Book Review
Bulletproof Web Design
Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cedarholm Cedarholm’s book Web Standards Solutions has become a primer text of sorts in our office for anyone who does Web design. This one is just as excellent.
The Journal
Written Observations
Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
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Commentary
DontClick.It A new approach to user interface
DontClick.It is exploring a new method of user interface, clickless mousing. Basically it looks like they are treating “hovering” over an area as an insinuated click on a link. The area you mouse-over automatically opens, selects, “clicks” through to the next level. I don’t have any research to back this, so what I am offering […]
Tutorial
CSS Image Maps a la Flickr
One of my favorite features of Flickr is the “notes” you can attach to photos to comment on various parts of it Flickr Style Image Maps with CSS Now I need to find a bit of Ajax to allow universal addition/editing of these comments…
Recommendation
Browsershots.org
Browsershots.org. “an open-source system for distributed automatic production of browser screenshots.” I’ve been using Browsercam.com to get automatic screenshots of my Web sites in nearly all the different browsers. This appears to be a free approximation of that service. It does not offer as many platform/browser combinations as Browsercam however, so, while it is cheap-as-free, […]
Link Post
Designing for ads
Asterisk has a helpful article with some thoughts to keep in mind when designing a site that will incorporate advertisements. Fortunately, I very very rarely have to deal with this. I primarily design for higher education Web sites, in which (IMHO) advertising is completely inappropriate. If I’m not doing that, I’m usually doing smaller scale […]
Link Post
Buzzle.com on Search Engine Optimization
There are some pretty good SEO suggestions in a recent article on SEO by Buzzle.com Essentially it’s the same old tips: Update content regularly Relevant inbound links Click through rates etc.. With some interesting new tips (recent developments/stuff I haven’t heard before. Notably: How many years you have registered your domain name for Spam tactics […]
Reflection
Web Design Axioms
Over the last 5.5 years as a Web developer, I have picked up several “axioms” that have made my job easier. Today I was reminded of two of them while helping a friend work through some layout issues. Josh Cramer’s First Rule Of Web Design: “It only does what you tell it to do.” Josh […]
Quick Take
Clever Virus…
Got this in my inbox today: Turn on your TV. Osama Bin Laden has been captured. While CNN has no pictures at this point of time, the military channel (PPV) released some pictures. I managed to capture a couple of these pictures off my TV. Ive attached a slideshow containing all the pictures I managed […]
Commentary
Web Designer: Necessary Skills
D. Keith Robinson posted about Web design skills of a successful Web designer. His list: General Communication Interpersonal Communication Problemsolving Patience Adaptibility Information Architecture for the Web Visual Design Programming Web Development Writing Project Management I agree, for the most part, with his list. I wanted to take a crack at my own, from a […]
Resource List
CSS Help Pile Directory
CSS Help Pile Directory (scribble view)‘ This could prove to be incredibly useful.
Link Post
TILT
TILT: Table Injection for Layout Technique Using DOM to “inject” tables into a table-less layout. All the benefits of a table based layout, without the myriad drawbacks! Brilliant.
Essay
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 […]