Dave Woods - Freelance Web Designer UK

HTML 5 Cheatsheet

Dave — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:53:35 +0000

Courtesy of Chris Hanscom, Smashing Magazine have released an HTML5 cheatsheet, which if you’ve not been following the developments of HTML is definitely worth taking a look at.

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Latest Work: United Online

Dave — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:06:27 +0000

I don’t very often write about my own work on my blog, so following the re-design and launch of United Online this evening, I thought I’d take the opportunity to review my latest little project for a change.

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Everything you need to know about browser testing

Dave — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:11:10 +0000

Cross browser testing is something every web designer and developer should consider before they even create one line of code. But how should you go about it? What browsers should you test? and what tools are there that can make browser testing easier?

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W3C website redesign in beta

Dave — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:34:50 +0000

I’m not sure whether this has been kept quiet until recently as I’ve only just heard about the redesign of the W3C website but you can now view the W3C Beta version

To be honest, I think it’s a redesign that’s long overdue. Not just because the design was very simple and didn’t really set a good example for the web design industry but also because everything was so hard to find in terms of navigating through the site.

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Getting to grips with WAI-ARIA

Dave — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:04:02 +0000

I’ve been fairly busy recently and whilst I’ve heard about the introduction of WAI-ARIA, I’ve not really had chance to have a look at how these new guidelines will affect the way I build web pages. So today I decided to take the opportunity to sit down and at least get a basic understanding of what it actually is and how it aims to improve accessibility.

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7 Common Mistakes When Using the HTML Heading Element

Dave — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:47:02 +0000

The heading element is an important part of any HTML document but is misused in a lot of websites. When used correctly it adds semantic meaning, helps with accessibility and can boost your search engine rankings however when used wrongly it can cause problems for your users and search engine rankings. This article explains how heading tags are often misused and how this can be put right.

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Internet Explorer 8 Released

Dave — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:08:34 +0000

It’s finally here and is the first major release of a Microsoft browser since Internet Explorer 7 was released in 2006 but will it save the browser against fierce competition from Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera?

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Cufón Font Replacement

Dave — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:41:19 +0000

Cufón is a font replacement method similar to the sIFR method. But where sIFR was sometimes slow in replacing the font, required flash and was tricky to setup, Cufón looks set to do away with all those problems.

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5 Great Resources for Freelance Web Designers

Dave — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:19:32 +0000

When you delve into the world of freelancing, there are many things that you won’t be prepared for. You can be the most talented web designer or web developer in the world but there’s more to freelancing than just the design and code. The following resources are invaluable when dealing with life as a freelancer.

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Introducing: TeachMeJavaScript.com

Dave — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:06:04 +0000

I’ve decided that it’s time that I expanded my skillset and delved a bit more deeply into programming languages and made an effort to learn JavaScript properly.

Therefore, I thought that it would be a good idea to document my progress and have created a blog over at TeachMeJavaScript.com which will detail everything that I learn as I progress.

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