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Aug06Importance of producing semantically valid Markup…

Producing markup is common practice for any who develop initially for the web. Most could probably quite happily say that it is a straight forward process so long as it all looks good on screen. But is it? Fully understanding the reasoning for implementing HTML and using the right tag for its Job (cue the term semantic markup) is highly crucial and beneficial but appears to still be a common misunderstanding around the web. Planning ahead is actually a much harder process than one might expect and requires an initial degree of thought before delving straight in. However, putting effort in in the early stages not only saves on development time and future costs but overtime with practice, just makes plain common sense.

Jul26Inbox Zero

We live every minute by email – auto checking in Entourage (Outlook) and Blackberry’s in hand for those moments when a laptop is too far away (in a rucsac!). Here’s a great (and new) video from Google / Merlin Mann (43 Folders fame) about keeping the inbox clean and managing email.