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Archive for March 2009
The last few weeks have been stupidly busy with too many changes in focus but one of the most important steps forward has been the first full html5 website I’ve completed. Continue reading ‘HTML5 - the first full implementation’ »
There’s been a lot of griping today about the use of an unordered list for a navigation menu (from @calevans among others). Although it is a generally accepted practice with the argument that a navigation menu is an unordered list of links, it’s not too difficult to find an alternative that is just as efficient is it? What’s the most basic code we could use as an alternative?
In html5 you could use the following: -
<nav>
<a title="First link additional text" href="#">Link 1</a>
<a title="Second link additional text" href="#">Link 2</a>
<a title="Third link additional text" href="#">Link 3</a>
</nav>
with css to sort out positioning and look.
For some specific layouts you may want to specify a :first-child pseudo class or a class="last" on a link.
For HTML4 strict just substitute a <div class="menu"> for <nav>.
So, not as complicated as I once thought!
I’ll hold my hand up right now and confess to being bit stupid, I was really disappointed with my score in a recent php proficiency test and most of my downfall was bitwise operators (the rest was array functions I’d never needed to use before and I’ll tackle that in another post).
Reeling out of Hank’s Microsoft talk I rushed to get a seat for my ‘must see’ talk of the day Myphp-busters: symphony framework. I’ve been dabbling with frameworks for a while as they seem to be becoming a vital tool to increase productivity (especially important for us freelancers) and aid collaboration and team-working by reducing ownership of code (ie. everyone has a better chance of following the code in that clever widget you just built).
Continue reading ‘PHPUK Part 3: Comedy, Chris and Closing’ »