All (sane) web developers are eagerly awaiting the day Internet Explorer 6 dies. While there are a number of opinions in the community on when we should drop support and how we should encourage users to upgrade, the (sad) fact is that (as of this writing) roughly 25% of the world is still using it. That being said, I am still going to be at a minimum, creating sites that degrade gracefully and function fully for IE6 for some time to come. OK now what were we talking about? (more…)

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I’ve never been a big fan of building web forms, and I don’t know many people who are. However, the fact of the matter is that almost every website has a few forms, and these forms play a key roll in the user experience.  Larger websites have huge, complex forms, that we as web developers spend a lot of time building, and thousands of users spend even more time filling out. That being said I think it’s important to become well versed in the ins and outs of building a proper form. (more…)

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