Getting website details right

Don’t convert to uppercase in the HTML, do it in CSS, so that copies are in titlecase.

Don’t use roman numerals for numbering, but follow a more hierarchical approach, using the counter-reset attribute:

ol {
	counter-reset: list;
	list-style-type: none;
}
ol li {
	counter-increment: list;
}
ol li:before {
	content: counters(list, '.') '. ';
}

Avoid underlining links, as this style has been phased out by most major websites. It’s still ok to underline them on hover.

Keep line length to 45-90 characters.

Avoid typewriter habits.

Don’t use “click here” as link text.

Use font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; for numbers that need to line up vertically, like lists of dates.

Some of the typographic ideas from Elliott Cable’s Markright article might be useful to pick up, but he does have some odd predilections.

Have a link to the RSS feed visible.

Make sure Conditional GET works for the RSS feed.

Include soft-hyphens (preferably as Unicode character U+00AD so it’s present in the text format of pages) in prose to allow for full-justification.

Add non-breaking spaces between words that should go together (using ⌥Space), like 100 km.

Add rel="author" to a link pointing to the site’s author and wrap these sections in the <address> tag.

Add Website icons.

Use rel="author" for Author detection in Instapaper.