Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Great resources for each of the 10 Advanced CSS Techniques (You Wish You Knew More About) are listed in the slide deck that Emily Lewis and Jason Nakai used in a talk in a recent Webuquerque presentation. Work with each sites listed in their resources and you will become a complete expert. Keep an eye [...]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
If you have Dreamweaver 5.5 and are wanting to use the new features for using Media Queries included, here are some resources to get to going. What’s New in Dreamweaver How Media Queries Can Make Designing for Mobile Devices Easier Building Mobile Pages with Dreamweaver CS5.5 Introduction to Media Queries, Pt. 1 Introduction to Media [...]
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Manymoon vs. Basecamp. The Throwdown! at Social Media Marketing Management compares the features of Manymoon, Basecamp and TeamworkPM. If you’re looking for educational apps for kids from K to middle school, check out Mind Leap. They recommend apps they consider educational and engaging. Study of Undergrad Students and IT. A report from EduCause that includes [...]
Essential Considerations for Crafting Quality Media Queries from zomigi. Anytime Zoe takes the time to write about CSS, it’s worth reading and this article is particularly timely. The Next 6 Billion. I’m already seeing references to “the next 6 billion” as a phrase that everyone seems to understand and that carries a lot of background [...]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Before and After Demonstration at the W3C site shows a site before and after WCAG 2.0 principles were applied to it. It’s all annotated so you can see what was done to make the site accessible. Great tool for educators. Speaking of the W3C, there is now a new community group forming – open 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.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Cameron Moll made a set of whiteboard magnets of HTML5 tags for his own family. He’s released the Illustrator file for you to do the same. Great idea for people teaching HTML5. HTML5 Whiteboard Magnets. JAWS, IE and Headings in HTML5. Must reading for accessibility information about how JAWS interprets heading structure, particularly in IE. [...]
Friday, September 30, 2011
Why Facebook’s New Open Graph Makes us all part of the Web Underclass by Adrian Short is a powerful opinion piece and well worth reading. The Semantic Social Web talks about how Facebook’s Open Graph is going to change things in a big way – the semantic web is involved. Content Prototyping in Responsive Web [...]
Monday, September 26, 2011
Two big change announcements from Facebook recently. There are so many blog posts explaining it all, I thought a resource list post was in order. Forget Coffee Spoons: I Can Now Measure Out My Life With Facebook Updates Facebook Makes Several Changes Hands On With The New Facebook Timeline Facebook’s New Features Get Animated Facebook’s Open Graph [...]
Friday, September 23, 2011
Proposed Regulations Address Airline Websites and Kiosks. There’s a long wait time before any proposed regs would take effect, but eventually they would be required to be accessible. Quick Tips: A Crash Course in CSS Media Queries at net tuts. How Do Browsers Render the Different CSS Border Style Values? Good screen shots and demo code [...]
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