Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
Anna Debenham has a very concise and clear post about using “rel” to establish relationships between people on her blog. It was a Valentine’s Day post, but the infomation is good any time of the year.
This fantastic post by Pamela Wilson on Copyblogger should be reproduced and used in every beginning web design class. It’s called The Essentials of Human Web Design.
NIcholas Zakas looks at the HTML5 and JavaScript that goes into Gmail’s attachment feature in Dissecting Gmail’s Email Attachments.
Sandy Wassmer asks, The End of Accessibility? in .net magazine.
Also at .net, Aaron Gustafson wrote Mastering Mobile Navigation.
Excellent tips from Trent Walton in When Making the Transition to Building Responsive Websites, the Hardest Part can be Getting Started.
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.
The current recommendation on longdesc. Things have changed in the screen reader world.
If you follow any women in tech on Twitter you are probably aware of the horror story told by Sarah Parmenter recently. It prompted several others to speak up as well. Here’s a place to start to find links to all their stories: Harassment of Women in Tech Never Ends.
The other day I mentioned a post at CSS Tricks about whether lists in nav elements were a good idea. Chris got a lot of comments and has a second post sharing his conclusions about the question: Wrapup of Navigation in Lists.
The Tech Gender Gap in 2013: Is It Changing? The article cites a few hopeful trends.
Screen-Less Mobile Computers: Talking Changes Everything. Can we talk? (Again, I’m reminded of the TV series Eureka.)
Domain Registrars: Who’s the Fairest in the Land? Spoiler alert – it isn’t Go Daddy. But I see the company I use in this list.
Sheryl Sandberg takes a blowtorch to gender stereotypes in the workplace. It isn’t 1951 and Jon Hamm isn’t your boss – but it feels like it.
Vine is huge after only about two days. I downloaded it while sitting in my living room and made a video of my only available moving objects – my feet. Are you already on the Vine bandwagon?
My #firstpost on Vine is really lame vine.co/v/bJBgwmteEZK
— Virginia DeBolt (@vdebolt) January 26, 2013
Speaking of apps, I wrote about an app called Swipp for BlogHer. I think it has the potential to be influential. Check it out: Swipp Your Way to Social Intelligence.
You have until Jan. 29 to get in on the fun at Simplequiz #7: Pinterest. How should a pin be marked up in HTML5?
Any Eureka fans out there? Check out this article: Siri Jokes Aside, Voice Control will Make Computing Better.
As Obama heads back to office, a battle rages over the tech that got him reelected. This is potentially a very important question regarding building on open source. The tech community should be discussing this issue everywhere.
At issue is the code created during the Obama for America (OFA) 2012 campaign: the digital architecture behind the campaign’s website, its system for collecting donations, its email operation, and its mobile app. When the campaign ended, these programmers wanted to put their work back into the coding community for other developers to study and improve upon. Politicians in the Democratic party felt otherwise, arguing that sharing the tech would give away a key advantage to the Republicans.