Posts Tagged: web standards

Why should you care if your website is built with tables or CSS?

June 01st, 2007

Yesterday, I was invited to have lunch at Twin Fish Creative‘s monthly staff get together. Since, I’ve been doing a lot of work with them, I thought I would take the opportunity to explain what I do to their Photoshop files and more specifically how CSS is used.

What’s this CSS?
HTML tags were originally designed to define the content of a document. They were supposed to say “This is a header”, “This is a paragraph”, “This is a table”, by using tags like <h1>, <p>, <table>, and so on. The layout of the document was supposed to be taken care of by the browser, without using any formatting tags.

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April 5th is CSS Naked Day!

April 04th, 2007

If you happen to stumble upon our blog on Arpil 5th, you may notice that the site doesn’t look quite right. That’s because we’ve turned off our CSS for the day.

Css refers to the “Cascading Style Sheet“. This CSS file contains all the information about the presentation of our blog. Colours, font size, font types, width of columns, etc… It’s all in there. By turning off the css we’re showing you our “body”. Yes its a bit goofy, but the idea behind this is to promote Web Standards. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure. In other words, without the css, you should still be able to figure out the site and navigate through it.

Don’t worry, the site will be pretty on the 6th.