Thursday, August 19, 2010
Think Vitamin has a set of video tutorials that can be viewed free. Some look suitable for classroom use. Content Strategy Roles and You has some great ideas for organizing your workforce to fill content strategy roles. Be sure to check out the great infographic on approaches to web content strategy. Speaking of content strategy, [...]
For a while I toyed with the idea of using embedded fonts to liven up my web pages. I would read articles on how to do it and get discouraged. Some browsers needed one kind of font, some another—it was too much bother. Then Google came out with a font embedding system that is dead [...]
Apple announced a new HTML5 demo site. The site features all sorts of HTML5 demo projects, with the video demo coming right at the top of the list. There are demos on transitions, typography and more. Viewable in Safari, naturally. (Insert snark here.) At the bottom of the page, there’s a subtly placed link to [...]
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack is a free extension. Sorry, it only runs on CS5—can’t retrofit older versions of Dreamweaver. Togetherville: Walled Garden Social Networking for the Younger Set. There have been social networks for young children before, but this one is making news right now. I’m wondering what educators will do with this new [...]
Need a laugh? How to Successfully Educate Your Clients on Web Development at Smashing Magazine is really funny. Who moved my Enter key? from Know IT describes the role muscle memory plays in keyboarding. Personally, I’m still waiting for Mac and Windows to agree on the location and function of the Ctrl/Cmd keys. Moving from [...]
With typical hyperbole, the news of late has been filled with headlines like “Flash is dying” and “Apple kills Adobe Flash.” Well, here’s a headline that shows that Adobe hasn’t been asleep at the wheel in quite the manner all the iPad prognosticators thought: Flash CS5 with export to HTML5 Canvas. While we’re talking about [...]
The past few days there have been hundreds of stories about the release of the iPad. Stories about standing in line to buy it, stories about why it’s a great product, stories about why it’s not a great product, stories about why you should buy one, stories about why you shouldn’t buy one. It’s a [...]
Whenever you use :hover, also use :focus from 456 Berea Street explains why this is an accessibility issue. Apple came out with some new product this week. Maybe you heard about it. I think it made the news. Okay—seriously, amid all the posturings and opinions about why the iPad was a great thing or a [...]
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
From the don’t you love to speculate about the iPad rumors (or iPad competition) department, here’s news about Qualcomm’s Multi-Fold Device and about the future of the iSlate and Magic Slate names, and a story speculating about Verizon which would affect both the iPhone and the iPad. At CERN, scientists managed to create mini-versions of [...]
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