This website will go through some major changes. The design is going to change and so will the structure of the site. We will do our best to keep the old links working so any bookmarks you may have made won’t break. Please check back regularly to see what we’re doing. If you like more information about how make websites the right way you will like the changes we are going to make.

One element which will stay dominant on this website is the “why” factor. It is often much easier to learn and adopt the right way to do things when you understand the reason behind it. When you understand the intended purpose of doing things a certain way, you&quo;ll be able to use it to your advantage and make your websites faster, easier to maintain and draw more visitors.

The articles posted here will push you to think and hopefully give you some “aha” moments. Many website will show you step by step tutorials but don’t explain the concept behind it and this is what we will try to include in our articles.

So far our articles have been limited to (X)HTML, CSS and WordPress. Soon we will add other topics to this site such as PHP, HTML5, Google Adwords & Analytics, marketing and more. We want to focus on all different elements needed to make a successful website and not only the technical or code side.

The reason for all these changes is because VanBerghem.com is now part of Van Berghem Communications and Clean Creative Communications.

We hope you’ll enjoy the changes and the direction this website is going to take

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops the standards that govern the internet. Unfortunately some companies do not follow and implement all standards and guidelines in their software. It probably won’t come as a surprise when I tell you that I think Microsoft is one of these companies. All versions of MS Internet Explorer up to, and including version 6 have major support issues with CSS2. The new IE7 is a major improvement but still interprets some of the CSS code in a different way than most other browsers. Microsoft has also written their own non-standardized code that can only be rendered in Internet Explorer. When creating a website with MS Frontpage, quite a few features will use this code without any notification that it isn’t supported by any other browsers than IE.

It is my opinion that Firefox is the browser that is best implemented conform the W3C standards. It will therefore be the reference browser for this website. It would be foolish to ignore IE users however I will not go through great lengths of effort to optimize it for IE6. It is not reasonable to expect webmasters to be mindful of previous versions of IE when the author, Microsoft, no longer provides any support on these products. Browsers are downloadable for free. Windows XP Automatic Update will upgrade to IE7, and Vista has IE7 preinstalled. At the time of this writing, more than half of the IE6 users have already upgraded to IE7. Naturally If most of your visitors are from countries where most users are still running Windows 98 with IE5, you must make sure it is presentable and accessible to these people. Remember, the visitor is king.