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December 2007
- Still More 24 Ways
- For the third year in a row, Drew McLellan is serving up another 24 helpings of web design/development goodness. I’ve mentioned the other two years previously, but the annual 24 Ways site is always great. So far, the day one Transparent PNG article, the trick... full entry
December 2006
- Better HTML Forms
- Unfortunately, I can’t actually recall where I came across this since I’ve had it open and waiting to blog about for several days now. However, a post over on the Nidahas blog covers some very nice ways to make simple, accessible forms. All the CSS... full entry
- Another 24 Ways
- Last year (in fact, one year ago today; which, I guess, means I was way late last year, too) I posted about a site doing a sort of “advent calendar” for web development topics. Well, the site is back again this year and so you... full entry
November 2006
- Web Dev Cheat Sheets
- Paul linked to a post containing a ton of great cheat sheets over on his reedmaniac.com blog. The cheat sheets cover everything from ASP and Ajax to HTML and MySQL. If you do any sort of web development, you’re pretty much guaranteed to find something... full entry
February 2006
- MapSurface ‘Demo’
- Over on his Blogography, Andy Budd has posted some information for a new stats package he’s been testing on his site called MapSurface. Apparently evolved from a link tracker system, MapSurface looks pretty interesting and Andy explains in his post how you can see it... full entry
- Target.com sued by blind student
- As this arstechnica article describes, a blind university student is suing Target for not being accessible to the blind. This goes right along with my entry Saturday on accessibility in design. Here’s one major reason: take a look at the validation results, or look at... full entry
- DO-IT
- There’s an excellent series put out by DO-IT at the University of Washington designed to help people understand making technology accessible for people with disabilities. One show was just on channel 9404 of Dish Network, “World Wide Access: Accessible Web Design”. It’s an excellent program,... full entry
December 2005
- Redefining Feed Icons
- There’s a bit of a movement about these days to make RSS/Atom/Whatever data feeds more accessible to people. In the past, the closest thing we had to a standard were those really ugly orange “XML” graphics. Lots of people used them because they were a... full entry
- WebDev: 24 Ways
- This is a simple site with a simple concept: each day of December, another web development-related hint/tip/trick gets posted. Thus, you end up with 24 Ways “to impress your friends”. Not all the articles are super-useful to me, but there are certainly some interesting ones... full entry
February 2005
- Unobtrusive Javascript
- Web-graphics.com points us to this article on Unobtrusive Javascript. It explains some “best practice” techniques to follow if you use javascript in your pages. As the site explains: On the following pages we will discuss and see how we can use Javascript, but still maintain... full entry
January 2005
- Safari and PNG Colors
- Over the last week or so, I’ve been working on the redesign for this site. One small part of the redesign includes some NG: images to which I’ve given a specific solid background color. These images are then placed inside some code on a page... full entry
December 2004
- I Need a New Design…
- For this website, that is. This current design is “okay” and it’s served its purpose, but I really feel it’s time for something new. This, of course, should coincide with porting the site over to run on :ExpressionEngine:. So, that’s good and all, but there’s... full entry
- Stock Photography for the Web
- Mezzoblue has a short post up discussing stock photos and how there’s really a difference between how they’re used for print media and for the web. It’s interesting enough in its own right, but mostly, I just want to use this as a sort of... full entry
November 2004
- Text/coding Editors on OS X
- Jon Hicks (of hicksdesign) put up a “survey” asking people what program they use for editing on OS X. A number of PC users also replied and a few mentioned my personal favorite on the PC: UltraEdit. I have a mac (Powerbook) in addition to... full entry
October 2004
- The Two “Paths” of Web Development
- Nate from web-graphics.com has a nice post up that discusses the two paths that exist for web development today. Basically, it discusses the whole “tables vs. :CSS:” debate that exists in regards to how to construct a page. He includes some nice linked resources that... full entry
September 2004
- Designing for Handhelds
- There’s a nice article in the new :ALA: issue that deals with designing your site for small screen devices. Basically, they’re talking about cellphone and DA: browsers. Those types of devices sometimes have screens as narrow as 120px, and thus you have to be very... full entry
August 2004
- Want to Learn CSS?
- For those of you out there who may not be masters of :CSS: (hey, who am I kidding? I’m not either!), Westciv is currently offering a free CSS Level 1 course. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone who wants to get started on learning... full entry
July 2004
- Foreign Languages and HTML
- Mezzoblue put up a nice summary article (almost exactly a year ago, as chance would have it) talking about using foreign languages in :HTML: documents. Character sets, character encodings, etc. aren’t easy things to work with, so this is a useful article for those people... full entry
- Identical Websites?
- François Briatte created a survey of ten sites from well-known web designers. He posed twenty-five questions related to the site design and then graded each of the sites. The results were interesting, if rather predictable: the majority of the sites all exercised similar design approaches... full entry
June 2004
- Icons Galore!
- Dan Cederholm (of SimpleBits) has created a set of stock icons he’s dubbing Stockholm (stock + Cederholm). Very, very pretty. If I ever get around to redesigning this site I may well have to get a copy from him. In the comments, someone posted a... full entry
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