thursday, January 22nd, 2004

Sitepoint does it again with another excellent article. This time they look at Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms.

Answers for Young People from Tim Berners-Lee

Monday, January 19th, 2004

Tim Berners-Lee has some Answers for young people about the WWW, Internet and his role in the development of this new medium.

HTML Tidy Online Service

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

HTML Tidy Online is a web-based tool that will clean up your HTML. Tidy settings include

  • Output XHTML
  • Clean Word 2000
  • Replace named colors
  • Uppercase/lowercase tags & attributes
  • Code indenting
  • and more…

You can either send the tool an URL, and HTML snippet, or upload a file and HTML Tidy Online does the rest for you.

Converting HTML documents to XHTML

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

beeandnee.com has a good article titled – Converting HTML documents to XHTML – An essential XHTML tutorial.

The tutorial covers:

  1. What XHTML is and the different XHTML document types
  2. General Rules
  3. Attributes in XHTML
  4. XHTML and tables
  5. XHTML and images
  6. XHTML and Javascript
  7. XHTML and CSS
  8. Element Prohibitions
  9. Resources on the Web