I hope you will have read my previous article on CSS Best Practices. This is another topic on the same subject, just to increase your knowledge of the CSS golden rules, tips & tricks. The inspiration for this article is from my day to day experience with the same.
Drupal is a content management framework written in PHP that can be used to organize & display content, customize appearance and manage routine tasks on a website.
It is an open-source software distributed under the GPL (”GNU General Public License”) and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.
Drupal was originally written by Dries Buytaert, who still heads the Drupal project. Buytaert transliterated the Dutch word ‘druppel,’ which means ‘droplet’ to create the name ‘Drupal,’ in order to make an indirect reference to the community aspects of the project through the Dutch word ‘dorp,’ meaning ‘village.’ He opened the source code for community work in 2001.
CSS Sprites is a technique by which we can combine multiple images in a single big image and position the various parts of this big image with our elements using pure CSS attributes. The primary objective behind using CSS Sprites is to decrease the number of HTTP requests and thus decreasing the request stress on server. The idea behind CSS Sprites is to consolidate multiple images into one sprite and then selectively display portions of this sprite with positioning. It starts by creating a larger CSS Sprite by grouping more than one images (usually icons) together and aligning them in proper grid style to aid the positioning. Then it is aligning used a proper positioning values on the webpages to show their respective images. This way it decreases the number of HTTP requests and thus increases the overall speed of webpages.
HTML 5 is planned to be the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. In this version, new features are introduced to help web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. It is an incremental step forward rather than a bold step as compared with XHTML 2.0 that is coming and which is intended to create an architecture that will become the host language to many other W3C technologies. The ideas behind HTML 5 were pioneered in 2004 by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). HTML 5 was adopted as the starting point of the work of the new HTML working group of the W3C in 2007. The HTML working group has published the First Public Working Draft of the specification on 22nd January 2008. HTML 5 should be flexible to handle incorrect syntax in contract to XHTML where the browser must refuse to render the page at all even if there is just one illegal character or missing close tag. HTML 5 is designed such that the old HTML 4 browsers will escape the new HTML 5 tags or constructs.
CSS Best Practices is the topic that I had been planning to write on for months. As CSS is the order of the day as far as web related UI is concerned, more people are moving to it. CSS isn’t always easy to deal with. CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you’re not sure which selectors are applied to document elements. CSS Best Practices covers some important and easy to remember tricks and tips to better manage, organise and develop your CSS Snippets.
