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Effects Of Drugs And Alcohol On Web Building
Effects Of Drugs And Alcohol On Web Building.
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Best practices for the Mobile Web | 456 Berea Street
Roger on Best practices for the Mobile Web.
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Access Matters » Today’s AJAX and DHTML Best Practices
As AJAX has risen, we have also read frequently that it’s not very accessible. We have a few choices: don’t worry about it, and let people with disabilities cope with the current state of affairs. Accept the pronouncements that it’s not accessible and go back to our pre-AJAX methods, or, learn why some AJAX techniques […]
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Surfin’ Safari – Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML
The relationships among HTML, XML and XHTML are an area of considerable confusion on the web. …This article will attempt to clear up some of that confusion. Eg. Why doesn’t <script /> work?
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God on Porn (and other things…)
I’ve had a few questions in response to my message (verbal essay?) on Pornography. Mostly along the lines of “does God actually say anything about pornography?”, or for those who know that he does, but don’t know what, “what does he say about it?”. I thought I’d share really briefly. To start with, the only […]
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Accessibility: Section 504, 508, ADA, WCAG, and You.
Many people have a little “508†link on their blogs to show that their personal journal conforms to the Rehabilitation Act of 1998, Section 508. This always makes me chuckle a little bit and wonder, “is this person a federally funded program?†This little tidbit inspired me to start writing this article. The recent news […]
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An overview of WCAG 2.0
Web accessibility is about universal access. It is the idea that any user should be able to access all content on the Web, regardless of platform, user agent, or physical disability. This is not some lofty philosophical ideal. It is just plain good business. As with usability, accessibility is not a binary thing. While accessibility […]
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Exactly WHY are Frames bad?
I was recently asked why exactly it is that one should not use a frameset for a Web site. A frames based page is something I’ve always sort of recognized as a bad thing, but have never had to verbalize or support objectively before; until now.
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The Ideal Web Development Team: Higher Ed. Edition
Andy Budd had a pretty good article describing his ideal Web development team. I have decided (mostly for my benefit) to delineate my ideal team for a higher education environment. As I spelled these out, I realized that they fit very closely with Andy’s assessment of the situation. Department Manager: Hires and fires. Develops the […]
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An Accessibility Primer
This is a helpful starting point for developing for Web accessibility. Accessibility from the Ground Up. Yes, Web accessibility is growing up. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 was released over five years ago, in May 1999. This year, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative will release Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. WCAG is the international standard […]
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Search Engine Optimization
One of my hobbies is Search Engine Optimization. I am trying to keep this page in the top 5 on a google search for “Heerema”. I am competing with Heerema Group, an international engineering firm, and Heerema Company, another large American engineering company. Isn’t ironic then, that I ignore one of the major things google […]
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Why Use CSS?
If you are a Web developer, you should know that CSS-based layouts have distinct and heavy advantages over traditional, hacky, table-based layouts. If you don’t know this, you should read this article on why you should use CSS with your Web designs by Greg Rewis from Macromedia Recently, however, a novice user asked a question, […]