Book Review
Designing with Web Standards
Jefferey Zeldman This is the starting point. If you are looking to learn about Web development, start here.
The Journal
Written Observations
Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
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PHP and MySQL install on a Mac
Andy Budd wrote up a handy little guide to installing PHP5 and MySQL on a Mac for a nice testing environment. Thanks Andy.
Commentary
First Mozilla Spyware app detected
It was only a matter of time. Spyware takes aim at Mozilla It’ll be interesting to see what comes out eventually. Note that this does not currently affect Firefox. Sjouwerman said that “stealth spyware” targeted at Firefox is “bound to happen” as hackers are currently working hard trying to find security holes in the open-source […]
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Clear Type
This isn’t exactly news but I thought I’d link this here for your benefit. How to activate cleartype on Windows XP It will make everything look prettier. I don’t know why default isn’t “on”. If you haven’t done this, do it now.
Commentary
Thinking of being a consultant?
Sound advice So you want to be a consultant Or: Why work 8 hours a day for someone else, when you can work 16 hours a day for yourself?
Essay
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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Free PHP RSS Aggregation Script
Free PHP RSS Agregation Script from FeedForAll. A nice little gadget that will come in handy at some point.
Commentary
Intuitive Web Design
Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering has some interesting commentary on What makes a design seem intuitive. The distance between current knowledge and target knowledge has a technical name: “The Gap”. (Subsequently, an entire chain of clothing stores was named after it!) The Knowledge Gap is where design happens. We don’t need to design to […]
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RSS Copyright can of worms
Scobel has compiled a nice list of arguments about RSS copyright issues.
Commentary
Accessibility Testing: Screen Readers
The U.S. National Cancer Institute recently did a user study of screen reader users. The Communication Technologies Branch of the United States National Cancer Institute (part of National Institutes of Health and Department of Health and Human Services) has been conducting usability testing with people with disabilities, specifically blind and lowvision users, to * understand […]
Recommendation
iPhoto plus Photon plus MT
A helpful little walkthrough by Doug Bowman at Stop Design on using Photon (a $10 program by Daikini software) to export photos from iPhoto to a MovableType blog. Very useful.
Quick Take
Google search update
Crazy. I’m listed as #4 for a search for “Web Design Blog” on google. Not that millions of people search for that I guess. It’s still kinda cool :) What’s weird is that I haven’t done much with this blog in over a month. I feel like I should pick it back up or something. […]