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1. #25725 If you've been creating sites with CSS for a while you may be getting frustrated with having to recreate and retest basic layouts on a regular basis. In this article I'm trying to illustrate a simple way of skipping the tedious startup on your average project, letting you get to the interesting stuff as quickly and efficiently as possible. Stenhouse, Mike. Content with Style (2005). Design>Web Design>CSS 2. #28866 CSS does not make a site accessible. CSS does not make your site rank higher in search engines. Good CSS does not make you an elite web programmer. I don't code CSS. CSS is misunderstood. Stenhouse, Mike. Content With Style (2007). Design>Web Design>CSS 3. #26049 Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps With AJAX-based applications still in their infancy there has been a tendency to disgard basic web behaviour in favour of slick functionality. In this article I am trying to rescue two of those ‘lost’ behaviours – bookmarking and the back button, using Javascript. Stenhouse, Mike. Content With Style (2005). Design>Web Design>Usability>Ajax 4. #25727 This isn't a new idea but looking at people's code it doesn't seem to be a particularly widely used practice: modular CSS. That's a poncy name for the very simple idea of grouping related styles into separate stylesheets. The same set of tasks turn up on project after project and a little careful thought can save hours of foundation work, allowing you to get on with the serious business of turning a flat design into a web page far more quickly. Stenhouse, Mike. Content with Style (2005). Design>Web Design>CSS 5. #26971 Playing Nice with the Other CSS Kids Over the years I've had the privilege of working on some very large web standards projects in small teams of other CSS/XHTML developers, but I've also spent a lot of time building little sites on my own for smaller clients. Maintenance on a small project involves being able to understand your own code when you come back to it months later. On larger projects it means your team mates being able to understand and edit your code as quickly and efficiently as possible at any point in the future. It's a far more complicated objective. Stenhouse, Mike. Content with Style (2006). Design>Web Design>CSS
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