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Prettier Accessible Forms
Behavioral Separation
How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team
Online training library
Welcome to Opera 9
Two revolutionary features in Opera 9
Clean CSS
LITbox
Taxonomies vs tagging
Ten Common CSS mistakes
Inline CSS should not be allowed in strict doctypes
Mobilicious
How to redirect a web page, the smart way
HTML emails
50 ways to become a better designer

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The concept of tagging is embraced by some people and shunned by others. There is also a group of people that sit between both camps, happy with tagging as long as there is some degree of control.
I have spoken to librarians who dread the thought of users being involved in the tagging process as they […]

Max Design recently held an CSS info night in Sydney. The talk outlined what CSS is, how it works and a brief history. For those that missed the talk, here are a range of relevant Max Design CSS resources:
Online tutorials

Listutorial - teaches the basics of building background image lists, rollover lists, nested lists and horizontal […]

The conference records of all speakers from Webstock are now online. My presentation - “Let go and allow users to control their own experience” is available in mpg format, mp3 format and slide format.
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Site Check
Sizer
What are you Scrutinizing for?
Nifty CSS round
Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers
Levels of HTML knowledge
Your HTML level
Levels of Accessibility Knowledge - a send-up of “level of”
CSS Mania World Awards
Andy Budd - Accessibility interview
A tipping point for microformats
Internationalization Primer
Front-End Architecture: Browsers
CSS Formatter and Optimiser
Microformats search

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We had a huge turnout for our latest Sydney Web Standards Group meeting. Around 60 people came to hear Cameron Adams talk about JavaScript/AJAX and David Hawking talk about searchability. The group also managed to break the record for overall consumption of beer at a WSG event. A special thanks to Red Square, who sponsored […]

Last weeks Webstock was an amazing event. Though I didn’t get time to hear all the speakers, there was definitely a great vibe around the place and the event was incredibly well organised.
Congratulations to Mike Brown and the gang, and thank you all for the invitation to hold a workshop and for the opportunity to […]