Matt is a pastor, businessman, theology student, & massive geek.

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  • Listamatic

    Ahh… the power of the list, the ultimate semantic markup for navigation bars (and other things) Listamatic

  • Layout-o-matic

    In a hurry? Need a valid, standards compliant, table-free layout? This site is for you. Layout-o-matic

  • Iowa State University Dept of Horticulture

    *update* Apprently they have redesigned this site for whatever reason. Which is really good, because their old site was simply a ripoff of (tribute to?) WSU. It’s hard to be creative when someone tells you to rip a site’s design off. I have been working on this project since last fall through ISU Extension IT.…

  • If you must use tables…

    Use them properly. Isolani does a great job with a succinct, easy to understand Guide to creating accessible, structured tables for your tabular data (the only thing for which you should be using tables).

  • Forms

    Forms are usually pretty messy to deal with in a pure CSS layout. They look very nice in tables, but are rather hard and hackey to deal with without tables. The Man In Blue , along with Eric Meyer came up with some very pretty ways of dealing with Accessible, Semantic, Table-less form layouts

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