The Particletree blog has a nice article titled - A Designer’s Guide to Prototyping Ajax - that walks you through a suggested process for developing prototypes of these new fandanagled web applictions. The article focuses on creating good wireframes using standards compliant XHTML and CSS.
This is old news, but worth linking to and reading again. The DOM Scripting Task Force has published a DOM Scripting Manifesto that covers some important ideas and concepts around the scripting the DOM. Their blog is also excellent with lots of links to current trends in DOM Scripting.
Roger Johansson from 456 Berea St continues to impress with his latest article titled CSS 3 selectors explained. He covers the new selectors that allow you to match patterns in attribute values and a whole slew of new pseduo-class selectors.
Roger Johansson from 456 Berea Street offers and excellent list of the top Ten reasons to learn and use web standards.
Changingman layout is a collaborative CSS effort by Andy Clarke and Brothercake that provides a liquid three column CSS layout with a fixed positioned and width centre column. You gotta check it out - it’s really slick!
CSSVista is one of the coolest free products I’ve come across in recent months. It is an application that gives you live CSS editing with Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously! Some of the features include:
Tommy Olsson has a nice concise article that explains Doctype Declarations and Content-Type Headers. If you thought that using the correct DTD declaration was all there was to creating XHTML documents, you’ll be surprised!
Veerle Pieters shows us how to create two level horizontal navigation in CSS with images. It’s a nice short tutorial with great results!
The Autistic Cuckoo explains Inheritance vs Cascade as it applies to CSS. Having an excellent concept of these two terms is essential for any developer using CSS. They allow you to leverage the ability to create very lean and mean style sheets.
Veerle Pieters shows us how to create stunning tables using a surprisingly small amount of CSS.
