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The ever-present sidebar. It’s a staple of the ‘net. You see it everywhere. It’s an accepted design convention allowing visitors to quickly recognize it among millions of sites as a place to find all kinds of auxiliary information.
Now we’re all aware of the importance of keeping our classes clean, meaning that they shouldn’t contain presentational [...]

I recently covered proper URI design after which I was rightly chastised for not following my own advice. Now I’d like to cover their correct implementation via hyperlinks. Knowing how to correctly create hyperlinks is very important for several reasons, not the least of which being that hyperlinks are the most basic and foundational component [...]

Ara argues the case for semantics in practical terms.

Ever wonder what an em dash was for? Ever heard of an en dash? Did you know that they were quite different from the simple hyphen? Well, if you want to learn more, read this article entitled En Dashes and Em Dashes by Get It Write Online.
Update: According to: “The Trouble With EM ’n EN [...]

Don’t get me wrong. If you know me, you know that I’m the first one to push for valid markup. I’m a perfectionist at heart, and nothing pleases me more than seeing that beautiful message on the W3C’s Validator: “This page is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!” But the more I think about it and the [...]