Tuesday, October 16, 2007
I presented this at HighEdWebDev 2007 today. It was presented as a powerpoint presentation. My narrative explained that this presentation was mainly about what sort of student learning outcomes I would expect to see in an institution where web standards were part of the curriculum. I did touch on a couple of important overall considerations [...]
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(with apologies to ee cummings) in Web- standards when the world is markup- luscious the semantic html advocate separates words and presentation and everyone comes running from the inaccessible and unusable and it’s joy when the content is open-wonderful the valid old handcoder posts far [...]
I discovered a very interesting woman in the course of getting ready for SXSW. My co-presenter for a SXSW Interactive panel, Stephanie Troeth, is that woman. Luckily, she agreed to an interview of sorts, since I thought you would like to know more about her, too. Steph is a member of the Web Standards Project [...]
A new group dedicated to promoting the global use of standards to ensure an equitable Web is the International Liaison Group – The Web Standards Project. According to the announcement written by Molly Holzschlag, ILG is formally led by two incredibly dedicated women, Stephanie Troeth and Glenda Sims, whose individual contributions to professionalism and excellence [...]
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Dan Russell has a couple of posts on sense making over at Creating Passionate Users. Today’s post said something that stuck me as a key element in terms of teaching web design. The point is that you need to frame things because the act of framing helps to focus on what to do next. There’s [...]
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Here’s an interesting article about how to internationalize your web site. Internationalization is fast becoming more and more important as a standard practice. Writer Huiping Iler has seven suggestions in this article called Digital Web Magazine – It’s in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website “When it comes to creating a successful [...]
Thursday, December 20, 2001
Saw a report that Chinese will be the most common language on the Web by 2007. Are you ready to help students internationalize their Web sites? Here are some resources. • Script Junkie article in Web Techniques • Universal Currency Converter • Research-It! Language Tools • Localisation Industry Standard Association • Dot-Com Builder: Internationalizing a [...]