Archive for the 'Javascript' Category

24 Ways to impress your friends

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

Something I’m enjoying reading at the moment: 24 ways to impress your friends is a sort of geek’s advent calendar. Each day there’s a new tip covering some of the latest techniques in standards-based (mostly!) web design.

All of them are well thought out and well written.

Web Design Mistakes 2: Javascript Abuse

Monday, December 12th, 2005

This one is really quite simple — if you’ve built a site that uses Javascript, and you care about reaching any sort of audience, you need to do the following:

  • Find a browser that will let you disable Javascript (most do).
  • Disable Javascript (I bet you saw that coming)
  • Try using your site

If your site is well designed, you’ll still be able to access all the content without Javascript. It might not look as pretty, and some of the will be gone. But at least you can read everything, see the images, and move from page to page. (more…)