Now - Techniques used on LooseIdeas.co.uk
The following is a brief list of the techniques being used here on Looseideas. Most are more applicable to larger websites than this but if didn't do them then you'd think I didn't know about them right?
In use here
- HTML is symantic and every page is given structure using headings; Often they look terrible, but that's stylistic!
- HTML is valid XHTML Strict. The CSS actually isn't valid but I wanted easy rounded corners, so there…
- Skip links are available, and visible, at the very top of the page
- IE styles are included using conditional comments
- jQuery library is hosted by Google
- JavaScript is included at the bottom of the page to allow all other resources to download first
- JavaScript is compressed using the YUI compressor
Not in use here!
- PNG files in IE6: I've not coverted them, often I'd convert them with the superb pngquant
- CSS that validates: I believe you can justify any rules that do not validate then you shouldn't be a slave to a validator. It marks Opacity as invalid for example
- Consistency: It's only my personal website, it really needs a great deal more love than I'm currently giving it
- JSlint: I tend to validate with it, but I can't remember if I checked my latest changes
The overly pink version.
Could have been worse, could have gone grey and scary eyed.