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Useful Links: CSS3 Gradients, Accessibility, Tantik talks, free images, HTML5 elements

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator is one of the ColorZilla tools. It’s online as an app. It creates a pure CSS gradient using a Photoshop-like interface and provides cross browser code. The other ColorZilla tools are downloadable and include a color picker, an eyedropper, Firebug and more. Disabilities Act may be expanded to Net and Beyond [...]

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Useful Links: eLearning in Haiti, Twitsper, Dijit

Monday, November 22, 2010

University of the People is moving into Haiti and it’s a big hit. Story from ReadWriteWeb. Twitsper is an android app that allows you to tweet only to a Twitter list.  I expect it to be popular–it’s definitely useful–and make its way to other app stores as well. Or maybe into Twitter itself as the [...]

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Useful Links: 20 things, HTML5, lessons learned, 7 sins

Friday, November 19, 2010

20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web is an interactive web app built in HTML5. It looks like a children’s book. And it’s slick. Great for a class reading assignment. Using HTML5′s New Semantic Tags Today. Terrific article by Emily Lewis at Script Junkie. Blogging to Support Policy Goals: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned. [...]

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Bright idea from bit.ly: link bundles

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The URL shortening service bit.ly announced Bit.ly Bundles on their blog yesterday. Now, instead of sending one link with a shortened URL, you can send a whole bundle of links. When you click the bundled link, it opens up in a special Bit.ly Bundles page where you get a rich media preview of every link [...]

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I’m loving paper.li

Friday, November 12, 2010

A while back I put together a Twitter list of the women in web education. Right now there are 45 women on the list. Here’s my original post explaining the list: Where are the Women in Web Education? When I started the list, I wasn’t thinking about paper.li, I was thinking about finding a group [...]

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Useful links: Form traps, Wired, find your content, web education slides, online tutoring

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Fashionable Web Forms: Traps and Tips has UX advice from a pro on how to make forms work better. Why Wired Loves the Ladies. That slide of the last 32 Wired covers tells the story with such impact no other comment is necessary. Find Websites that are Copying Your Content. Great tips for tools. Mozilla [...]

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Klout – what’s it to ya?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Klout.com, a service that has measured a person’s influence and reach on Twitter, just added Facebook to its Klout calculations. The alliance with Facebook was announced in Do You Have Facebook Klout? Here’s a bit of their explanation about how it will work. On Facebook, like Twitter, we assess how conversations and content generate interest [...]

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ARIA Roles 101

Thursday, October 14, 2010

See Also: ARIA States 101 As part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (ARIA), defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible. It is used to improve the accessibility of dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. [...]

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Useful links: student web conference, transparent borders, usability, app developers, getting started

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The 2011 Student Web Conference is in January and it’s free. Students need to attend this, instructors and web educators need to be supporting the event and speaking at it. This is a great thing! Hooray to Zac Gordon for getting this conference going. (And next year there will be women in the speakers list, [...]

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Useful links: PR, elections, #FF

Friday, September 10, 2010

Because some things are worth more than a box of cereal is a rant from The Bloggess. It points out a lot of what bloggers have to put up with these days. The other day I wrote a review of a web app called xtranormal. It seemed obvious enough that I was writing the review [...]

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