Plain Old Semantic HTML

Member of the GAWDs and Web Standards Group. As a member of the Web Standards Group, as well as membership in the Guild of Accessible Web Designers, I strive to achieve maximum website accessibility in my designs, while using the latest, cutting-edge eXtensible HyperText Mark-up Language/CSS markup. My sites fully validate with the W3C standards for XHTML/CSS, as well as comply with the W3C's WAI - A, AA, or AAA standards. Separation of Content from presentation and a site that fully complies with this philosophy - will reach more than just your intended audience, it'll reach everyone! Web standards at FierceStreet Networks is all about usability - XHTML for content, and CSS for presentation.

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I’ve read some disparaging remarks that some marketers (pretty much all of them…) have said in regards to semantics. Specifically statements to the effect that, “I tried using valid web standards markup, but they didn’t pay off in SERPs, so I stopped using them.”
Too bad for the world. These marketers will continue [...]

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For many designers, learning how to hand code (X)HTML is too much effort, especially when you can use Photoshop/Dreamweaver to do it for you.
And since learning how to hand code will for the most part enable a designer to learn semantically correct markup, it does require one to spend time doing it. [...]

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Do you remember when you first checked out the source code for a web site in the 1990’s? My experience was with the Netscape browser, and the Netscape proprietary blink tag. Let me tell you that from that time on, I would print out the HTML markup and study it. Even then, [...]

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If you are a web designer like me, you find that you spend allot of your time researching web sites that are niched in web design. I actually seek out sites that not only are service oriented companies, but ones that also have a web design blog for the latest in design information and news [...]

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I have been under the gun on several occasions that required me to outsource certain aspects of a clients web design project. Now, I am assuming that you, my readers, are geeks that have at one time or another designed semantically correct websites. But have you ever been so pressed for time that you needed [...]

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One of the greatest advantages of marketing is the fact that allot of your projects can be outsourced. From SEO (Search Engine Optimization) work, to article distribution, outsourcing these types of projects is beneficial to your and your clients. But you can’t simply write an article, and expect it to be stellar material.

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Let me first say that I design (xHTML/CSS/PHP), maintain, and SEO web sites. And I’ve done my share of them. But there are times when I run across great looking sites that have been designed by others. Ok, who am I kidding, there are TONS of sites I run across that I didn’t design. I [...]

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I have been searching for an all around good web site resource for web programming and web technology issues. And since the Internet is filled with sites on based on those niches, the “perfect one” had to contain something more. And the Stylish Weblog covers Windows issues as well as the programming and technology ones [...]

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There was a discussion going on in one of the email group I belong to, regarding automated checking of websites for accessibility issues. One crowd was saying it was a good thing, while the other said it did not do enough.
I say, do it! It’s not the end-all to checking for accessibility, but it’s a [...]

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I understand that POSH (Plain Old Semantic HTML) is “geeky” and all, but it works!
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