The Weekly Standards has returned, with a feature article on the transformation of AT&T’s website from markup mess to standards compliance. Since that’s the site I work on, I feel pretty good about it all. This project is definitely a high point for me: after nearly 10 years of working on the site, it feels [...]

Rikkert Koppes has some thoughts about class naming in HTML that’s a good read.

While working on www.att.com, Joe D’Andrea and I would spend a lot of time on naming, since Joe’s thought (and it was a good one) was that naming would crystallize the purpose of the construct, basically. So, instead of “columnleft” and “columnright” [...]

One thing that’s really annoys me while browsing is a site that assumes you use the color “white” as your default browser background. I use gray. So all those great images that have been antialiased for a white background look like crap. Also, since I’m not using the expected background color, the text color can [...]