This week Ive been trying out a lot of image replacement techniques in main headings, and their are quite a few available. If you have a graphical header logo on a website, with the sites name, often you wont want to have another heading as plain text. Yet, you should want to have the heading readable by screen-readers, and you also want the SEO benefits of the heading.
Ive rounded up my favorite methods, and this entry will show you how to use them, and when to use them.
Website coders often find themselves working on a variety of web sites, and when starting out, and learning new methods and techniques everyday, the mark-up used can often be messy, random, and inconsistent.
When working with someone else on a project the problem can be even larger, especially when you both have unique ways of doing things, which can cause confusion, drastically increasing project development time.
But how can this be avoided? This article focuses on setting you own standards, creating re-usable snippets of code and web documents, and the benefits of doing so.
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Many people make the mistake of using tags for appearance only in their websites, but with semantics you get the benefit of describing your data as well. This makes it more accessible and of a higher quality, and of course fulfills the main objective; separating content from presentation.
This article is aimed at semantic mark-up beginners, including clients who want to learn more about code so they can ensure their sites are semantically correct. It also shows the mark-up available and it's usage.
Access Keys have been around since HTML 4.0, and have many accessibility benefits, they are also part of the WCAG accessibility guidelines. However despite this they are uncommon, and fairly unknown; few
webmasters choose to incorporate them in their websites.
This article attempts to describe what access keys are, their benefits and implications, and practical uses of them in your web sites. Using access keys is easier than you may of thought!
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Accessibility is often neglected on the www. Without considering this you can neglect the needs of some users, and even break the law. This article explains why accessibility is important, and what you can do to meet the accessibility guidelines set by the W3C.
I recently discovered wordpress automatic updates for plugins delete the plugin's directory. This has severe implications for the plugin because downloads will be lost. To solve this I have had to move the folder outside of the wp_download_monitor directory. Therefore if you use automatic updates please back up your downloads, or move them into wp_content/uploads before updating the plugin.
I will update the plugin tomorrow, this should give some notice and let you backup your files.
