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16 Nov 2008

Emphasising with HTML

Update: I had given a wrong example of the cite element. It is corrected now.

There are several ways to quote/emphasise using HTML, you can use the <q>, <blockquote>, <cite>, <em>, <strong>, <pre>, <code> and there are subscripts <sub> and superscripts <sup>.

I read Web Design Marketing Solutions for Business Websites last week and here is my review of the book.

The book is a summary of list of techniques and details that goes into creating a full-fledged business website for an enterprise. It is a book that is a useful reference to check if you have covered your bases with respect to all aspects of your website and as a starting point to doing more with your website. It is not the holy bible of business websites though.

I came across this great list of usability rules in a presentation by Denise Stephen called "Enabled by Design meets Scripting Enabled" which was given as part of the Scripting Enabled event organized by Christian Heilmann. Here goes the list:

I came across the blog of Ben Buchanan who has blogged about Opera frequently. Here are two great links from his blog:

Mike Davidson has written about his design signature which has inspired me to write about the elements of my web design signature. As he had mentioned, it seems following my signature leads to no or negligible use for IE specific style sheets.

Update: There is another informative article on getting cross-browser compatibility every time.

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