Category: Old stuff

It’s the shortcut, which shows you what’s behind a website. Nested tables, nasty markup? Or clean semantic code, valid and web standards proof? Just press Ctrl+Shift+D and watch out.

It would be great if we could press Ctrl+Shift+D in real life. To see if people are really the ones they pretend to be. Don’t know if the person you speak to is trustful? Press Ctrl+Shift+D and you have all the answers.

Well, on the other hand the shortcut has the effect that I despite websites which turn out to rely on tables… and I kind of feel like nothing is good enough for me… That’s not really a good thing, because when I think about it, a website can also be a good website if it doesn’t validate and/or relies on tables. I think many web designers tend to “ignore” such websites. And it’s the work of the vault and stylegala that we focus on “the good web” only. Continue reading The Ctrl+Shift+D shortcut

Again a little thing that makes our pages a bit more perfect. After you’ve created the design, written the XHTML and styled it up using CSS you have to concentrate on something else. Typography. At least, you put some ” instead of " in there and that’s it.

I’ve found out another thing that’s important. They even use it in the “real” world (newspapers, magazines). The non-breaking-space. Sure, everyone knows about it. But do you use it? As it’s meant to be? Continue reading Use nbsp!

Maybe you expect me to write a few more articles. I really would write something, if I had time.

I’m doing my “Abitur” at the moment, so I gave up reading blogs and writing my own, but I will start again in a few weeks. The “Abitur” is the thing you need to go to university. In the dictionary it’s described as a “(Senior High School) graduation diploma”. This Wikipedia article does it somehow better. I’ve got exams in German, “computer science”/IT and biology (uuh). Wish me luck… and keep on checking for new entries.