“2000s” Archive (3)

Frontend Dogma is a constant work in progress, but that’s particularly true for the 2000s and 2010s. Reach out to suggest articles, videos, and books from the time (including your own).

Learning Web Development (by) · Jul 21, 2005 · learning, career
The End of CAPTCHA? (by/via) · Jul 18, 2005 · captcha, accessibility
Scrolling and Scrollbars · Jul 11, 2005 · scrolling, usability, design
On Having Layout (by) · Jun 30, 2005 · user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer, hacks
XHTML Because It Has a DOCTYPE (by) · Jun 28, 2005 · xhtml, html
What Is AJAX? (by) · Jun 22, 2005 · terminology, ajax
Open Source Design? (by) · Jun 20, 2005 · foss, design, html, css
Lab Experiment: Elastic Zoom Layouts (by) · Jun 19, 2005 · accessibility, zooming, screen-magnification
Quick Reminder on Vendor Relations (via) · Jun 17, 2005 · business-relations, collaboration
Why Generic XML on the Web Is a Bad Idea (by) · May 31, 2005 · html, xml, semantics
Who Cares About Semantics Anyway? (by) · May 30, 2005 · semantics, html, xhtml
Validation Quiz Explanation (by) · May 19, 2005 · html, xhtml, xml, conformance
Questions on XHTML2 (by) · May 17, 2005 · xhtml, semantics
Successful Web Development Methodologies Article (via) · May 13, 2005 · processes, project-management, agile
STR: SwishMAX Text Replacement · May 11, 2005 · image-replacement, techniques, flash, javascript
Validate Your Input! (via) · May 9, 2005 · validation, security
Language Tags (by) · May 6, 2005 · html, metadata, localization, internationalization
Markup Content Models (by) · May 5, 2005 · html, conformance
An Experiment With “ins” and “del” (by) · May 5, 2005 · html, experiments
HTML Comments in Scripts (by) · May 4, 2005 · html, xhtml, javascript, comments
Personalised RSS and Cookie Sharing (by) · Apr 24, 2005 · syndication, rss, cookies
Character Encodings and Input (via) · Apr 19, 2005 · unicode, character-references, conformance, php
Why MIME Types Are Not Like Handing Someone a Cup of Coffee Saying It’s Hot Chocolate (by) · Apr 17, 2005 · mime-types
XAML (or Avalon) (by) · Apr 15, 2005 · xaml
Avalon/XAML First Look (by) · Apr 14, 2005 · xaml
The Future: HTML or XHTML (by) · Apr 10, 2005 · html, xhtml, visions, comparisons
Definitive Solution to Image Replacement · Apr 10, 2005 · image-replacement, techniques
Semantic Markup (by) · Apr 1, 2005 · semantics, html
Spruced-Up Site Maps (by/via) · Mar 30, 2005 · html, sitemaps
Cascading Style Sheets (by) · Mar 29, 2005 · studies, css, history, dsssl
MIR: Malarkey Image Replacement (by) · Mar 27, 2005 · image-replacement, techniques, css
Super Simple Clearing Floats (by) · Mar 15, 2005 · css, floats
On Valid CSS (by) · Mar 13, 2005 · css, conformance
Apache Performance Testing (by/via) · Mar 13, 2005 · servers, apache, performance, testing
IE7 Wishlist (by) · Mar 10, 2005 · user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer, wish-lists
XForms Myths (by) · Mar 8, 2005 · xforms, myths
XForms (by) · Feb 27, 2005 · xforms, css
The Power of Pure CSS (by+/via) · Feb 24, 2005 · css
Documentation, Documentation, Documentation (by+/via) · Feb 23, 2005 · documentation, jsdoc, javascript, tooling
Extending a Markup Language (by) · Feb 22, 2005 · software-design, xml, namespaces, extensibility
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications (by/via) · Feb 18, 2005 · ajax, html, xhtml, css, dom, javascript, web-apps
