Seven HTML related working drafts published is reported on 456 Berea Street. The HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 draft was especially interesting to me.
Students may like CSS Border Radius. Insert a value for all corners or individual corners and grab the code. For those who don’t like typing.
Sitepoint is doing a series on jQuery [...]
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tim Berners-Lee on TED Talks in February 2010. The video is only 5 minutes long. Seems particularly appropriate the day after the article about Twitterscapes.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
ATMac tells about Accessing the iPad: Mouthsticks and Styluses with some tips for how a user with limited mobility can work the device. It’s useful to also read ATMac’s post Accessibility and the iPad: First Impressions.
In the category of “stuff I didn’t know you could do but it sounds really great and I want to [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Cleaner Code with CSS3 Selectors at 24 Ways gives 10 examples, with code, of some of the new techniques you will be able to use with CSS3 selectors. Now is your chance to learn all about n-th child with plentiful examples.
“Where’s my Googlebox!”–Adventures in Search for Silver Surfers is a report on some findings from [...]
Friday, December 18, 2009
We’re all presenters–in the classroom, at conferences, among your colleagues. Here are 9 Tips for Enriching Your Presentations with Social Media. One of the tips in the article is about the backchannel, a topic I’m interested in and have talked about here and here and from SXSWi and again here as well as at BlogHer. [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
Web accessibility is no longer an afterthought at CNET is a good summary of some of the accessibility issues in web design and would make a good reading assignment for a web dev class. The article interviews Yahoo! trainer Alan Brightman, who is quoted as saying,
There are about 60 million people in the U.S. who [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
Usability Issues that Impact Online Learning from Faculty Focus doesn’t mention specific tools that meet some of the standards suggested for good usability in online learning, but it does tell you some things to strive for:
Good usability for online learning materials means the site, content, and media are easy to find, use, and navigate. And [...]
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