How-To
design in-flight: How to be a successful freelancer (part two)
Design In-Flight with some more helpful advice on “How to be a successful freelancer (part two)“
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Written Observations
Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
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Quick Take
Number one (if for a short while)
My dream has been realized, if but for a short while. My site is currently (and probably not for much longer) #1 in a google search for: Web Design Blog (at least from where I’m sitting). Not that it means much, and certainly not that I deserve it. But anyway. It feels good, in an […]
Recommendation
Favorite Web Designs: A bunch of light on grey.
I’m a huge fan of light-on-grey designs. There just aren’t enough sites out there that use it. I have a feeling that we will be seeing an increase of this color scheme in the corporate world over time. Here are a few designs that have blown my mind recently: Veerle’s Blog (just redesigned… looks a […]
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DOMTab
“DOMtab is a JavaScript that turns a list of links connected to content sections into a tab interface.” Looks incredibly handy.
Announcement
Pornographication
Check the poster out… I made this flyer for my next Rock message. (in the flyer… “Dangerous Curves” refers to a local “bikini bar”, essentially a strip club where they don’t take ALL their clothes off, thus circumventing many city ordinances.) Next week at The Rock I will be speaking about pornography. Specifically how pornography […]
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Typetester
Typetester – compare fonts for the screen. A handy little tool for comparing font treatments for Web sites. Actually, that’s an understatement. This is amazingly useful.
Essay
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 […]
Link Post
Target Sued for Inaccessible Web Site
The Web Standards Project: Target Sued for Inaccessible Web Site The national federation for the blind has sued Target because their Web site is inaccessible to the visually impaired. I have an article coming soon on why this is a big deal. Just thought I’d point out this landmark case. The article in the above […]
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Starting with CSS: revisited – KuraFire Network
Good article on some starting CSS classes to strip out inconsisten browser defaults. One of the steps from my previous post about writing cross-browser compatible css. Starting with CSS: revisited – KuraFire Network
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Friendly Bit on Cross-browser strategies for CSS
Emil Stenström on how to write consistent cross-browser compatible CSS. Some great pointers. A good starting place for CSS beginners. (And a nice refresher even if you know what you are doing. Via 456 Berea Street.
Recommendation
CSS Positioning and the Box Model
Brainjar has an excellent article about CSS Positioning, The Box Model, and how they interact and affect eachother. Definitely a good resource for understanding nuiances in behavior that you might not expect when starting off with CSS.
Announcement
Post-modern Technological Prophets
If I may toot my own horn for a moment (toot toot!), Godbit, a site I contribute to from (rare) time to time was recently inducted into the 9rules network*. There was even a nice write-up about Godbit on their blog by 9rules’s man, Shawn Anthony. If the Christian faith ever needed a handful of […]