Month: July 2006

BrowserCam and now DeviceCam

Many people make extensive use of BrowserCam for screen capture and remote access service for cross platform compatibility testing and HTML design quality assurance. They are announcing a new service: BrowserCam’s newest improvement is DeviceCam, which works exactly like our classic screen capture service. The big difference is what it lets you do. With DeviceCam, you can see how your website will look on PDAs. Whether a PDA’s screen is in portrait format or landscape format,
DeviceCam will help you to fine tune your website for your customers who are
always on the move.

Opera’s had a free handheld simulator for quite a while, but this, although not free, will certainly offer more options.

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Repost: Call for Entries in the Style Me Challenge

The Style Me Challenge invites designers to create the CSS for an XHTML page. I had a similar Style Me exercise in my first book, and want to expand it for my new book, Mastering Integrated HTML & CSS. The new book is due out from Wiley Publishing in the Spring of 2007. There will be a full color insert in the book where I plan to showcase some of the designs created for a new Style Me Challenge. If your CSS design is chosen for the book, your name and a link to your website will be included, as well as a brief description of you or your design business. In addition to the free publicity, you’ll get a copy of the book. Get all the details and download the files needed to submit an entry.

New Tutorial: CSS Express Drop-Down Menus

This new tutorial CSS Express Pure CSS Drop-Down and Popup Menus by PVII from Project Seven has (free!) all the code, CSS, and scripts you need to build a drop down menu. If you’re teaching, it would make a great project. If you’re just looking for a drop-down menu, here’s a nice way to make one.

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More online educational material resources

Two new sources for higher ed curriculum teaching materials came to my attention today. First is MERLOT, a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. This is a Canadian group with yearly conferences, peer review, and a large collection of materials.

The second is Connexions, which offers free scholarly materials.

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The ability to write

In a guest post by Jon Symons at Entrepreneur’s Journey by Yaro Starak, Symons talks about the ability to write for humans and well as search engines. Are You Neglecting this Essential Internet Business Skill? He starts off by saying, “It’s ironic but in the whole deluge of textual information presented on the web, the skill most sorely lacking is the ability to write. We’ve seen Yaro and others write about how AdSense (I’ve nicknamed it Crack-Sense) is ruining the Internet and it certainly is true. Not only has the fact that Google will pay you very well to put crap sites online contaminated the global well of information by spawning infinite spam sites, but it has also changed the nature of that information as well.”

You get good advice about how to write well. I say good advice because it appeals to me as a fan of the concept of writing practice that was popularized by Natalie Goldberg. (Here’s a Sun Magzine interview with Natalie Goldberg explaining writing practice if you’ve never heard of it.)

It isn’t just about writing well in general, however, it’s also about writing for humans and search engine bots, and these points are touched on in this article also.

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Web Accessibility Toolbar now available for Opera

The Web Accesibility Tools Consortium has provided a dowloadable toolbar for Opera. In addition to downloading the toolbar, they also recommend downloading the menu, skin, and keyboard hot keys; read the download instructions more carefully than usual. Get it here: Resource Center – About: WAT for Opera

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