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Vitamin Features » Stand Up For Your Rights!
Eric Meyer with a few hypothetical conversations on what it takes to learn a trade… CSS? Semantics? Don’t bother me with those silly details! I just want to be a Web designer!
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Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
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New Meme? My Office
Adam had an interesting idea. I think this went around awhile back, but I never got a chance to do anything about it. Check out my home office. What does your office look like? If you read this, consider yourself “tagged” (blech…) www.flickr.com
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Jason Fried On Why YouTube Was A Good Purchase
Jason Fried of 37 Signals just posted an article on why YouTube was a good purchase for Google. > It’s not the technology, it’s the experience. It’s simple sharing. It’s easy embedding. It’s reliable viewing. It’s “when I share a YouTube video with someone I know they’re going to be able to see it no […]
Essay
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 […]
Quick Take
Google buys YouTube
Google buys YouTube for 1.65billion. Sorta sets a precedent and relative value for Facebook…
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Tech, Knowledge, and Community: Taking Passwords to the Grave
Taking Passwords to the Grave. What happens when the only person with important passwords dies?
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ThemesPress.com
ThemesPress is a service that allows you to automatically convert your HTML and CSS based design into a WordPress blog theme.
Resource List
12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards : A List Apart
If you are new to CSS and Web standards and are frustrated, it’s because standards based Web design requires a change of mindset.
Quick Take
The Button Element – Digital Web
I hereby solemnly swear to use the button element for forms from now on. I feel like such a n00b.
Case Study
ComplaintWorthy
I was approached by a local development company Big Creek Software to design a UI and marketing site for their new Web app: ComplaintWorthy. My involvement: Logo (in collaboration with Dan Shea), Graphic Design, XHTML, CSS
Case Study
Weblogs Inc: Style*Dash
This is the second site I’ve designed for Weblogs Inc. Style*Dash is a blog dedicated to the fashion world: trends, celebrities, clothing, accessories. My inolvement: Graphic Design (including logo), initial xhtml/css template.
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Judge: ADA case against target can move forward!
In the case of the National Federation of the Blind v. Target, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled that retailers can be sued if their websites are not accessible to the blind. Hooray!!