Building Blog with Web Standards
Saturday, 7. February 2009, 15:09:44
- simple
- web standards
- semantic X/HTML
- accessible
- usable.
So, the features are:
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional or 1.0 Strict doctype
- using external Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), with no hacks if possible
- semantic in div, id, class, ul, ol, etc
- using h1-h6, title tag, and alt attributes properly
- h1 as a title blog on homepage
- h1 as a post/page title on single posts/pages
- combination of fixed and kind of flexible/elastic/fluid layout
- 2 colums with 1 sidebar
- it has a mobile/small screen version or handheld CSS-based
- it's safe with disable images
- above-the-fold concept
- consistent and clear navigation, text-based
- has about, contact, and disclaimer info
- has access keys and its info
- short permalink URLs
- web safe fonts
- balance contrast
- balance white space
- relative in font sizes (em, %)
- tested on cross browsers: Internet Explorer 6+, Opera, Safari, Firefox, Konqueror, Opera Mini, Elinks (Lynx)
- tested on multi platform or operating sytems: at least Windows, Mac, Linux
Did I miss something?