Problems the New IE Could Cause (by) · Feb 16, 2005 · user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer, hacks, doctype-switching
IE7 (by) · Feb 15, 2005 · user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer
Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals (by+/via) · Feb 15, 2005 · unicode, encoding, internationalization, standards
Basics of Search Engine Optimisation (by) · Feb 3, 2005 · fundamentals, seo
Validating a Custom DTD (by/via) · Feb 1, 2005 · xhtml, conformance
JavaScript Triggers (by/via) · Feb 1, 2005 · javascript
JSON and XML (by) · Jan 24, 2005 · json, xml
RSS 1.1: RDF Site Summary (by+) · Jan 23, 2005 · syndication, rss, rdf, xml
<div style= (by) · Jan 21, 2005 · html, semantics
Introduction to Browser-Specific CSS Hacks (by/via) · Jan 20, 2005 · introductions, user-agents, css, hacks
Big, Stark, and Chunky (by/via) · Jan 11, 2005 · accessibility, zooming, screen-magnification, examples
DHTML ’05 (by) · Jan 6, 2005 · dhtml
Permanent Redirect in PHP (by) · Jan 2, 2005 · php
PHP Predictions for 2005 (by/via) · Dec 30, 2004 · php, visions
Alt Attribute (Alt Tag, Alt Tooltip) (by) · Dec 16, 2004 · html, alt-text, accessibility
HTML Tags (by) · Dec 10, 2004 · html, terminology, comparisons
The Most Hated Advertising Techniques · Dec 6, 2004 · monetization, techniques, pop-ups
Extending HTML4 Forms (by) · Dec 4, 2004 · html, forms, xforms
The IDE Divide (by/via) · Nov 26, 2004 · code-editors
60,000 Lines of JavaScript (by/via) · Nov 22, 2004 · javascript, php
Invasion of the Body Switchers (by+/via) · Nov 19, 2004 · design, accessibility, css
10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications · Nov 19, 2004 · asp-net, iis, microsoft, servers, caching, compression, tips-and-tricks
W3C Documents the Architecture of the Web (by+/via) · Nov 12, 2004 · interviews, w3c, architecture, web
Decline of Brands? (by) · Nov 9, 2004 · branding
Branding Is Dead? (by) · Nov 9, 2004 · branding
Getting Started: Apache mod_rewrite Methods (by/via) · Nov 5, 2004 · introductions, servers, apache
Uncollapsing Margins (by) · Nov 3, 2004 · css
sJIR: scalable Jens Image Replacement · Nov 2, 2004 · image-replacement, techniques, fonts, javascript
The Four Essentials of Modern Web Design (via) · Oct 27, 2004 · conformance, accessibility, semantics, principles, quality
Rediscovering Java (by/via) · Oct 21, 2004 · java
Iterative Design (by) · Oct 13, 2004 · design, processes
Open Source vs. Closed Source (by) · Oct 7, 2004 · foss, economics, comparisons
JavaScript Security · Oct 4, 2004 · javascript, security
Checkboxes vs. Radio Buttons · Sep 27, 2004 · forms, comparisons, guidelines, usability
Resolution Dependent Layout (by) · Sep 21, 2004 · responsive-design, javascript
My Favorite Tags (via) · Sep 16, 2004 · coldfusion
“min-height: fixed;” (by) · Sep 16, 2004 · css
More Usable Forms—Controlling Scroll Position (via) · Sep 15, 2004 · forms, usability, scrolling, html, javascript, coldfusion
The Need for Web Design Standards · Sep 13, 2004 · usability, design, conventions
GIF Hacking (by) · Sep 8, 2004 · images, gif, png, dithering, compression
File Upload Security (by) · Sep 8, 2004 · html, file-handling, security
Ten CSS Tricks—Corrected and Improved (by) · Sep 7, 2004 · css, tips-and-tricks
