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Some links for light reading (24/8/06)

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Details on our CSS changes for IE7
New Headaches?
The Changing Face of University Websites
More W3C Controversy
Light text on dark background vs. readability
Competitive Analysis
About Pages
Your About Page Is a Robot
Understanding CSS Specificity
Sliced and Diced Sandbags
Assuring E-Accessibility: Providing Choices
CSS3: what it means, and what it doesn’t
Base Href Tag
Web Forms 2.0: Working Draft
A Web 2.0 Tour for the […]

Sydney Web Standards Group August meeting

Friday, August 18th, 2006

We had another great turnout for our latest Sydney Web Standards Group meeting tonight. 78 people coming along to hear Donna Maurer talk about “Web 2.0 applications and some of the traps associated with these newer forms of interaction”, then Roger Hudson talk about “ways of classifying information including the use of facets which can […]

Some links for light reading (17/8/06)

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Interview: Dan Cederholm
Free CSS Cart
Vision Quest
IE and CSS “Compliance”
The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch
Selling Information Architecture: Getting Executives to Say “Yes”
Screen Resolution and Page Layout
Clickstream Study Reveals Dynamic Web
Abilitypanel
Creating flexible buttons using Photoshop shapes and styles
Angry indeed
Angry, Not: Zeldman, Meyer, and Fair Concerns About the W3C
Animated Page Scrolling with Javascript

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“Dumbing down” vs “Writing more intelligently”

Friday, August 11th, 2006

I have worked in and around Scientists for almost 20 years. The primary role of these scientists is to conduct research in their chosen field. However, they also have a secondary role, which is to educate the broader public about the importance of science and the relevance of their particular field of study.
When asked to […]

Some links for light reading (8/8/06)

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

8 steps to serving better (x)html
CSS: Smart Corners
CSS Princess
Utilizing the Cut-off Look to Encourage Users To Scroll
Using “Guides” as a Supplemental Navigation Technique
Guide to Voiceover basics
Visual Vs. Structural?
Dynamic 3D with CSS and the DOM
Comprehensive XHTML reference:
Happy birthday WWW
A Handy CSS Debugging Snippet
FACE: Faruk’s Animated CSS Enhancements
Interview: A shortcut to 456 Berea Street
What to […]

Ten questions for Donna Maurer

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Donna is a freelance information architect and interaction designer. She has been designing structures and interfaces for websites, intranets, web applications and business tools professionally for more than 5 years, and has been hanging around the internet for much longer than that. Donna is an experienced speaker and has presented at many events, most recently […]