Form Follows Function 2: Semantic Markup in XHTML

This article will get you coding with some basic Standards-Compliant XHTML/CSS web-design by doing the following:

• Make some basic layout decisions: How will this new web-page look and work, or at least how I envision it now.
• Get a basic knowledge of some common HTML elements/tags.
• Put together some Clean, Semantic HTML markup for a web-document.

Form Follows Function 1: What's a web-site?

First and foremost, I’d like to dedicate this tutorial to the primary Idiot who instigated this pile of drivel: Me. Putting together Skinyourscreen.com, redesigning it, perpetually retooling it, and fixing it after A-holes like ErrorHack and their band of miscreant, religiously-branded band of anarchists repeatedly attempt to take it down (moving along…) has taught me a great deal about Standards-Compliant Web Design. But these aren’t my official credentials. NO! You see, I’m an idiot. That’s right. I’m no expert, just some semi-average schmoe who enjoyed skinning and wanted to put stuff up on the web. Now, of course, working on this crap brought me to some other things I’ve become smitten with, such as Ruby On Rails, PERL, and MySQL. But HEY! Maybe something I’ve found on this ongoing journey will help some other schmoe out there.

Hence, mrbiotech’s Web-Design for Complete Idiots Like Me tutorial series.

This part of the tutorial won’t require any coding, but will simply cover the larger concepts of what is a web-page and why its VERY important to adhere to modern Standards-Compliant design principles.

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Change of Servers, Change of Function

Although not seen on the front of the site, much has been happening behind the scenes at Skinyourscreen.com. After recovering from the site hacks by Turkish script kiddies I promised that the site you are looking at would be merely a temporary solution. Our role has evolved since the birth of the site, from a skinning instruction, to a community to get ideas and help from, to an AstonShell theme-park. Homies – SYS is about to evolve again:

Simple Repeating Patterns

.: by mrbiotech :.

Use simple repeating patterns to infuse extra life and character to your graphics. This 3-part tutorial will describe the creation of basic and intermediate repeating patterns in Photoshop, as well as techniques to apply them to your own graphics.