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A semantically correct navbar, without the heartache provides the background and a link to a new tutorial from Westciv. The title says it all. If you’ve ever wanted to add standards-compliant navigation to a web site, this is the tutorial for you.

The only thing that would make this better is a web service that allows you to build your navigation and copy-paste it to your content management system. But, that would be too easy!

Todd Dominey reviews Dan Cederholm’s Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook. Here’s an excerpt from the review:

Web Standards Solutions is the perfect book for those who are interested in developing standards-compliant web sites, have written a little CSS, have a pretty decent handle on the differences between HTML and XHTML, but have difficulty explaining why one style of markup is semantically, and technically, superior to another…

Web Standards Solutions shines brightest when covering the most mundane—rudimentary, raw markup elements like headers, paragraphs, lists, and so-on. They’re the every-day alphabet soup of HTML, and are abused, misused, or underpowered by countless web designers the world over. They’re not the sexiest topics (which is why there are countless ’Cookbook’ books out there), but they’re the very bedrock of web design, and with Cederholm’s guidance any web designer can tap into their inherent power.

There is a top ten list when it comes to web designers. Paul Scrivens is chief curator, statistician, judge and jury. He’s also on the list! These are the places to go to learn.

D. Keith Robinson gives those of us who aspire to web design skills some tips on how to learn CSS. This is a valuable set of tips and advice.

Chapter Five of Designing the Band came on line last week. If you haven’t been keeping up and you are interested in the design process, this is a great series by D. Keith Robinson.