HTML Overlays (by) · Sep 7, 2004 · html, xul, overlays
Undoing html.css and Using Debug Scaffolding (by) · Sep 6, 2004 · css, resetting, debugging
HTML Overlays (by) · Aug 30, 2004 · overlays, html, xml, techniques
Introducing sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text (by) · Aug 29, 2004 · introductions, image-replacement, techniques, flash
Link Relationships (by) · Aug 25, 2004 · html, links, metadata, semantics
Quick Guide to XHTML (by) · Aug 19, 2004 · guides, xhtml, html, conformance, mime-types, unicode
Fitts’s Law (by) · Aug 19, 2004 · principles, design, usability
Why Specs Matter (by) · Aug 16, 2004 · standards
Perma Your RSS! (by) · Aug 10, 2004 · syndication, rss, links
Enhance Usability by Highlighting Search Terms (by/via) · Aug 10, 2004 · usability, searching, php
URI (IRI) Design (by) · Aug 5, 2004 · urls, http, localization, internationalization
Why “document.write()” Doesn’t Work in XML (by) · Aug 4, 2004 · javascript, dom, xml
First Things First: IA and CSS (by+) · Jul 16, 2004 · slides, information-architecture, css
Extending HTML (by) · Jul 12, 2004 · html, standards, processes, xhtml, namespaces, extensibility, apple
Spot the Security Hole (by/via) · Jul 3, 2004 · php, security
State of the WHAT (by) · Jun 29, 2004 · whatwg, web-forms, forms, user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer
Integrated Web Design: Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management (by/via) · Jun 25, 2004 · css, hacks, maintainability, strategies
An Introduction to Information Architecture (via) · Jun 21, 2004 · introductions, information-architecture
Using Accesskeys Is Easy (via) · Jun 20, 2004 · html, accessibility, keyboard-navigation
Dynamic Text Replacement (via) · Jun 15, 2004 · image-replacement, techniques, php, javascript
PHP and “application/xhtml+xml” (by) · Jun 14, 2004 · php, xhtml, mime-types
XHTML Is Invalid HTML (by) · Jun 13, 2004 · xhtml, html, conformance
How Microsoft Lost the API War (by) · Jun 13, 2004 · microsoft, apis, history
Custom 404 (by) · Jun 8, 2004 · error-pages, servers, apache, microsoft, iis
Fragment of HTML? (by) · Jun 5, 2004 · html, atom, syndication
Tables vs. CSS—a Fight to the Death (by/via) · May 27, 2004 · html, tables, css, layout, comparisons
Atom (or Web Syndication) (by) · May 25, 2004 · syndication, atom, semantics
The Future of the Web (by) · May 21, 2004 · web-platform, visions, web-forms, forms
Print It Your Way (by/via) · May 21, 2004 · print, css
Future of the Web, a Must-Read (by) · May 21, 2004 · web-platform, visions, principles, mozilla, opera
Viewport, Canvas, Root (by) · May 19, 2004 · terminology
About PHP Usage (by/via) · May 18, 2004 · php
Clearing Floats (by/via) · May 16, 2004 · css, floats
Web Forms 2.0 (by/via) · May 14, 2004 · web-forms, forms
Separation: The Web Designer’s Dilemma (via) · May 14, 2004 · content-management, best-practices, maintainability
Tidy HTML (by/via) · May 10, 2004 · html, php, tooling
Evaluating CSS Hacks (by/via) · May 4, 2004 · css, hacks
Stupid Compression Tricks (by) · May 1, 2004 · ip, compression, optimization
Tags vs. Elements (by) · May 1, 2004 · html, terminology, comparisons
What Is Web Accessibility? (by/via) · Apr 30, 2004 · accessibility
Server-Sent DOM Events (by) · Apr 28, 2004 · servers, dom, events
Safari CSS Effects (by) · Apr 24, 2004 · user-agents, apple, safari, css, effects
