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Some links for light reading (27/11/06)

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Recent Accessibility Podcasts
Communique
Inline image quotes
More thoughts on portable social networks
The Road to the Semantic Web
Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture
Interview with Matt Davies
Wake up and smell the IE7!
Create site tours with Amberjack
Jeffrey Zeldman On Why To Incorporate Web Standards
Insert HTML page into another HTML page
Web 2.0 style buttons
XSLT 2.0, […]

Some links for light reading (22/11/06)

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Newly Supported CSS Selectors in IE7
Introducing the Technorati Link Count Widget
CSS: Browser testing order
CSS Styling for Print and Other Media
Creativity Jam Session: Write Your Own Web Dev Job Advert
How To Subclass The JavaScript Array Object
May The Source be with you
BuzFeed - find your favourite thing
PAS 78: A lesson in Terms and Conditions
Testing the Three-Click Rule
The […]

Web-blast Canberra

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Following on from Sydney, comes Web-blast Canberra - a huge end-of-year party for Canberra’s web community - bringing together web designers, web project managers, interface designers, information architects and other web professionals. Join a range of Canberra’s web communities and celebrate the end of year in style on December 12, 2006.

When: Tuesday 12 December 2006
Time: […]

Two columns with colour - back online

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

In December 2003 I wrote an article for Nemesis, called Two columns with colour. The article showed how to make a two column CSS layout with colour in either column that could spread to the full height of the page. The method is very familiar to most people now, using a simple background image to […]

Webstock mini

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Webstock mini will be held in Wellington on Wednesday 6 December. It looks like an exciting event with Trade Me’s user tester, Natasha Hall; acclaimed blogger and media commentator, Russell Brown; and O’Reilly author and Perl guru Nat Torkington.
I’ll be running a full day advanced CSS workshop the same day. This workshop sold out quite […]

Inline elements and padding

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Have you ever tried to add padding to <li> elements that have been set to “display: inline”? Did you find that the padding seemed to be rendering in an unusual way? Inline elements and padding explains why this occurs and one method that can be used to overcome the problem.
Tags: inline, element, padding

Web-blast 06 - a huge end-of-year party for Sydney’s web community

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Web-blast is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney’s web community - bringing together web designers, web project managers, interface designers, information architects and other web professionals. Join a range of Sydney’s web communities and celebrate the end of year in style on Thursday November 30, 2006.
UPDATE: ALL TICKETS ARE NOW GONE

When: Thursday 30 November 2006
Time: […]

Some links for light reading (15/11/06)

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Joe Clark Micropatronage
Deconstructing the Mobile Web
Newly Supported CSS Selectors in IE7
CSS3.info
Joe Dizon on starting your web standards journey.
IE 7 Supports More CSS Selectors, Whip-e-dee-doo-da
Playing with CSS selectors
Great Fonts for Web 2.0
The Top 10 Lies of Web 2.0
Caroline’s Corner: Eyetracking of Forms: should we accept the Conclusions?
CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions
Hatin’ on Javascript
Perfection Meets Reality
Is […]

Some links for light reading (9/11/06)

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

World Usability Day - 14th of November 2006
UN International Day for Disabled Persons - 6 December 2006
Have Your Say about the Future of HTML
EJ - the only JavaScript library you’ll ever need
Stylin’ Fonts and Text in CSS
Dynamic CSS changes
Getting Started with AJAX and the XMLHttpRequest Object
Browser review: Opera 9.02
Color: An Investigation
CSS Photo Shuffler
Win A […]

Some links for light reading (2/11/06)

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Reinventing HTML
Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup
Feeling validated
Accessibility statements or Site help pages?
Bulletproof Ajax - a new book by Jeremy Keith
Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys
CSS - what is the current starting point?
IE7 CSS tweak show and tell
Worlds highest website
Mobile Observations
Introduction to Microformats
Can Microformats be Validated?
Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful to […]