Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
Why browser zoom shouldn’t kill flexible layouts from zomigi talks about whether browser zoom solves all the problems solved by flexible and liquid layouts. Zoe contends that zoom doesn’t do all that. The fallacy of page zooming from All in the Head is another voice in the discussion. And two posts from early in the … Continue reading “Useful links: zoom”
Participating in the second annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit was easy and fascinating. I signed in to three sessions. These will mostly be available as poscasts at the Women Who Tech site, so I’m not going to attempt liveblogging. I’ll give you a few highlights that I found particularly worthy or fascinating or just plain … Continue reading “My experience at Women Who Tech”
Jeremy Keith (blurred), Tantek Celik (standing), Glenn Jones, Karsten Januszewski. Everyone is using microformats, even if we don’t know it. Keith showed us huffduffer, a site that creates bookmarks for audio information. It is a consumer of microformats. He talked about rel=”me” for pointing out where you exist on the web. Shows relationship of linked … Continue reading “SXSW: Microformats: A Quiet Revolution”
by Web Teacher product Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! (Amazon affiliate link) ★★★★★ Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong! by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank is from Sitepoint (2008). It’s a small book of little more than 100 pages. It’s mainly about various CSS display properties that create a table layout appearance. … Continue reading “Review: Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong!”
Wow, Albuquerque is turning into a tech scene. They still have the very cool Start Up display at the museum—worth a trip to town by itself. Full of hands on fun, a whiz bang multimedia conversation between a bunch of computers and lots of old computers, tubes, and hilarious photos of Bill Gates and Steve … Continue reading “Even more cool stuff to do in ABQ”
Tom Green’s article The Education of Geeks and Freaks at Digital Web Magazine is must reading for anyone teaching designing or coding topics. Even if you don’t agree with him, you need to read it. His main point is that the design track people and the coding track people need to talk to each other … Continue reading “Major Education Article at Digital Web Magazine”
In September of 2007, I reviewed a new site meant to help photographers sell their photos in An In-Depth Look at Photrade at BlogHer. The review was pretty critical. I had a lot of usability problems with the site. In the months since then, Photrade has been through tremendous changes in an effort to become … Continue reading “Photrade’s all new–a second look”