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February, 2008 archive

Some links for light reading (26/2/08)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

CSS Type Test
The 4 layers of a form
Margins and padding pt1/an introduction
Don’t lose your head over accessibility
Start Your Own Business
How to Build a Green Business
Five web 2.0 CSS menu tutorials
Designing Your Information Architecture for Content Reuse: Five Best Practices
Grid and Column Designs
Doctype switching for IE 8
On IE8 version targeting
The road to finding is paved […]

Coloured boxes - now in Brazilian-Portuguese

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Colored boxes - one method of building full CSS layouts has now been translated into Brazilian-Portuguese by Mauricio Samy Silva - Layout CSS passo a passo

Some links for light reading (19/2/08)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

They Shoot Browsers, Don’t They?
Version Targeting: Threat or Menace?
Inside the link/uncovering more bugs
Wiki markup has no future
The Trouble With Web 2.0
25 Ways To Improve Your Site In 5 Minutes
10 best CSS hacks
Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
How to design a system that everybody hates
Website Optimization Measures, Part II
An update to […]

Website user experience & CSS workshop

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS expert, Russ Weakley.
Over two full days you will build detailed websites layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
Day 1: Planning and designing the user experience […]

Some links for light reading (12/2/08)

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

FancyZoom 1.1
Keeping Your Elements’ Kids in Line with Offspring
The Rules of Digital Engagement
Detailed Look at Stacking in CSS
Social Software Building Blocks
Come on my selector part 3 - bug me not
The 7 CSS Hacks that we should use
CSS reset and quirky quotes
Shopping Carts Gallery: Examples and Good Practices
Make sure your website works with or without […]

Sorry day

Monday, February 11th, 2008

On 13 February 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will deliver the apology to the Indigenous people of Australia. This will occur over 10 years after the Bringing Them Home human rights report recommended that the government apologise for the policy of removing indigenous kids from their parents.
This historic event will be streamed live across the […]

Anatomy of a comment

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

The Australian Museum web team recently began looking at commenting. We wanted to see what sort of items could appear in a comment.
After a look around a wide variety of sites, we came up with a list of possible aspects that could be included in a comment:

Author name - who wrote the comment
Authors url - […]

“Background images for bullets” - now in French

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Background images for bullets has now been translated into French by Rodrigue Hunel and the developpez.com team - Des images à la place des puces de liste

Idiocy - it is a skill that cannot be taught

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Ok, some people may think that they have a good handle on idiocy, but I am here to tell you that I RULE in this department. Let me give you a snapshot of the last 24 hours or so…

Drive to airport.
Find a narrow parking spot at airport car park and decide “its very close to […]

Some links for light reading (5/2/08)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

The Principles of Beautiful HTML Email
Attention Profiling Mark-up Language: The open standard for Attention Metadata
10 ways people find new web apps
X-UA-Compatible: let sleeping intranets lie?
A “just do it” approach to IT projects in Government
AJAX and Screen Readers - Content Access Issues
Come on my selector part 2
Companies must listen to the Web 2.0 world
IE7 mystery: The […]