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Sean Fraser from The Elementary Group Standards reveals that more than 70% of the sites participating in the most recent CSS Reboot don't validate. He provides lots of interesting details, such as the breakdown between XHTML and HTML doctypes, and whether or not the CSS validates. After installing the HTML Validator extention for Firefox, I managed to confirm that while our upcoming Detroit Diesel redesign is valid, none of our DNN sites validate, due to the extra garbage code that DNN inserts into... Read More...

We're working on a series of sites that are all based on the same DNN setup. This means that when I create a new site, I first clone the setup from an existing one, and then branch out from there. With the latest site, I thought I would get smart. The previous site had a lot of very specific skins (one for regular pages, one for syndicated pages, one for the results page, one for the details page, etc.), which I didn't think I needed. So I asked my coworker to help me reset every page to the default... Read More...

My coworkers have both posted their accomplishments for the month of Febtober, so I'll join the cool kids and try to impress the boss. I got hired at the beginning of the month, and spent my first few weeks getting settled in and finishing up work on Carrier and Bryant , both of which have now gone live. I started work on these while I was contracting, before I was hired into the programming department, but I'm still proud of the work that I did. Together with several others, I put a lot... Read More...