Academic Affairs Web Alliance

Attendees

Joe Butts, Jahcqui Guardiola, Nick Hage, Jason Lehman

Topics

CSS Basics

• The main meeting topic was an introduction to the basics of CSS. By referencing the CSS Cheat Sheet we covered syntax, selectors, inhertitance, cascading properties, and more.

Web Developer Tools

Below are a few indispensable tools for web developers; most are plug-ins for FireFox - where all web development should be vetted against first - then test in other browsers such as IE, Opera, etc.

• FireBug
• Web Developer
• LiveHTTPHeaders
• W3C CSS Validator
• W3C Markup Validation Service (HTML, XHTML, etc)

Cheat Sheets

• YUI Cheat Sheets
• CSS Cheat Sheet
• PHP Cheat Sheet
• MySQL Cheat Sheet
• XML and XSLT Cheat Sheets
• Many more web development cheat sheets

CSS Reset

CSS Reset methods allow a developer to "remove and neutralize the inconsistent default styling of HTML elements, creating a level playing field across" all browsers (taken from the intro at YUI Reset CSS). Two reliable options exist:

1. YUI Reset CSS
2. Eric Meyer’s Reset CSS