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Sunday, June 6th, 2010Figures In Comfort Project Report
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Figure Cases Product Listing (FIGURE 1)
Figures in comfort asked me to produce a method of ensuring that customers can only select the amount of foam that will fit into the cases.
The previous system allowed customers to choose more foam than would fit, which made it take longer for them to be able to fulfil the order.
This is because some trays are double, triple and even quadruple depth.
The client would first have to contact the customer to explain, costing time and money.
HTML Standards
Thursday, February 25th, 2010The fundamental reason for HTML standards compliance is to ensure that you use only those elements and structures that are likely to be understood by the widest range of user agents.
It’s like English – if I were to speak East Anglian most other English speakers would not understand everything I say.
Similarly, if you use proprietary dialects of HTML, some user agents won’t understand everything you write.
There is however, a standard for HTML which the browser makers say they support, and validation points out the potential problems in your HTML source. By adhering to the standards you maximise the accessibility of your work to the widest range of user agents, and therefore, users.
Why should I comply with web standards?
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Complying with web standards can give your web pages greater visibility in web searches. The structural information present in compliant documents makes it easy for search engines to access and evaluate the information in those documents, and they get indexed more accurately.
CSS VS Tables
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Tables are meant for tabular data and therefore using them to control layout is sloppy. They also mean that you need to edit more pages to move things such as menu items. CSS gives you more diversity and allows you to lay your markup in a more accessible way by hiding jump-links for example.
If you are using FireFox, View >> Page Style >> No Style and you will notice that the website is not broke by the fact there is no style. Tabled websites often will or content is read before links making sites less accessible.
