by Web Teacher product Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript (Amazon affiliate link) ★★★★★ Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript by Jonathan Lane, Meitar Moscovitz and Joseph R. Lewis is from Friends of ED (2008). I recommend this book. It is not the usual heavy dose of XHTML and CSS that [...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Live blogging first afternoon session . . . JavaScript with Derek Featherstone Derek talked about how to make JavaScript “not the enemy.” He talked about unobtrusive JavaScript and things that are going on in the scripting world and with Ajax. He said Ajax is to web pages what instant messaging is to email. JavaScript needs [...]
Saturday, December 27, 2008
by Web Teacher product Universal Design for Web Applications: Web Applications That Reach Everyone (Amazon affiliate link) ★★★★★ Universal Design for Web Applications by Wendy Chisholm and Matt May is from O’Reilly (2008). This is a great little book. It manages to take a new approach to accessibility that includes HTML, CSS, scripting, AJAX, RIAs [...]
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Entertainment Software Ratings Board provides a database of games that can be searched by rating. These are ratings for age-appropriateness and content, rather like movie ratings. If you are buying games for kids this year, it’s a handy resource. More on developing naming conventions, Microformats and HTML5 Andy Clarke talks about naming conventions in an [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Everyone has heard of search engine optimization, right? But have you heard of findability? I hadn’t, until recently. The term “findability” seems to originate with Peter Morville, who published a book called Ambient Findability in 2002. Blogger DonnaM wrote about it in 2004 in Usability testing for findability. Jakob Neilsen wrote about it in 2006 [...]
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The Future of Web Design (FOWD) Conference was held the week before Thanksgiving in New York City. One of those in attendance was Kristin Vincent from Webgrrls. Kristen came home from the conference and wrote a visionary post called The Web’s Future: Peering into the Crystal Ball. She summarized some of the highlights of the [...]
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Reviewer: Virginia DeBolt Summary: very useful product Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries (Pro) Rating: 5/5 Accelerated DOM Scriptiing with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries is from Apress (2007). The book is mainly by Jonathan Snook, with additional chapters from Aaron Gustafson, Stuart Langridge and Dan Webb. Each of the additional chapters provides an [...]
In Accessibility and Usability issues with AJAX, Joe Dolson provides a think piece detailing the issues and solutions for accessibility and AJAX. This analysis is useful information for anyone using or teaching AJAX. This is not a technical article. You will not learn how to code AJAX by reading this; either in an accessible and [...]
Saturday, February 3, 2007
A tip of the hat to Dori Smith for pointing out the Yahoo! UI Library (YUI): “The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS [...]
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Wow, those guys over at The Ajax Experience just don’t get it. They think Ajax is a men’s club. Compare the speakers list at SXSW Interactive or the speakers list at Webstock. If any women are thinking of investing in The Ajax Experience, I hope they will contact me for a consciousness-raising session before they [...]
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