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Form Layouts With CSS

By Chris Poteet on March 20, 2008

Laying out forms with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a complex topic. In light of many developers doing their first overall CSS layouts they often bail when it comes to laying out forms with CSS and avoiding both tables and line breaks. The code example shows the following: Well-formed, semantic markup CSS for layout and […]

Posted in Design, Tutorials, Usability, User Interface | Tagged CSS, forms, layout, Standards, Web Design, xhtml | 6 Responses

HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2: The Future of Web Standards

By Chris Poteet on March 7, 2008

I recently gave a presentation by this title at the Dayton [Ohio] Web Standards Group Meetup. Here are the slides that I presented as well as my references for the presentation. We also have a new Google Group for all designers interested in standards-based development regardless of location. Further Reading Comparisons XHTML 2 vs HTML 5 […]

Posted in User Interface | Tagged Design, development, html, Standards, w3c, Web Design, xhtml | Leave a response

Objectives in User Interface Design

By Chris Poteet on December 21, 2007

At work we are currently re-doing the architecture of our user interface (UI) layer. We sat down to discuss what our objectives should be in doing this initiative, and I found the objectives so compelling that I think it could apply to any user interface. Below are the major objectives in constructing a UI: consistency, […]

Posted in Design, Information Architecture, Usability, User Interface | Tagged accessibility, Design, navigation, performance, Standards, ui | 2 Responses

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Form Layouts With CSS

HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2: The Future of Web Standards

Objectives in User Interface Design

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