Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category

My New Other Blog: CrunchSite.com

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

My other blog, Crunchsite.com has been online for more than a month already.  I custom designed this blog, still in Wordpress.

The blog’s content is practically about making money online. I might also include traditional businesses.

My Other Blog: Manilablog.com

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

ManilablogManilablog.com has been up for two months already. It’s on this site that i put my gimmicks, photos, leisure life, my opinions regarding Manila whether good or bad. Everything about Metro Manila, according to me!

While Gwapito.com is for my opinions ranging from the very personal opinions positive and negative alike, political views, racism, my experiences with God, my dreams, even my web and graphic portfolios. But will add more on the latter in a month or two.

My Favorite Top Websites That Failed The Web Standards

Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Web Standards

By using W3 Consortium’s HTML Validator one can check whether a site is standards compliant or not.

According to their site: W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines.

Basically the benefits of web standards are:
- Accessible to all devices (laptops, PCs, PDAs etc)
- Cross-browser compatibilty. No need to do another design specifically for a certain browser. Still a site is accessible even if browsers have updated versions.
- Easy to edit, remake compared to Flash and Table based websites.
- That means it saves time and money.
- Bandwidth friendly, another money saving factor.

1. Yahoo – 34 errors. Currently, the web’s star of all season in terms of site visit. So caught up with its popularity that it forgot to catch the errors running around at the back of its site.
2. Google – 47 errors. The leader in web search. Also a leader in errors.
3. Yugatech – 301 errors. A personal site of Abe Olandres. One of my personal favorite blogsites. (more…)

Web Designing with Web Standards

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Currently, I’m reading a book about web designing, mainly urging not just the designers and developers, but the site owners to pay attention to web standards. The book is Designing with Web Standards, it’s already in its second edition authored by Jeffrey Zeldman, one the first web designers and an advocate of web standards. For Zeldman, a table based website is “yucky,” a “waste of time and money” and etc.

Though, I still have to read 300 pages more before I could call it done. But what spurred my interest to read is the “highlights” found in page 41, I will quote a few: (more…)