User Interface Trends » xhtml http://uitrends.com A place to catalog, discuss, and rate trends in user interface design Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:36:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Get Your Name Listed In a “For Dummies” Web Design Book http://uitrends.com/2010/05/20/get-your-name-listed-in-a-for-dummies-web-design-book/ http://uitrends.com/2010/05/20/get-your-name-listed-in-a-for-dummies-web-design-book/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 00:59:39 +0000 Jeff Noble http://uitrends.com/?p=2048 Greetings ladies and gentlemen and Russ, I’ve just started working on the 7th edition of HTML, XHTML & CSS For Dummies and yes, before you say it, Wiley publishing picked the perfect “dummy” for the job (insert sitcom laugh track here – har, har, har).  Anyway, I’ve created a new Twitter account for the upcoming version of the book and we are going to list the first 1,000 followers as supporters. Why? Why not! That’s why. So if you are interested in web design, HTML, XHTML, CSS or you just really enjoy seeing your name printed in a book, all you need to do is follow this Twitter account:

http://twitter.com/dummieshtml

That’s it. Enjoy!

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If you are a web designer and upon viewing the source code (Firefox shortcut: Ctrl + U or Internet Explorer longcut: Alt + V + C) of a recent project of yours, you happen to see anything that resembles any of the following tags:

  • <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”>
  • <table> (For layout)
  • <td>
  • <tr>
  • <IFRAME>
  • <frame>
  • <frameset>
  • <hr>
  • <br>
  • <font face=”Arial” size=”1″>
  • <bold>
  • <strong>

    OK, this has been removed. Thanks for the feedback!

  • <center>
  • <map name=”Map”>
  • <area shape=”circle” coords=”101,396,82″ href=”#”>
  • <b>

Please stop! I know these tags have been your trusty friends that you’ve gotten to know very well over the years and you’re having a hard time leaving them, but what you might not know is they are creating more work for you, slowing development, creating unorganized code, painful website updates, larger file size and slower times for your website visitors. I beg you, please join us here in the modern web design community where CSS and XHTML is your new best friend. I promise you will love them and in return they will honor and cherish you from here until eternity… or maybe just until CSS3 and HTML5 are widely accepted and we rightfully trash the current standards and start the cycle all over again.

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