Odds are, if term coding standards is new to you, you are wasting time on a daily basis arguing over the syntax semantics of your programming language. (e.g. tabs or spaces? 4 spaces or 2? print or echo? etc.)

Programmers are required to make hundreds to thousands of micro-decisions like this every day, and especially when there is no standard, this costs time and time is money. If you were to benchmark the programmer's brain, you could begin to see exactly just how much time is wasted asking, answering, remembering, and changing each answer.

This form of unorganization has many more side effects than one, however.

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By now most people have noticed the Achilles' Heel of tabless CSS design is currently the inability to align footers to the bottom of the window. (eg. always at the very bottom until content actually overflows)

Currently you can only achieve this effect in all browsers with *gasp* tables—but it's different now in XHTML 1.0 Strict than it was in HTML 4.01 Traditional.

Since Blogger doesn't want to provide the feature for some reason, here is a simple JavaScript that will achieve the pagination effect you've been looking for on your blogspot.com blog.

What better way to proove that you understand SEO to the world than to write a book about it and make sure it is the #1 rank on Google, Yahoo, and all major search engines? I love this guy's approach.

On his blog he promises "a new chapter every day" as he himself is a consultant and always learning new and better ways to optimize content for search engines on the web.

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. If you like this, you may be interested in their browser compatibility service, SiteVista. Yes, that's why this software is free!

I have personally fallen in love with this application. I can't imagine how I ever wrote CSS without it. Dreamweaver is no match, and neither is the Firefox inline CSS editor that comes with the Web Developer plugin. This has saved me literally hours of work and I highly recommend it if you are a cool web developer like me.

You can download it here.

Also for those who don't know...

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Over 2000 people dugg Spiffy Corners.

What is it? A pure-CSS alternative to Nifty Corners by Greg Johnson.

I found it on WaSP, as Ian Lloyd was lamenting its redundancy and non-standards markup.

What's wrong with what we have? Nothing. Except like Greg, when I found Nifty Corners, I too was dismayed at yet another js include for something as trivial as rounded corner effects.

Spiffy Corners is a step closer toward optimizing the process, but...

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Introducing Backbase, a 3-year-old company that develops and sells great AJAX applications. Like 37Signals, they too have released a Community Edition of their framework. read more