Here’s a new voice, Emil Stenstrom, with a CSS tutorial.Friendly Bit – Beginners guide to CSS and standards
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A Head First author tells all
Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory This is interesting coming on the heels of my review of a Head First book in the previous post. The material here describes the learning theory that the Head First books use.
Stock Photos, anyone?
Search 50 Stock Photography, Stock Photos, and Footage Vendors, as well as Royalty Free Clip Art, Illustrations, and Clipart Images Fotosearch is a stock photo portal I just learned about. It’s a search engine for over 50 stock photo places. If you don’t already have a favorite stock photo account, this might help you find one.
Best singers you never heard of
Everybody is doing a list of their favorite things for 2005. Not me, I decided to do a list of my favorite female singers that you never heard of. Great female vocalists on my list are…TA DA…
- Madi Sato, a jazz singer from Santa Fe
- Bernadette Seacrest, a Billie-Holiday-type stylist from Albuquerque
- Abi Tapia, a roots country songwriter from Austin
- Lee Ann Atherton, a roots rocker from Austin
- Kellye Gray, a jazz singer from Austin
Pamela Hart, a jazz and R&B singer from Austin
And just to be on topic, here’s the most interesting web design book of 2005, reviewed in April on these pages.
Good piece on semantic markup
Semantic Typography: Bridging the XHTML gap : Journal : Mark Boulton | Information design gives a concise and well illustrated description of semantic markup.
I myself wrote on a similar topic at the Wise Women site in the article The Early Bird Catches the CSS: Planning Structural HTML. My article doesn’t have illustrations, however, and Mark’s add a lot to help explain the concepts. Nice going, Mark.
Free templates
Open Web Design – Home This organization provides you an opportunity to share your designs with the world. There are over 1000 designs at this site. They say, “Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!”
Social Networking for the school age crowd
Facebook is a social networking outfit similar to LinkedIn, but is specifically for high school and college students. It’s in a startup phase, but growing fast and rapidly adding to the list of schools supported.