There’s no manual for behavior on the Internet. Most people behave well without it, but not all. I’m observing an incident at another site involving a review. I publish many reviews here. Most of the time the people whose work I’m reviewing are pretty quiet about it. They may stop by to say thanks for [...]
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
product HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide (7th Edition)by Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop is the latest edition in the Visual QuickStart Guide series about HTML and CSS. A couple of changes are immediately noticeable about the book. Elizabeth Castro now has a co-author after producing 6 editions of this book on her own. And [...]
Thursday, December 22, 2011
product Introducing HTML5 (2nd Edition) by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp is from New Riders (2012). The book includes everything from descriptions of new structural elements (like article, nav, and aside) to canvas, data storage, enabling offline, and drag and drop. It even includes some things that are not actually part of HTML5, like geolocation. [...]
Monday, November 14, 2011
As I mentioned, I want to give the new WordPress Image Gallery a try. I gathered up some photos from the 2011 SXSW Interactive Conference to use as an experiment. The results? Easy to set up, easy to edit, easy to add titles and alt text. I don’t like that the thumbnails open in a [...]
product Designing for Emotion, written by Aarron Walter, is another of the brief but valuable books from A Book Apart. If you’ve read other books from A Book Apart you know they are high quality work from knowledgeable writers. This one is no exception. With only 7 chapters and less than 100 pages to [...]
Themeefy looks great for instructors (and students who have to do a presentation). Read more about it at Digital Inspiration, where you can look at Amit’s sample about Steve Jobs. Here’s an example from the Themeefy site. It’s free. Sign up with a Twitter or Facebook login.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Are you aware of Digitwirl? A weekly program that provides tips on interesting technology and includes some how to help for getting started with each topic. There’s an email sign up for the weekly release. Here’s an example.
product HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World, written by Alexis Goldstein, Louis Lazaris and Estelle Weyl, is from Sitepoint (2011). This book takes on several topics that could fill an entire book individually, yet manages to serve each topic well. As you can tell from the title, the book talks about HTML5 and CSS3, [...]
Google, Yahoo and Bing announced schema.org yesterday. Many sites are generated from structured data, which is often stored in databases. When this data is formatted into HTML, it becomes very difficult to recover the original structured data. Many applications, especially search engines, can benefit greatly from direct access to this structured data. On-page markup enables [...]
There’s a new free app called Clear Captions. It captions phone calls. It works with a phone and an Internet-connected computer, but it can also be downloaded as an app on iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone. When I heard about it and checked out clearcaptions.com, I thought it was worth a look. If it’s as [...]
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