Archive for the ‘code’ tag
Accessible Table Markup Demonstration
Here is a quick demonstration of an average table written with accessibility in mind. While tables can be much more complex than this, I feel that this example represents a lower level of complexity most commonly used today. For more complex table demonstrations, lets have a quick search in Google.
Character Entity References are your Friends
When you are writing content to be served on the Internet, be sure to use proper character entity references for common characters such as ampersands, double quotes, and more.
Dreamweaver Works for Me
In 2001 I learned how to write HTML using Microsoft Front Page while taking a Web Design and Development course at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Because of its terrible code support and counterintuitive user interface, it wasn’t very long before I knew that Front Page was the wrong application for me.
The next application I tried was Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is now Adobe Dreamweaver, somewhere around version 4. Years were spent using Dreamweaver and I was always quite satisfied with it. During that time I would often be told by so-called veteran developers that “Dreamweaver is for amateurs” and that I should “step up to a non-WYSIWYG editor, etc.”
