Doug Shepers from the W3C put together a slideshow in SVG, HTML, CSS and JavaScript that is worth your time. It’s an SVG demo. Play with it. View it in the latest Firefox. BAM or Blog Accessibility Mastermind is a six lesson course offered by Glenda Watson Hyatt of Do It Myself Blog. I haven’t [...]
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 [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
product A review by Web Teacher of (rating: 5 stars) 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 [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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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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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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.
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