Skip to content

Category Archives: mobiles

Pew Research Looks at Social Media and Young Adults

Pew Research took a look at teens and young adults and the trends in social media and mobile use among the youthful crowd. The catch word to identify this generation is “millennials,” or the first generation to come of age in the new millennium.
Pew first announced their findings on Twitter at @pewresearch earlier this month. [...]

Useful links: accessibility mistakes, WAVE in Dreamweaver, countdown to mobile, Gartner predictions, ePub for Web Designers

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 to 2013: [...]

Apple’s new iPad–is it magical?

(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 announcement event [...]

Useful links: SVG, location aware, video

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 [...]

Designing with Structural Thinking

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 [...]

Ask your phone for answers

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. These [...]

Summary of eHow articles for September

Lots of hummingbirds in my life this past month. Their whirring was like traffic noise around my house. They even made their way into my eHow articles.

How to Tweet Your Mobile Video
How to Use Spry Widgets in Library Items or SSI
How to Find People to Follow on Twitter
How to Use the Adobe Flash Accessibility Panel
How [...]

Useful Links: Passwords, YUI, mobile web class

Useful links include an article about password security, a new YUI release link, a class in mobile web best practices.

Useful Links: Drive Me Crazy, Community Building, Mobile Design, Best Job

Links to top notch articles about what not to do on the web, how to build community, designing for mobiles, and finding the best job in the world.
More . . .

iPhone questions

Every once in a while I get infected with the desire–the urgent NEED–for an iPhone. So far, I haven’t succumed to the urge because it will be so expensive to get out of the contract I have with my current phone company. I need your advice.