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Two years ago today, Roger Hudson and I posted an article on Gez Lemon’s excellent Juicy Studios site called Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties.
For those who want an insight from an Autistic person’s perspective, the Youtube movie “In My Language” is well worth watching.
This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow […]

Scenario 1: You are angry. You decide to blog, while under the influence of rage. The next day you wish you had never written the entry at all. If only you could let people know that you wrote this post when you were angry and upset.
Scenario 2: You write a flippant blog post. You think […]

Upcoming CSS3 support in Opera
Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007
Whitespace
Paper Prototyping
Quick CSS Mockups with Photoshop
Usability heuristics for web development teams
Improving Ajax applications for JAWS users
Heuristics for Modern Web Application Development
Interview with Doug Bowman
Event-Driven Web Application Design
Practical, Entry-Level Web Accessibility
Quick Guide To Creating RSS Feeds
Five CSS tricks that repeatedly saved my a**e, why need […]

Design Feed
Bulletproof Ajax
Attributes > Classes: Custom DOM Attributes for Fun and Profit
7 Habits of a Highly Successful In-house Web Designer
You, me and the W3C (aka Reinventing HTML)
Styling form controls with CSS, revisited
It’s in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website
Markup as a Craft
Always Specify A Background Colour
New Dutch accessibility law
The Definitive […]

Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water… the Web Standards checklist has just been translated into another two languages - Dutch, thanks to Ramon Eijkemans and Romanian, thanks to Adrian Sandu.
Now all we need is a translation into one of over 200 Australian Indigenous languages and we will be […]

When: January 25, 2007Where: Australian Museum, SydneyTime: 6.30pm for 7pm startCost: $7 per head to cover drinks and nibblesMore: Meeting information
Cheryl Lead - Life after code
Not everyone codes forever - how one girl experimented with different roles after she wanted to move on from development work.
Cheryl has recently left Virgin Money where she was Digital […]

HTML5 Elements and Attributes
Easy cross-browser transparency
The Line Between Clarity and Chaos: An Interview with Barry Schwartz
Edgework interview: Dan Cederholm
Interview with founder of Fadtastic - Andrew Faulkner
RSS Will Not Make the Mainstream
Introducing Text-Stroke
Numeric Access Keys Fixed in Firefox
Bug: IE7 absolutely positioned italics
Chris Wilson, Internet Explorer 7 and CSS 2.1 compliance
2006 artypapers Awards
How I Explained REST to […]

The Web Standards Checklist has just been transalted into Norwegian, thanks to the efforts of Tormod Rangnes.
The Checklist article is now available in 15 different languages (including two Italian version). The list includes:

Bulgarian
Chinese
Spanish
Italian
Italian
French
German
Polish
French (Quebec)
Portuguese
Czech
Russian
Finnish
Serbian
Hungarian
Norwegian

I’m always amazed that people can translate other peoples work - let alone technical articles. Reminds me of a quote from Muhammad […]

Pebble Road, one of Singapore’s leading design consultancies is proud to announce “CSS Workshop with Russ Weakley“.

Title: CSS Workshop with Russ Weakley
When: February 08 2007
Time: 9:00 am–5:00 pm
Where: Singapore Polytechnic Graduates Guild Clubhouse
Further information: Pebble Road - events

What will you learn

A solid understanding of the basics of CSS including rule sets, Selectors, Shorthand rules, […]