Back To Basics Series

If you're an aspiring bodybuilder you may try all kinds of machines to grow faster and get bigger. But the truth is nothing beats the basics: squats, military presses, barbell rows, bench presses and deadlitfs. They are the basic of basics and, probably, it's going to stay this way. We can put up all kinds of fancy talk about web standards here, but at the end of the day I look through the HTML code of many sites out there and have an impression those folks are really lost. For example, I'd see someone use 6 lines of CSS in an external style sheet and then spill archaic font and valign tags all over the code. There's nothing to be ashamed about. I see it as an apportunity to learn how to do it differently.

This is why I wanted to run a "series" of posts titled Back to Basics. We'll start with XHTML, what it is and where it came from, how to apply it to ASP.NET WebForms. We'll study some basic tenets of CSS and talk about some challenges of styling ASP.NET server controls, etc. Tag along, I hope it'll be fun. You don't have to be an ASP.NET developer to join the show.