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November, 2008 archive

Web-blast 08 - tickets go on sale this morning

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

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 Friday 5th December, 2008.
Tickets go on sale at 9am on Thursday 27th November […]

Some links for light reading (25/11/08)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

W3C Markup Validation Service adds experimental HTML5 support
Foxmarks
Business case for deleting content: Gerry McGovern
Niceforms
Experience the angst, joy and insights of an interaction designer living on the edge of virtual reality
5 Tips for Startups and Entrepreneurs
Terrific Tables with CSS
Oiko CSS editor
RESTful CSS
Dyslexia and accessibility
15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools
A More Useful 404
This is How the Web […]

Two articles - now in italian

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Thanks to Luca Magnani Styling the <hr> element has now been translated into Italian and Ideal line length for content has now been translated into Italian.

Some links for light reading (18/11/08)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Sample Size Oddities
floatitis pt6
The Best Cheat Sheets for Web Developers
50+ Gorgeous Navigation Menus
jQuery Corners
People Are From Earth, Machines Are From Outer Space
Designing Tables for Usability
JS-909: A drum machine in JavaScript
Are Accessibility Statements Useful?
Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
15 Useful Project Management Tools
Download free ColdFusion code, examples, MS SQL code and examples, CFCs, classes and […]

Webstock interview

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Mike Brown from Webstock asks me some hard questions including:

You’ve been quoted as saying that “sleep is for pussies”. Tell us about a typical working day for you - what you do, what hours you work, how much sleep you get.
You do a lot of teaching and training with HTML and CSS. Have things improved? […]

Some links for light reading (11/11/08)

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Keyboard-accessible Google Maps
Making decisions about user research
CSS3 box-sizing attribute
jastASlide
CSS Transforms
The Ethics of Quick Backlinking Strategy
Is your (website’s) underwear showing?
Writing Content that Works for a Living
Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript
Clarifying a Web Standards Workflow
Floatitis pt5/the future of inline-block
Fake User Profiles: Free Speech or Defamation?
jQuery History plugin
Intersquash.com - iPhoneize your website
Review: Google phone
Optimizing by Color: How Color […]

Three new translations

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: выравнивание inline изображений с помощью css свойства vertical-align
Web standards checklist has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: checklist web-стандартов
Web standards checklist has now been translated into Swedish by Lillan Backa. Translation: Web standards checklist - […]

Pushing the boundaries on content-rich websites

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

On the 6 November 2008 the inaugural Edge of the Web event was held in Perth.
The conference was organised by Australian Web Industry Association and Red Horizon Events, and boasted a great speaker list!
Here are the slides from my talk on “Pushing the boundaries on content-rich websites”.

The Australian Museum recently implemented a number of open-communication […]

Some info on URL canonicalization

Friday, November 7th, 2008

I have seen the negative effects of URL Canonicalization in action. Have you?

“Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages.”

SEO advice: url canonicalization

“In computer science, canonicalization (abbreviated c14n, where 14 represents the number of letters between the C and the N) is […]

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 is a Proposed Recommendation

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 as a Proposed Recommendation, and published updated Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0, Techniques for WCAG 2.0, and How to Meet WCAG 2.0. WCAG defines how to make Web sites, Web applications, and other Web content accessible to people […]