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    Balancing Act: Features, Budgets & Timelines (Issue No. 24)

    by Adrian Roselli

    Adrian offers insight into the decision process of building a new site for the Buffalo Soccer Club, a not-for-profit with little to no budget and a looming deadline.

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    Responsive Retrofitting (Issue No. 23)

    by Ben Callahan

    Older, legacy sites may limit your ability to modify CSS, but you can still use responsive web design techniques for a better user experience. Ben introduces you to responsive retrofitting.

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  1. (Issue # 2} What do you love or hate about creating forms in HTML?

    Thoughts posted: 6

    Nishant Kothary said:

    Great article, Aaron. Not only because it dissects a very relevant real-life example, but particularly because of the focus — form markup practices. We haven’t spent enough time as a community discussing best practices for marking up forms (…

  2. (Issue # 6} How do you use fieldset and legend?

    Thoughts posted: 11

    davidrapson said:

    It’s probably a matter of preference but why do you prefer an ol for forms? I’ve always found that style redundant. The label + input combo makes sense on its own most of the time for me.

    I’d love to hear the thinking behind it,…

  3. (Issue # 18} Do you favor id selectors over classes? How do you evaluate which selectors are best for a given project?

    Thoughts posted: 11

    Aaron Gustafson said:

    To me it really depends on the situation. For general application of style, I prefer classes, but there are specific instances where an element is unique to the page. In that case I still use id selectors, especially if I need to support IE6. If…

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