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August, 2007 archive

Some links for light reading (28/8/07)

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Speaklight - Web 2.0 CMS for designers
CSS Scuplture
Are You a Web Designer – or a Web Decorator?
Design Is Rocket Science
StyleSpread - CSS editor
CAPTCHAs on Social Networking Sites Shut Out Blind Users
Wiki while you work
Jacuba - online spell checker
A CSS styled table version 2
CSS Sprites Generator
Ten Tips for Optimizing a Web Page for Search Engines
Context […]

NSW Government Website Directives Forum

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Do you work in web related fields for the New South Wales Government, or contract to the NSW Government? If so, you are probably aware of the NSW Government Website Style Directive. The Directive aims to standardise key elements across all NSW Government web sites to create consistent and user-friendly sites that assist the public […]

BarCampSydney2 - breaking news

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Breaking news
Thanks to the generosity of ThoughtWorks, we will be installing a Wii station in the venue for your gaming pleasure. We’ll also be giving the Wii station away at the end of the day!
How does BarCamp work?

Register on the wiki.
Suggest a topic you may like to cover.
Come along on the day and help fill […]

Win a Danish copy of Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Teach Yourself CSS in Ten minutes is now available in Danish.
The first person who can accurately translate the paragraph below (hopefully without cheating and some online translation tool) will be sent a free Danish copy of the book:
Hereafter laver jeg lidt luft omkring <div>-elementet, så billederne ikke støder helt op til hinanden. Jeg skaber luften […]

Some links for light reading (22/8/07)

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Misconceptions about library classification
31 Days to Build a Better Blog–-Days 15-19
Bust a name
Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings
i love typography
SCSS - a Scheme module for parsing, querying, and emitting style information
Your Client Problems Solved: Answers (Part 2 of 3)
6 Keys to Understanding Modern CSS-based Layouts
Blueprint Grid CSS Generator
What is Enterprise 2.0?
CSS basic box model - […]

FullCodePress is over!

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Two teams of seven web developers (Australia vs New Zealand) battled it out over the weekend at FullCodePress. Both teams had 24 hours to build a fully functional website within the time frame. They were given a real website and real clients (an existing non-profit organisation each) at the beginning of the 24 hours and […]

Quick reminder - BarCampSydney on this Saturday!

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

BarCampSydney 2 is on this weekend

What: BarCampSydney 2
When: Saturday 25th August - one day only
Where: University of Technology, Sydney
Time: Starts 9am
Cost: Free
Register
Blog
Facebook
Upcoming

How does it work?
Register on the wiki. Suggest a topic you may like to cover. Come along on the day and help develop the schedule.
Take part in free form presentations, discussions, debates, panels - […]

Some links for light reading (14/8/07)

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Easy to read CSS reference with examples and illustrations
CSS Layouts: The Fixed. The Fluid. The Elastic.
Keryx (X)HTML Elements Best Practice Sheet
Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards
Turn a textarea into a WYSIWYG
Nifty Navigation Using CSS
The sad, sad state of the mobile web
Creative thinking hacks
The cold, cold heart of Web 2.0
PDF Prototypes: Mistakenly Disregarded and Underutilized
Google […]

The FullCodePress slanging match has started

Friday, August 10th, 2007

FullCodePress thought it might be interesting to interview the project manager of each team.
To give things a twist, Mike Brown (a New Zealander) interviewed the Australian PM, Marla Mitelman while I (an Australian) interviewed the New Zealand PM, Thomas Scovell. In true project management style, Thomas immediately delegated the interview to one of his team […]

25 HTML editors

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

A friend recently asked me about HTML editors. I thought I may as well share the list. So, here they are… 25 HTML editors, in alphabetical order. Are there any other good HTML Editors that have been omitted from the list?

AceHTML
Alleycode HTML Editor
Anansi
Aptana
Arachnophilia
BBEdit
Bluefish
Coda
CoffeeCup HTML Editor
Crea:text
EditPlus
Evrsoft 1st Page
Goodpage
HTML-Kit
Macromedia HomeSite
NoteTab
Oxygen
PSPad
Quanta Plus
Screem
SiteAid
SkEdit
Taco HTML Edit
TextMate
Xstandards

Being a Mac person, I […]