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A review by Web Teacher of Web Design for Developers: A Programmer’s Guide to Design Tools and Techniques (Pragmatic Programmers)
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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 300 pages, Hogan [...]
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Fancy Form Design by Jina Bolton, Tim Connell and Derek Featherstone is from Sitepoint Book (2009). This is really an excellent little book. It gives you tips on planning and designing a form that is both attractive and usable. It provides information on structuring the form using standards-based [...]
You now have access to all the Sitepoint References for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript available in Firefox as an add-on. You can download the Codeburner add-on free from Sitepoint.
The references provide syntax information, browser compatibility charts and sample code for HTML and CSS.
The new add-on was just released. For a limited time, you can get [...]
Opera adds core competencies in JavaScript to its curriculum, avatars matter, and a search for the perfect Dreamweaver extension maker. More. . .
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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 to be used [...]
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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 [...]
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 outside-the-box [...]
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 in [...]
Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Tips. Links to over 40 articles on styling form elements.
The <hr /> Contest from Smashing Magazine would be a fun way to start the semester for students who have enough visual arts training to enter.
DOM Assistant Bundle for Text Mate is a new extension for Text Mate from 456 Berea St.
Build Your Own Offices with Bloxes at Web Worker Daily. These bloxes were all over SXSWi, used for everything from signs to walls.
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