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Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers
Trust in the Little Things
The rules of unobtrusive JavaScript
The rise of the micro-app
Collecting for Design
Your Best Practices for Creating Great PNGs
The Four Disciplines of Content Management
Building the UX Dreamteam
Behaviour, Content and Presentation: why the 3 layer model is wrong
PoshCSS
The iPhone Effect
Dust-Me Selectors Version 2.0
Interface research
Social Design Reading List
There’s No Money In […]

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 Wednesday 12 December, 2007.
Registration is now closed
All 350 tickets have now gone. However, […]

How to Size Text in CSS
Understanding Web Design
Choke Web Development Framework 1.0
Taking the canvas to another dimension
Use the label element to make your HTML forms accessible
Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay’s Registration
Crappy Personas vs. Robust Personas
Designing for Nonprofits
The AxsJAX Framework for ARIA
Are You Readable? Find Out with Your Feed
Long vs. Short Articles as Content Strategy
Facebooks Brilliant […]

what is web-blast?
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 Wednesday 12 December, 2007.
Registration opens on Monday 26 November!

What:
Web-blast 07
When:
Wednesday 12 […]

The word Tetrad fundamentally refers to “a set or group of four”. However, the word is used in a variety of ways including:

2 km x 2 km square area
set of four musical notes
set of four vector fields (general relativity frame fields)
complementary pair of colors (referred to as double complementary)

Tetradic or ‘double complementary’ colour schemes use […]

Semantify, and CSS tools based on Blueprint
Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation
Tips For Creating Great Web Forms
CSS Transforms
JavaScript Madness: Keyboard Events
13 Awesome Javascript CSS Menus
Linkdump on ECMAScript 3/4
Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay’s Registration
Planning and Sustaining Wiki-based Collaboration Projects
Dojo Toolkit
CSS PNG Image fix for IE
The seven rules of Unobtrusive JavaScript
7 usability guidelines for websites on mobile devices
Design of a […]

Mini Barcamp will be on November 11 between 2pm and 6pm (with possibility of extension to 7.30pm) at Victoria Park in Camperdown on City Road at Broadway.
The event will be truly agile. There is no need to register, just rock up on the day. We can use the tent and surrounding grassy areas for break-outs. […]

Blasting the Myth of the Fold
Extend Firefox 2
Alt text and form buttons set as images
Deadline First, Plan Second
Grid - JavaScript bookmarklet
PHP + CSS Dynamic Text Replacement (P+C DTR)
CSS Animation
Friendly URLs
A Brief History of Programming, Part 2
3 Great Learning Strategies for Generalists
Googles Social Design Best Practices
The Social Enterprise - What Works, and What Doesn’t
RSS: Best Design […]

The other day I had to style a menu that looked like this:

While styling the menu, I came across an interesting problem. The Content management system was writing two classes into the same element, and there were times when I needed to use both of these classes for styling.
I had to take two classes like […]

2DAY
today
2MORO
tomorrow
2NITE
to night
4EVRYRS
for ever yours
A3
anytime, anywhere, anyplace
AAM
as a matter of fact
AFAIK
as far as I know
AFK
away from keyboard
AKA
also known as
ASAP
as soon as possible
ASL
age, sex, location
ATB
all the best
ATK
at the keyboard
ATM
at the moment
B4
before
B4N
bye for now
BAK
back at keyboard
BBFN
bye bye for now
BBL
be back later
BBS
Be Back Soon
BBSD
be back soon darling
BCNU
be seeing you
BdBy
bad boy
BF
boy friend
BFN/B4N
bye for now
BRB
be right back
BRT
be right there
BTW
by the way
BYKT
but […]