Serializing PHP Data Structures for JavaScript (by/via) · Apr 22, 2004 · php, javascript
JavaScript and Security (by/via) · Apr 19, 2004 · javascript, security
Embedding Flash Without “<embed>” (by) · Apr 12, 2004 · flash, html
IE vs. Image Replacement (by) · Apr 8, 2004 · user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer, image-replacement, techniques
How to Sell Accessibility (by/via) · Apr 6, 2004 · how-tos, accessibility, advocacy
Manipulate the User Agent for Accurate Site Stats (via) · Apr 2, 2004 · user-agents, analytics
Python Just Got a Whole Lot Cooler (by) · Mar 29, 2004 · python
Version Control and Web Development (by/via) · Mar 29, 2004 · version-control, cvs
Handling Content From Strangers (by/via) · Mar 26, 2004 · content, security
Accessible Pop-Up Links (by/via) · Mar 19, 2004 · pop-ups, links, accessibility
Introducing Markdown (by/via) · Mar 15, 2004 · introductions, markdown
CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death (by/via) · Mar 5, 2004 · css, images, sprites, performance
Zebra Tables (via) · Mar 5, 2004 · tables, css, effects
Great CSS Design (by) · Feb 29, 2004 · css, design, link-lists
CSS Drop Shadows (by/via) · Feb 27, 2004 · css, images, shadows, effects
Configure Web Logs in Apache (by/via) · Feb 23, 2004 · servers, apache, logging, configuration
Is Configuration With Arrays a Bad Smell? (by/via) · Feb 20, 2004 · configuration, arrays, php
Targeted Email Newsletters Show Continued Strength · Feb 17, 2004 · email, user-experience, visions
Get Off Your RSS! (via) · Feb 17, 2004 · syndication, rss, tooling, link-lists
Line Endings in JavaScript (by/via) · Feb 16, 2004 · javascript
Is the “head” Element Obsolete? (by) · Feb 8, 2004 · html, http, metadata
Which Browsers to Support? (by/via) · Feb 6, 2004 · user-agents, support, progressive-enhancement
Lazy PHP (by/via) · Feb 6, 2004 · php
CSS Validation (by) · Feb 5, 2004 · css, conformance
CSS Design: Custom Underlines (via) · Feb 2, 2004 · css, effects, links
Error Handling and Web Language Design (by) · Jan 22, 2004 · errors, standards, conformance, html
The Perfect 404 (by/via) · Jan 16, 2004 · error-pages, javascript, http, usability
CSS: Hacking Around (by) · Jan 12, 2004 · css
Abstracting CSS (by) · Jan 7, 2004 · css, html, complexity, maintainability
Extensibility and Interoperability (by) · Jan 3, 2004 · standards, extensibility, interoperability, profiling
Proposed XHTML Module: Web Forms 2.0 (by) · Dec 17, 2003 · xhtml, web-forms, forms
Achieve Results With Banner Exchange (via) · Dec 13, 2003 · branding, monetization, seo
Night of the Image Map (via) · Dec 12, 2003 · css, techniques, images
Enhancing Structural Markup With JavaScript (by/via) · Dec 10, 2003 · html, javascript
The Mystery of Why Only Four Properties Apply to Table Columns (by) · Dec 2, 2003 · html, tables, css
JavaScript Image Replacement (by/via) · Nov 21, 2003 · javascript, image-replacement, techniques
Data Tables · Nov 20, 2003 · html, tables
How to Save Web Accessibility From Itself (by/via) · Nov 14, 2003 · how-tos, accessibility, w3c, wcag, standards
Keeping Navigation Current With PHP (via) · Nov 7, 2003 · navigation, php
sorttable: Make All Your Tables Sortable (by) · Nov 6, 2003 · libraries, javascript, tables, sorting
IE × 3! (by) · Nov 6, 2003 · user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer, testing
