Tuesday, January 11, 2011
I kind of hate infographics. Seems like everybody who owns a copy of Photoshop thinks they should make one and tweet about it. I’ve looked at a lot of them lately. Is it a fad? Of the ones I’ve seen, maybe 3 were effective and the rest were impossible. Translated, here’s what I mean by [...]
Thursday, October 14, 2010
See Also: ARIA States 101 As part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (ARIA), defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible. It is used to improve the accessibility of dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. [...]
InterACT with Web Standards: a Holistic Approach to Web Design is available today. This announcement is a BIG DEAL. This book puts everything you need to teach a class in web design or development with web standards into your hands. The book is easy to use in connection with InterACT’s 17 courses in 6 learning [...]
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
I’ve never had a problem selecting the Female option on a form asking me whether I’m male or female. Never a pause for thought, never an unsure moment. Nothing in my long life ever prompted me to hesitate over the choice between male or female. An easy choice is probably the case for most people. [...]
product A review by Web Teacher of Web Design for Developers: A Programmer’s Guide to Design Tools and Techniques (Pragmatic Programmers) (rating: 3 stars) Web Design for Developers: A Programmers Guide to Design Tools and Techniques by Brian P. Hogan, is, as the title suggests, aimed at developers rather than at designers. In just over [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
In the old days, many of us learned to make web pages by first thinking about the “look” and what images, fonts, color schemes, and graphic design elements we would use to achieve it. We launched Photoshop or Fireworks and played with the look until we knew precisely (down to the pixel) what the page [...]
It’s wise to test your site as you’re building it. Check your pages for accessibility, for validity, for appearance and function as you go along. Don’t wait until you’re finished to think about things like valid code and accessibility. Even when you do those things as a normal part of your process, you still need [...]
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
In case you haven’t already picked this bookmarklet up from Zeldman’s blog, here’s Soma FontFriend. “This is a bookmarklet made for web designers who want to rapidly check how different fonts and font styles look on their screen without editing code and refreshing pages.” Keeping an aging population online looks at accessible forms. It seems [...]
Friday, December 18, 2009
We’re all presenters–in the classroom, at conferences, among your colleagues. Here are 9 Tips for Enriching Your Presentations with Social Media. One of the tips in the article is about the backchannel, a topic I’m interested in and have talked about here and here and from SXSWi and again here as well as at BlogHer. [...]
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