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The What, Why & How of web standards ASP.net development

July 2008 - Posts

Reading Zeldman aloud: an experiment

How many of you have read the now famous beanie book by Jeffrey Zeldman.

I did, some time ago. And I very much liked it. But, being from the ASP.net world, I felt some sort of chemistry was lacking. Web standards gurus are all great guys, but for one reason or the other, only a few of them are Microsoft-oriented. So I thought: what the heck, let's try and re-read the book aloud, trying to bridge concepts and examples to the ASP.net/Microsoft world.

The result? I got no idea, but hopefully something like the sadly unknown "Design Patterns Smalltalk companion", a priceless guide to the mother of all design patterns book: the GOF. Anyone here wants to help out?

Valid markup and semantic code: SEO building blocks
If it happened to CodeProject, it can happen to you. Just as the findability guys say, SEO tricks are cool, but might be pointless if your markup neither valid nor semantic. We at Aggiorno have just made this short video to try and illustrate this idea. What do you think about it? Are we overemphasizing the importance of validation? What has been your experience?
ASP.net and web standards
Hi everyone out there! My name is Alan Cyment and I work in the Aggiorno team. I'd like to make this blog a place where ASP.net developers can find interesting information about web standards: why they are important, how to make your web site compliant and who's working hard to help you get there. Hope to see you around!
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