Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
Accessible Data Tables has some updated info about tables at .net magazine.
CSS Grid Layout: What Has Changed? is from Rachel Andrew. These are changes since her post on the topic at 24 Ways and based on the latest W3C working draft.
Keep the Underline says Dennis Lembree and talks about when an underline is a UX necessity.
DOJ May Apply ADA Accessibility Guidelines to Websites explains what is under consideration in terms of expanding the ADA rules to apply to public websites in addition to the government websites it already requires.
Chris Mills wrote a terrific tutorial about Advanced cross-browser flexbox for Dev.Opera.
Deborah Edwards-Onoro used Storify to put together a summary of Ben Callahan’s Think Responsively talk from an Environments for Humans webinar.
The Ultimate Accessible HTML and CSS Checklist for Developers: part 1 is from access iQ. It may not be the ultimate list, but it is a new way of presenting the items in WCAG 2.0 in a reader friendly way.
At SitePoint, there’s an article about CSS Architectures: CSS Best Practices that has good code examples.
The hgroup element in HTML5 is kaput.
Here’s terrific short video called Find Your Next Growth Market with Nilofer Merchant. Sorry, I can’t find any code to embed it here, but it’s worth a listen and very short.
How to Use CSS3 Columns is a quick and easy tutorial.
Grandma Got STEM is a new blog where people can send in information about the older women in their lives who have been working for decades in STEM fields. Invisible no more!
This terrific new site is a step-by-step tutorial that will get you educated on CSS layout in an easy, visual style: Learn CSS Layout.
No more little boxes filled with software from Adobe Creative Suite. It’s a Creative Cloud or download only world out there, folks.
The Kickstarter project to raise $2million for a Veronica Mars movie was fully funded in less than one day. Completely amazing what the right project can do with Kickstarter. You can still get in on the action.
Yesterday Google announced it is retiring Google Reader, breaking my heart and the hearts of a lot of blog readers like myself who have a regular daily reading list. I’m going to be researching alternative RSS readers today and will have some for you by tomorrow today (see Google Reader: Oh, the Pain).
The Problem of CSS Form Elements is at Smashing Magazine.
Seven Things Still Missing from CSS at .net magazine.
Video from the recent W3Conf are available on YouTube.
The Google Glass Feature No One is Talking About. Is Google becoming Big Brother?
Lerio Designs has blog posts with weekly roundups of web design and development resources that is excellent and worth subscribing to.
Dig deep into CSS gradients. Good stuff and a new voice on gradients.
Great tutorial about the HTML 5 progress element over on HTML5 Doctor.
If your WordPress theme doesn’t have ARIA landmark roles built in already, Steve Faulkner tells you how to add them in about 20 minutes in Using WAI-ARIA Landmark Roles – 2013.