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The PSO is Getting Naked!

April 4th, 2006 by Jeff Louella

April 5th is the first annual CSS Naked Day!
Welcome to the first annual CSS naked day which will be happening April 5th, 2006. The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and; well, a fun […]

Smuggling Proprietary CSS and the Validity of the Validator

February 9th, 2006 by Andrea Piernock Barrish

Will makes an interesting point in his blog post about using browser-specific CSS and still having webpages validate. His quandry:
Have you ever been tempted to use a CSS property such as -moz-border-radius, but can’t stand the thought of having a page that refuses to validate?
He can’t add it to an external stylesheet through <link>, nor […]

Excel to HTML: Lickety Split and clean as a whistle

December 22nd, 2005 by Tim Crowe

I frequently get information for our site at work in an Excel file. This leaves me with two options. The first is to save as HTML and wade through hours of trash markup. It’s no secret that Microsoft Office documents saved as web pages create messy markup. This is tedious and takes forever. […]