Design Techniques

For the last two years I've been putting a lot of energy into learning and using web standard technologies (W3C)and, because I'm soft on Open Source and sharing ideas, I've put up some of the results as tutorials.

The focus is mostly on the use of XML, XSLT and CSS and it is mostly from the perspective of a Designer in that I'm looking at presenting content. I have found that the use of web standards has reduced the labour involved in creating sites and applications for the Internet and has opened up a number of opportunities that the more traditional approach did not.

The following areas include tutorials on particular techniques and articles that either got me started or discuss particular issues.

The current areas are:

About this Site

This site uses XML for all the content, XSLs to translate that content into XHTML which is laid out using CSS. The use of XML has allowed me to provide multiple interfaces to one set of content. This article provides an overview of how this works.

If you find anything helpful or find any problems feel free to drop me a line about it..

 
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