Sliding Doors of CSS II (by/via) · Oct 30, 2003 · css, images, techniques
Is Bloated CSS the New HTML? (by) · Oct 27, 2003 · css, performance, caching
Sliding Doors of CSS (by/via) · Oct 20, 2003 · css, images, techniques
Facts and Opinion About Fahrner Image Replacement (by/via) · Oct 20, 2003 · image-replacement, accessibility
By Logical Extension (by) · Oct 20, 2003 · css, selectors, performance
Search Engine Optimisation for Web Developers (via) · Oct 13, 2003 · seo
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) (by) · Oct 8, 2003 · fundamentals, unicode
Generate PDFs With PHP (via) · Oct 1, 2003 · php, pdf, code-generation
Accessibility Notes (by) · Sep 12, 2003 · accessibility, links
Keep CSS Easy (by) · Sep 9, 2003 · css, hacks, user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer
Exploring the Limits of CSS Layout (by/via) · Sep 2, 2003 · css, layout
Usability 101 · Aug 25, 2003 · usability, concepts
“max-width” in Internet Explorer (by) · Aug 20, 2003 · user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer, css
Oh Just Die Already (by) · Aug 18, 2003 · user-agents, netscape
Markup! (by) · Aug 9, 2003 · xforms, xframes, w3c
Image Replacement—With “<span>” · Aug 9, 2003 · image-replacement, techniques
Accessible Image Replacement (by) · Aug 5, 2003 · image-replacement, techniques, accessibility
HTML and Foreign Languages (by) · Jul 29, 2003 · html, unicode, internationalization, accessibility
Style Web Forms Using CSS […] (by/via) · Jul 14, 2003 · forms, css
MIME-Types (by) · Jul 9, 2003 · mime-types, xhtml, php
HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables (via) · May 31, 2003 · html, css
CSS Zen Garden (by) · May 7, 2003 · css, design, examples
CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design (by) · May 7, 2003 · websites, css, design, examples
12 Steps to Faster Flash (via) · Apr 30, 2003 · performance, flash
Will Plain-Text Ads Continue to Rule? · Apr 21, 2003 · monetization
Understanding Web Accessibility (by) · Apr 18, 2003 · accessibility
Table-Less Design (by) · Apr 8, 2003 · design, css, layout
Weblogs vs. Old Media (by) · Apr 4, 2003 · blogging, comparisons
Interview—Rachel Andrew, Dreamweaver Task Force (by+/via) · Mar 27, 2003 · interviews, code-editors, macromedia, dreamweaver, wysiwyg, standards
RSS Standardization (Again) (by) · Mar 25, 2003 · syndication, rss, standards
Only Use “em” and “%” Units! (by) · Feb 21, 2003 · css, units
URLs vs. XHTML (by) · Feb 17, 2003 · urls, xhtml, conformance
How Ann Navarro Killed the HTML Writer’s Guild (by) · Jan 29, 2003 · html, community
Google PageRank—Democracy or Corporate Muscle? (via) · Jan 16, 2003 · google, seo, sem, pagerank
Build Accessible Online Forms (by/via) · Jan 7, 2003 · accessibility, forms, html, css
The GIR Image Replacement Technique (GIR) · Jan 4, 2003 · image-replacement, techniques
Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2002 · Dec 22, 2002 · design, usability, mistakes, retrospectives
Tantek’s Markup Challenge (by) · Dec 19, 2002 · html, semantics
Effects of CSS-Based Design (by) · Dec 12, 2002 · html, css, conformance, performance
Introduction to CSS Shorthand (by/via) · Dec 11, 2002 · introductions, css, shorthands
Origins of Verdana/Tahoma (by) · Dec 5, 2002 · fonts, typography
