A community of multi-talented individuals from across the Midlands UK, that come together to discuss all the things web and share their knowledge, skills and talents.
Welcome to the Multipack
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A community of multi-talented individuals from across the Midlands UK, that come together to discuss all the things web and share their knowledge, skills and talents.
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his section ensures that a UK government website is developed to serve the largest possible audience using the broadest range of systems (hardware and software platforms) and that the needs of users with disabilities are considered.
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Established as a resource for Web developers and designers who want to read and write about their trade. Monday By Noon works to bring articles based on many aspects of the Web, with a focus on Web standards, semantics, accessibility notes, and thoughts
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with JavaScript, CSS and HTML
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just use the carriage return entity in your title attribute,
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Comprehensive review of abbreviations and their semantic meaning in HTML
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by Tantek
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Tips for webmasters by W3C - use class with semantics in mind.
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Explains how browsers use doctype sniffing to switch the layout mode between the quirks mode and the standards mode.
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Perl and PHP patched versions of Smartypants for ligatures .
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From plain HTML to a styled page in an animated gif
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A JavaScript fix to support abbreviations in Internet Explorer.
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Bulk/Batch HTML Validation, Link Checking and more… Nikita is a service that validates and link checks your entire Web site and reports on what she finds. All you have to do is give Nikita your home page URL and she’ll take it from there.
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What is Divitis and how to cure it.
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Howto explains how you can make preformatted text wrap on all browsers when making websites.
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An article will concentrate on the support offered by three important web based mail clients: Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail.
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The following guidelines in this article will help bring your markup to the next level. Talking about best-practices and semantics. From Digital Web Magazine by Garrett Dimon.
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This page contains the 252 allowed entities in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0, as outlined in section 24 of the official HTML 4 specifications, published by the W3C.
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Most Web forms would have improved usability if the Reset button was removed.
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The competition to become the next markup language for the Web is heating up. This article takes a look at what’s cool and what’s uncool about the competing technologies.
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Essential links for getting starting with Web Design by Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis.
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Accessible Form Guidelines, The do’s & don’ts of accessible form design, Complete with example forms and accessible JavaScript form tricks.
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Written for clients and others who want to know at least enough to understand what?s going on within their pages and how to create a solid, semantically correct webpage.
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Outlook 2007 will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use the crippled Microsoft Word rendering engine. An article on the state of HTML emails from the Campaign Monitor Blog.
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Roger Johansson explains when to use tables and explores basic to complex data structures marked up with semantic tables.
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Web Usability introduces data tables and describes basic, complex and very complex data structures using semantic tables.
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A short article that details a the elements and attributes used to create structured tables. Starting with a simplified table and add structural and logical markup, introducing one element at a time.
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Position is Everything solution using :after to contain floats without source markup.
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Ed Eliot discussing the merits and pitfalls of different methods for containing floats with CSS.
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A code highlighter plugin for jQuery
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A powerful and highly configurable jQuery plugin for validating form inputs.
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You Know You’re In Design Hell When You See…
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This lookup allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks by Left Logic
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Quirksmode discusses the problems of containing floats and a solution.
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An article about the button element from Particletree, comments showing how this is a bad idea.
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A CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
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A collection of Django template filters that help prettify your web typography by preventing ugly quotes and widows and providing CSS hooks to style some special cases.
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A lightweight jQuery plugin which allows you to turn any textarea tag into a quick tag editor in an inobtrusive manner.
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A PHP class which allows you to access HTML values by an SQL like syntax.
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An analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. December 2005.
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The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
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markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own system.
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Paragraphs are punctuation, the punctuation of ideas. After selecting a typeface, choosing the right paragraph style is one of the cornerstones of good typography. This is a brief inquiry into paragraph style for the Web by Jon Tan.
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Font Burner is the easiest way to add great fonts to your website. Just pick one of over 1000 quality fonts, add a chunk of code to your site, then sit back and admire your beautiful typography.
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Showcases the best single page website designs on the web.
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An effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
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Document the best usages of CSS font stacks, which examples of common font types, and the best replacements for headings as well as paragraphs. Great reference.
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The 1Kb CSS Grid’s convenient row and column syntax provide all the necessary scaffolding.
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A small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that may not yet support these new technologies. Uses feature detection to test the current browser against upcoming features like rgba(), border-radius, CSS Transitions and many more. These are currently being implemented across browsers and with Modernizr you can start using them right now, with an easy way to control the fallbacks for browsers that don?t yet support them.
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An open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. Allows you to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs.
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Trevor Morris runs us through how JavaScript can be designed to take its configuration directly from your markup. Using the model of a jQuery plugin, learn how adding a simple class name can control how your code functions.
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Sexy forms with jQuery which masks your standard form controls with custom themed controls. It works in sync with your real form elements to ensure accessibility and compatibility.
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Is a client-side templating plugin for jQuery, a rewrite of John Resig?s awesome JavaScript Micro-Templating utility.
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An extremely fast and lightweight syntax highlighter. It has dynamic loading of syntax source files and integrates cleanly using CSS or modelines.
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HTML5 <video> player with custom styled controls.
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A javascript-based video player that uses the HTML5 video functionality built into advanced browsers. In general, the benefit of using an HTML5 player is a consistent look between browsers.
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Flash video player for the web.
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An easily customizable/themeable pure Javascript driven HTML5 video player, with Flash fallback only whenever there´s no native H.264 support available. A JS wrapper for the new HTML5 video and audio elements. It solves cross browser and compatibility issues, adds some eye candy to the native players and provides useful non standard features.
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The First HTML5 Mobile App Framework allows you to develop web apps that look and feel native on Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices.
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A jQuery plugin created by Artlogic for creating dynamic character and background animation in pure HTML and JavaScript. It’s a simple, light-weight plugin with a few simple methods for creating animated sprites and dynamic scrolling backgrounds.
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A plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, which will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table.
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HTML5 video player using jQuery, will fallback to Flash.
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Like a lot of developers, we start every HTML project with the same set of HTML and CSS templates. We’ve been using these files for a long time and we’ve progressively added bits and pieces to them as our own personal best practices have evolved. Now that modern browsers are starting to support some of the really useful parts of HTML5 and CSS3, it’s time for an update, and we thought we’d put it out there for everyone to use. By no means do we see this as the end-all and beat-all, but we think it’s a fairly good starting place that anyone can take and make their own.
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HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass’s base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on. Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it’s just got some tricks to get your project off the ground quickly and right-footed.
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Logic-less templates. Available in Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Erlang, PHP, Perl, Go, Lua, ooc, C++, ActionScript, Java, ColdFusion, Scala, and for node.js.
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Enables you to create rich, connected mini-desktop applications using the latest web standards. Create a desktop presence for your web app, favorite web app, or create something entirely new.
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HTML editor and PHP editor for Mac. As an HTML editor, Taco HTML Edit empowers its users to rapidly create their own websites. It is designed exclusively for Mac OS X and has many advanced features including spell checking, live browser previewing, PHP previewing, syntax checking, and much more.
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Develop native iOS apps with HTML & Javascript.
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A tool to help turn minimally marked-up plain text<br />
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A static site generator written in PHP.
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Create websites which are hosted via Dropbox.
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Features HTML5 baseline, base CSS, PHP Active Class, Smooth scroll to top, Placeholder fallback, basic SEO, Sticky footer, Modernizr and jQuery.
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Creates a template of sorts, absent of design or layout, that will help you avoid some of the major rendering problems with the most common email clients out there ? Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc. While not plug and play it provides some helpful examples and snippets that will keep your email design rendering as true-to-form as possible.
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Bite-sized CSS & HTML nuggets.