Coding Guidelines

write clean, valid, semantic xHTML code

• separate content (HTML) from presentation (CSS) from behaviour (Javascript)
• content must survive CSS off, javascript off, images off
• convert all special characters to proper HTML character or numeric entities

use CSS for page presentation

• only use tables for tabular data
• use image replacement techniques
• CSS rollovers > javascript rollovers

use Flash as a last resort

• only use Flash for specific elements when there isn’t a HTML/CSS/Javascript alternative
• use Swfobjects to embed flash

validate, validate, validate

• all xHTML content must validate
• all CSS must validate