Getting Started With XML Security (by/via) · Nov 28, 2002 · introductions, xml, security
Dynamic Site SEO Tips and Hints (by/via) · Nov 28, 2002 · seo, tips-and-tricks
XML Namespaces Explained (by/via) · Nov 27, 2002 · xml, namespaces
Why Semantic Markup Is So Important (by) · Nov 25, 2002 · xhtml, semantics, syndication, rss
Flash and Web-Based Applications · Nov 25, 2002 · flash, web-apps, comparisons
XHTML vs. the World (by) · Nov 24, 2002 · xhtml, rss, syndication, blogging, comparisons
Markup Challenge: aaronsw.com (by) · Nov 24, 2002 · code-reviews, html, semantics
Tag Soup: How UAs Handle “<x> <y> </x> </y>” (by) · Nov 21, 2002 · html, parsing, user-agents
Fancy Paragraphs With CSS (via) · Nov 16, 2002 · css
Content Negotiation in Heterogenous XML Environments (by) · Nov 8, 2002 · mime-types, xml, xhtml, svg, rdf, mathml
Inline XML (via) · Nov 1, 2002 · html, xml, namespaces
Making Flash Usable for Users With Disabilities · Oct 14, 2002 · flash, usability, accessibility
CSS Design: Taming Lists (via) · Sep 27, 2002 · css, design
Rough Guide to the DOM (via) · Sep 18, 2002 · guides, dom, javascript
What Are XForms · Sep 11, 2002 · xforms
Sending XHTML as “text/html” Considered Harmful (by) · Sep 8, 2002 · xhtml, html, mime-types
RDF and RSS (by) · Aug 24, 2002 · semantic-web, rdf, rss, syndication
Valid Garbage In, Valid Garbage Out: Answers (by) · Aug 18, 2002 · html, semantics, conformance
Let Users Control Font Size · Aug 18, 2002 · usability, readability
10 Tips on Writing the Living Web (by/via) · Aug 16, 2002 · writing, content, tips-and-tricks
Manage Your Content With PHP (by/via) · Aug 9, 2002 · content-management, php
Debate—Design Is Not Dead! (via) · Aug 1, 2002 · design
Debate—Design Is Dead! (via) · Aug 1, 2002 · design
Checking UNIX Server Performance (by/via) · Jul 23, 2002 · servers, unix-like, performance
Using XML (by/via) · Jul 19, 2002 · xml
Build Your Own Web Service With PHP and XML-RPC (by/via) · Jul 16, 2002 · web-services, php, xml
Some Early Ideas for HTML (via) · Jul 5, 2002 · html, history
ASP.NET Form Processing Basics (by/via) · Jul 2, 2002 · fundamentals, asp-net, forms
CSS Panic Guide · Jun 15, 2002 · guides, css, link-lists
Anil Dash Does Amazon (by) · Jun 15, 2002 · html, conformance, case-studies
Improving Web Page Loading (by/via) · May 28, 2002 · performance, optimization, tables, javascript
Valid Garbage In, Valid Garbage Out (by) · May 25, 2002 · html, css, conformance
Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability · May 12, 2002 · guidelines, usability, homepages
CSS Design: Going to Print (by/via) · May 10, 2002 · css, design, print
Cache or Check? (via) · Apr 19, 2002 · performance, caching, comparisons
Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE (by/via) · Apr 12, 2002 · html, xhtml, doctype-switching
A Fast Track Guide to ASP.NET (via) · Mar 27, 2002 · guides, asp-net
Accessibility, Web Standards, and Authoring Tools (by/via) · Mar 22, 2002 · accessibility, standards, code-editors
SWF vs. SVG—Which Should You Choose? (via) · Mar 4, 2002 · flash, svg, images, comparisons
Deep Linking Is Good Linking · Mar 3, 2002 · links, usability
Web Services Demystified (by/via) · Feb 27, 2002 · web-services, tech-stacks
How to Write a Better Weblog (via) · Feb 22, 2002 · how-tos, blogging, community
Better Living Through XHTML (by/via) · Feb 15, 2002 · xhtml, html, conformance