Dustin came up with the idea to have the first annual naked day. A day on which your site shows off all it’s white spots. So, no stylesheets for 24 hours. The reason behind this is to see how userfriendly your site is to people without css, and that includes (to an extent) screenreaders.
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This topic is quite old already. Every ‘important’ webdeveloper says to follow standards and don’t use tables for layout as there is CSS. But still, almost all beginners still start at tables. Easy to learn, fast to builld why go to CSS?
Search engines
You want visitors on your site, don’t you? Well, search engines don’t […]

As developers gradually start to get used to using css based layouts instead of tables there is a new pitfill waiting around the corner, the use of semantically incorrect code. There isn’t much you can’t do with div and span, add a <a> element you’re almost at the end of the small list of elements […]

There are enough different ways to define font-size in css, but what do they all mean, and when to use them? Three are variable sizes, depending on their surroundings to figure out what size they’re shown at. Those are the em, ex and px. The rest are absolute heights, for when you really need to […]