Archive for the 'Programming' Category

Using <label>s

Posted by Tom on September 28th, 2005

In a past article, I mentioned that the lack of <label> tags bothered me, and managers don’t always know what to look for when evaluating delivered code.
<label> tags are, unfortunately, one of least understood tags among amateur and self-taught web developers. I suspect it is because there are no obvious visual indicators when used. Differences [...]

What Managers Should Know About Web Developers

Posted by Tom on September 20th, 2005

It bothers me that so many web developers don’t understand basic accessibility concepts. HTML is a funny thing in the education world. When I studied computer science it was never discussed, but we were expected to use and understand the basics for several assignments. (The same for XML.) Most of the professional web developers I [...]

Code Lite

Posted by Tom on August 4th, 2004

By way of an article at The Web Standards Project, I came across a good piece by Douglas Bowman, which he presented at Digital Design World, called "Throwing Tables Out the Window."
In it he walks through the benefits of redesigning the presentation layer of a corporate web site (in this case, Microsoft.com), and not only [...]

Computer Science Is More Than Programming

Posted by Tom on July 15th, 2004

One of the things I learned studying computer science was that I didn’t want to program for a living. I enjoy programming; it can be intriguing, exciting, and fulfilling in its own way. But like anything else, it loses its magic if that’s all you do every day. When I first started [...]