If you have an element whose children are all floated, it won’t have any height to it. I’ve always just put an extra <div style=”clear: both;”> at the bottom of the container to force it to clear, but it looks like there’s been a much better way for a few years now. Alex Walker points… [more]
Archive for November, 2009
These are some of the better free icon sets I’ve seen: Axialis Photoshop Style File Icons Silk Fugue Chalkwork HTML
Jesse Skinner explains why developers should use appropriate semantic tags when marking up a page , rather than just putting everything inside a <div>. Here’s a quick reference list of what I commonly use: <div> – For large page sections, and when there isn’t a specific semantic tag <h1> … <h6>: For section header titles <p> – For text paragraphs, and when there isn’t… [more]
Here’s how to have a drop-down menu appear on top of a Flash object: Add a z-index of 0 to the object’s containing div Add <param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”> inside the object tag Add wmode=”transparent” to the embed tag via Sheriar Designs
I agree with a lot of what Derek Powazek wrote about the SEO industry in Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists . His main gist is that the good SEO techniques — like using tags that match the semantics of the content and setting up 301 redirects when pages move — should just be considered good development practices, and that all… [more]
