Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The new semantic elements in HTML5 hold accessibility promise. It’s merely potential for improvement at the current time, because the semantic elements introduced in HTML5 are not yet universally recognized by browsers and assistive technology devices. Here are some of the the new elements. header: header can be used for a page element, a section, [...]
Monday, December 13, 2010
Reading an excellent article at Accessible Web Design called It’s still important to talk about HTML 4 got me thinking. It was talking about beginners finding out-of-date information on the web and how we need to continue to promote best practices with current information. One point made in the article: It’s still important to talk [...]
Friday, September 3, 2010
IIT Video Lectures Available for All on YouTube. “The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and IITs, the premier engineering colleges of India, have earlier joined hands to produce the world’s largest repository of technical video lectures and web-based courses geared towards science and engineering students.” I have not looked at any of these video lectures, [...]
InterACT with Web Standards: a Holistic Approach to Web Design is available today. This announcement is a BIG DEAL. This book puts everything you need to teach a class in web design or development with web standards into your hands. The book is easy to use in connection with InterACT’s 17 courses in 6 learning [...]
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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 [...]
It’s wise to test your site as you’re building it. Check your pages for accessibility, for validity, for appearance and function as you go along. Don’t wait until you’re finished to think about things like valid code and accessibility. Even when you do those things as a normal part of your process, you still need [...]
The WaSP Interact Curriculum group of volunteer workers are working on a book, to be published by New Riders. Among the many folks working on this book are Chris Mills, from Opera, and myself. Chris has put a few chapters up on the publishers FTP site where we all turn in our chapters. I’ve been [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
It’s an experiment to see if people will pay a couple of dollars to get a printable compilation of the material they could get on a blog free. I’m trying out the idea with two new e-books from First 50 Words. That blog consists of a daily writing prompt and a response to the prompt [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
product A review by Web Teacher of The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever (rating: 4 stars) The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever by Cliff Atkinson is from New Riders (2010). Cliff Atkinson is telling stories. He takes real people, [...]
Saturday, December 6, 2008
With the upcoming release of IE8, which will support CSS display:table and other table related display properties, I’m expecting changes in the way web pages are laid out. I just finished an intensive experience with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and the built-in CSS layouts that come prepackaged with the product. Naturally, my mind veered in the [...]
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