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2005 Year In Review - The Best Of Joy Gems

By Bud Kraus
bud@joyofcode.com
Joy Of Code
Creator And Instructor

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Originally Published: January 5, 2007

Even though we're already a few days into 2006, I couldn't quite say goodbye to 2005, a very busy year in which I started The Joy Gems Newsletter. Here are a few of my favorite articles I wrote in the past year.

A Method Of Building A Small Web Site

In two issues, I took you through the pre-production process of developing a small to mid-sized web site. From charting, to wire framing and templating, I showed you the steps to take before you get to the final stage - build.

Part 1and Part 2

A Well Formed Document Is A Thing Of Beauty

I showed you what is meant by creating web pages which are well formed documents. In that Joy Gems issue I looked at newspapers as an example of what "well formed" is to help you understand how a familiar concept applies to making web pages.

Speed Thrills: A Way To Optimize Your Pages So They'll Download Faster

In this issue, I led you to the King Of Optimization, Andy King. He's built a great online tool that tests your page for how fast - or slow - it downloads, something that is still important to more users than not. As Andy would agree, a joy of code lies in the old adage that less is more.

So, You Want To Know About HTML Goodies, Huh?

Based on the number of visitors to this page last year, this article was very popular. I thought people would consider the HTML Goodies site a bit dated, but I was wrong.