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HTML tables. Not totally bad. Part three: Putting tables into practise

James — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:37:12 +0000

As promised last week, here is the third and final part of my “HTML tables. Not totally bad.” series. In part one I expressed my frustration with the misunderstandings surrounding the use of tables in standards based web design. In part two I talked through the elements available as part of the table and some of [...]

Sorry for the silence

James — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:44:34 +0000

This is one of those “I’m still alive and kicking” type posts. It’s been over a month since my last post, and for that I apologise. The last thing I wrote was the second installment of my series on the HTML table, complete with promise of a third installment to follow before Christmas. That didn’t happen. In [...]

HTML tables: Not totally bad. Part two: An introduction to the table element and its associates

James — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:00:20 +0000

Last week I wrote about my frustrations both with misguided individuals who believe that HTML tables are the result of the Devil’s work and the lack of information available to those web designers who are happy to use tables, but need a little guidance in doing so.This week I introduce the table properly, hopefully enlightening [...]

HTML tables: Not totally bad. Part one

James — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:30:09 +0000

Many moons ago when I was just venturing out into the World of web design and development I learnt to code up HTML designs using trusted <table> elements and their accompanying assortment of rows, table data elements, colspans and other such favorites. Then, only a few months into my web coding journey I read an article [...]

How card counting could make content personalisation possible

James — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:11 +0000

Just over a year ago I worked on a project that had a need for what they called “a content personalisation engine”. What they meant by that was some sort of system that could do the following: Categorise content into a structured hierarchy Deliver the content to known users Track each user’s interaction with the content Analise the interaction [...]