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4096 Color Wheel
A Web safe color picker. Very handy. 4096 Color Wheel
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Yahoo’s new baby
Yahoo launched a new search engine yesterday. Time to start vying for placement, this one could be big.
Quick Take
Firefox
I’m a little behind on this one (the news came out earlier this week, I was just too lazy to blog it): Mozilla has renamed Firebird to Firefox. Regardless of Dave Shea’s comments that Firefox sounds like an ’80s hair band, I think it is a sweet name. Although, it no longer sounds like a […]
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Accessible Typography
Something I have taken interest in recently is Web Typography. Like graphic design, it is something I have very little experience with, but am pursuing in order to become a better Web designer. You may have noticed some changes to the typeface of this site in an effort to be more readable, artsy, and generally […]
Reflection
Presentation
I presented on good Web site design practices today at Webster City Middle School. The presentation was very rudimentary, but covered some foundational elements. It was also a lot of fun. Apparently it went over pretty well with the kids too :).
Commentary
Compliance.
AOL and Sprint have recently redesigned using Web Standards! This is a huge move forward for standards advocates. It always helps to be able to point to a big dog company when a client tells you “but we NEED to support Netscape 4.7!” No one needs to support Netscape 4.x anymore. It is a dead […]
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Mac desecration
If you are a real geek, you’ve probably already seen this. But it is hillarious. The hoaxer, identified only as “Andy,” claimed he received a dual-processor G5 for Christmas. But preferring a Windows PC, he swapped out the insides of the $3,000 machine for the guts of a cheapo PC. My favorite reaction: “I’m a […]
Commentary
Browser Support
So, which browsers should one code for when making Web sites? Well, there is some general wisdom that should be stated first: The answers will vary depending on a) a site�s users, b) what you�re trying to accomplish, c) budget and time contraints, and d) personal philosophy. This is taken from A great blog by […]
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Web design
From the great Dave Shea (creator of the CSS Zen Garden. (no relation to Dan (At least I don’t think))) (yay for parenthetical statements). I used to think [that you should develop first in IE, then test in Mozilla and the rest], but there’s a good reason why my mindset shifted. If you develop in […]
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Definition List
One important aspect of coding with Web standards is semantically correct markup (that is, choosing the proper HTML tag for the TEXT you are MARKing UP. (HTML = hyper TEXT MARKUP language). An analogy can be drawn between using semantically correct markup, and using proper grammar. I think a more apt analogy is comparing proper […]
Quick Take
William Gates KBE
Bill Gates was Knighted “The honorary KBE is in recognition of his outstanding contribution to enterprise, employment, education and the voluntary sector in the United Kingdom,” the Foreign Office said. This on the heels of Tim Berners-Lee’s Knighthood leaves me with some hope :)
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IAEA redesign
The International Atomic Energy Agency recently redesigned their Web site using CSS and XHTML. It is good to see an international organization using international Standards in designing their site. Their previous version was a mish mash of tables, images-instead-of-text, tag soup, and other highly inaccessible (and nonsensical) “techniques”.