No, You Can’t Automate Social Media from Techipedia is a thoughtful post about people who are trying to build a social media campaign based on automation. While the Techipedia article needs no help making its point, there’s a similar piece at Web Worker Daily called 10 Ways to Really Connect Through Social Media that is [...]
Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution from the POTUS promises more broadband. We need it. Is it google.cn or google.hk? Either way, it’s a workaround for searching in China. See An Update on China. It’s Social Media Day. Mashable wants you to attend a meetup in your area to celebrate your social medianess. Getting the hang [...]
product A review by Web Teacher of Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps (rating: 4 stars) Mobile Design and Development by Brian Fling is from O’Reilly (2009). This is a rich, deep look at mobile design. A multitude of devices and platforms defy standard answers to [...]
11 Ways to Create a Mobile Friendly WordPress Site lists plugins and apps that can help with your WordPress site. I need to check out some of these myself. I’m thinking I like either MoFuse or Mobify. Do any of you have an opinion about using either of these plug-ins? I’d appreciate any input. US [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Common Accessibility Mistakes at Visual Twenty-Eight is a good checklist of things to make sure you aren’t doing. WAVE Dreamweaver Extension is just out from WebAIM. It’s in beta, and there are some limitations at the moment. Now you can get a WAVE report on your page right in Dreamweaver. Super! Gartner forecast The road [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
(A shorter version of this article posted at BlogHer.) Whether Apple’s announcement of the tablet dubbed iPad made you long for one, scoff at how unnecessary they are, or crack jokes about the choice of name, you have to admit it was a huge announcement. In Internet terms alone, the number of tweets as the [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Two articles on using SVG for backgrounds by Shelley Powers are at A List Apart this week. Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I and Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II. You learn when to use it, where it works, how it works, tools to build it, and [...]
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 [...]
Have you started talking to the hand yet? The hand with the phone in it, but no one on the other end? I have and I confess I was enamored after one use and will never look back. I have an iPhone and I just discovered the Google Mobile and Bing apps for my phone. [...]