“There is just no sense in banging on about arbitrary guidelines when people have their own problems to tackle. Understanding their problems and helping them with real world guidance will make it better in the end for all of us.”

Chris wrote that in his post about accessibility. More of the clients don’t care about accessibility, more because it will cost them a lot more than expected. As far as they can see the Web site in the right way they are happy.

But does it cost (much) more? I don’t think so, because it is on the developer if he can implement the right things to make a Web site more accessible.

Joost compares on Marketing Pelgrip a pub with a Web site. With that in mind, (SEO) marketing can be found in free beer. Funny and handy article.

Where can a Web site also compared to?

Building a template I found a problem in the rendering of the CODE element in Internet Explorer. Sometimes in IE (all versions including IE7) the font size of it was not the correct one, but an unreadable smaller size.

The way to solve this problem is to add a simple CSS-declaration into you style sheet where you specify the CODE element:

Not very hard, isn’t it?

In an article from Tim Berners-Lee published yesterday, he described some new developments in HTML. There will be a new Working Group on HTML, which will inspect the needs of developers and designers. Via Anne and Slashdot

For a client I am building a web shop. OS Commerce is free PHP web shop software, so I decided to use it because there was not that much budget to buy a very complicated software bundle.

While working on it, I mentioned there was no breathing space in the lay-out. Every simple tag was nested in ‘a’ PHP file. That’s what I think the reason why all OS Commerce powered web shops have the same kind of lay-out with different colors.

I decided to strip all tags from the core code, I hope it will be not that hard… Together with my all time favor Smarty I want to make a highly editable lay-out engine for OS Commerce.

Hope this will not cost that much hours…