CSS microformats

Microformats are protocols some people are working on in order to make HTML code more readable for machine. When we are browsing a website, human being can easily see which part is product information, which part is news detail, and we know where to find contact information. However this is an impossible task for a machine reader. That is why people start to build the microformats which throwing in many additional HTML tag attributes. (read more)

9/21/2009 | categories general | 0 comments

avoid CSS Classitis

​Classitis is a term used to describe the over use of class definitions in HTML. The immediately benefits of reducing classitis is less HTML & CSS code, faster loading time and much easier to restyle a site.

Avoiding Classitis will also make a site theme much more portable; can be apply to other sites easily. That was the purpose of sitekin to create cross site theme. (read more)

9/8/2009 | categories general | naming convention | 0 comments

CSS Convention

The idea situation will be a generic CSS theme independent from web site content & html. This theme can be attached to any websites and change all the looks of feels of that website. This is nearly impossible because there will be so many different styles of websites using all kinds of div and effects. However, it does possible to write good CSS, that can be attached to many websites with minimize changes to fit into the new website structure. Theme written in this way should following some conventions to make it easier for other user to understand and maintain. The purpose of this article is to start a purpose for CSS convention. (read more)

9/3/2009 | categories CSS framework | naming convention | 2 comments