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Pagination 101

22 June 2007

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

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Web Standards and the Educations

06 March2006

In a very crude way, you could say that there are three types of people on the Web: there are those who just use it in their daily life without it having any particular meaning to them; there are those who love the Web and have learned all about one or more of its infinitely many aspects. The third group consists of people who have completed an education of one kind or another which helps them have a profession on the Web. These people can be designers, online marketeers, back-end programmers, you name it. They can be anything that involves the Web in some way, but as far as profession is concerned, this third group overlaps entirely with the second. Nevertheless, there are vital differences between the two, differences that play out against our educated group. Why is this?

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Learning CSS: the introduction

15 December2005

In life, there are generally two options you have when you want to learn something: either you learn by reading all the available material, or you learn in a practical, trial-by-error manner through simply doing it. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but when it comes to learning CSS, the method that I consider works best is the latter approach, also known as the Nike way: just do it. My Learning CSS project is to help you do exactly that.

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Rembrandt 400 Leiden

15 December2005

July, 2005 Client: City of Leiden*

The year 2006 is marked by the 400th birthday of Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch painter who was born in Leiden, The Netherlands. I've had the honor and the privilege of working on the official website while at Media Design, an opportunity that allowed me to use web standards on a large, multi-lingual website.

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FACE: Faruk's Animated CSS Enhancements

15 December2005

For the longest time, the Web has existed as a static medium, where only animated GIFs and, later on, Flash added some life to pages. With the advent of web standards and DOM scripting, people have started to look more and more at Javascript to add interactivity to websites.

With FACE, a new technology by Tim Hofman and myself, this process has been made so simple that anyone can make their websites come to life, without having to know a whiff of Javascript.

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Robert Nyman

Roger Johansson

Robert and Roger are two skillful friends who fight for Web Standards from Sweden. Whilst I haven't yet had the fortune to meet Robert, I am confident that he's every bit as nice a guy as Roger is. Both of them definitely know the trade, however, and are therefore very much a recommendation.

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