Archives for “Web Development”

XHTML 2 is Dead

Wow, I didn't see this coming. Zeldman reports that the W3C is not going to renew the XHTML 2 working group's charter this year. That ...


When we started redesigning the Pop Art blog, one of the chief requirements was to integrate everyone's Twitter feeds into the site. In addition to ...


Frequently, my coworkers will forget their Bugzilla passwords. They come to me, because I manage it, and I always send them to the reset password ...


An Event Apart Seattle 2009

The night before An Event Apart, I was at a party with some college friends. When they found out I was in town for a ...


I'm sure you've all heard the Fireworks vs. Photoshop debate. When I started at Pop Art, I was a Photoshop user. It was the application ...


Pop Art Redesign

The redesign of the Pop Art site is live! I'm really proud of the work I did on this, and I'll write a longer post ...


An Event Apart San Francisco 2008

I've managed to attend An Event Apart every year so far, and this year was particularly exciting because the nearest location was in San Francisco. ...


The Survey for People Who Make Websites 2008

The guys over at A List Apart have posted the Survey for People Who Make Websites 2008. Despite the awkward name, this survey is worth ...


IE Double-Float Bug

Has anyone seen this problem before and have any idea how to solve it? In firefox, the text wraps around both floats correctly. In IE6/7, ...


Version Targeting and IE8 Followup

Hooray! The feedback from the web development community convinced the IE development team to change their minds about the default setting for version targeting in ...


Version Targeting and IE8

Previously on Web Developer Controversies: Aaron Gustafson from the Internet Explorer development team announced that IE8 will use a META tag to kick the engine ...


The Email Standards Project

In 1998, Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project to fight for better support of web standards from the browser manufacturers and web developers. It ...


Pop Art is Hiring

Pop Art, the interactive marketing agency where I work, is currently hiring for several positions, including an account director, a .NET web developer, and most ...


Duplicate Work is a Bug

"You’ll sometimes hear people joke that good programmers are 'lazy', and what this means is simply that good programmers tend to see duplicated work as ...


A Few Dumb Questions

"I’d rather answer a few dumb questions than put up with a few dumb assumptions." -- Aaron Cannon, in reply to a question about whether he ...


41 Useful CSS Links

I was clearing out my bookmarks recently, and noticed that I had a pretty large collection of web development and CSS-related bookmarks that I never ...


Web Design for Sara Ryan

In January, I got an email from Sara Ryan, asking if I would be interested in designing a website for her: Hi Scott -- I found ...


Skinning Community Server 2007

We recently upgraded the Pop Art Blog to Community Server 2007, and I was assigned to upgrade the templates. Dave produced a wonderful comp, and ...


Urn Will Totally Get This

Annie: What in the world is a WYSIWYG editor? Scott: Oh, it stands for "What You See Is What You Get." It means one of those ...


For a recent project, I found myself having to convert 60+ product detail pages from the old table-based format to the new XML-based format. I ...


I had to make a slight tweak to a page on a site with a content-management system today. After spending a few minutes unraveling the ...


Selling Web Standards is Hard

I recently had a fascinating conversation with our VP of Client Services. Long story short, I learned that selling web standards is difficult, because many ...


Citations, Emphasis and Italics

Wanna get a headache? Go type "html book titles italic em" into Google and read for about 15 minutes. What you're looking at is an ...


An Event Apart Seattle 2007

Last year, I attended An Event Apart 2006 in Seattle. It was a great event, although I remember it being really rushed, because they seven ...


CSS Naked Day ‘07

It's that time of year again when standards-conscious web designers shed their stylesheets and let their sites run around, exposing their raw markup to the ...