Archive for the ‘Web Standards’ Category

Government Web Standards & Recommendations

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

I meant to blog about this a few weeks back, but I forgot. :-(

The New Zealand government has recently released the NZ Government Web Standards and Recommendations v1.0.

This document covers mark-up (HTML, XHTML, CSS), content, page layout, security, you-name-it; the whole gamut of site design and development.

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Let’s get naked!

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

April the 5th is CSS Naked Day, so twoseven.co.nz is going to get naked.

Admittedly, this is kinda pointless, since twoseven.co.nz uses a standard Wordpress template, and so you won’t expect to discover anything remarkable once the ClotheSS come off, but what the hey, I might as well join in.

I challenge any readers to also whip off their CSS and jump in!

Where web standards are at.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Ethan Marcotte writes an excellent article on web standards over at A List Apart.

I must confess that I’m a validation stickler, but this article gives me some good reasons to stick to those standards, apart from sheer, blind pragmatism.

What do you think? Where do you sit?