Archive for May, 2007

29 May

Some links for light reading (30/5/07)

Grade Your Website: 31 Free Online Tests
Evangelizing Outside the Box: Web Standards and Large Companies
How to Evaluate Your Website in 30 Seconds
Who Needs Headlines?
Web Design 101: Backgrounds
Web developers have the power
Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design
User Style Sheets Come of Age
Hacking Firefox: The secrets of about:config
Thumbstrips for Firefox
7 Ways to Send HUGE […]

23 May

Canberra CSS and Accessibility workshop over

Our Canberra CSS & Accessibility workshop was wrapped up this week. Some feedback from participants:
Very comprehensive. Can’t wait to put it into practice
Tags: css, accessibility, workshop

22 May

Some links for light reading (22/5/07)

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - Working Draft 17 May 2007
Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents
Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents
ESWAT web project framework
Formal weirdness
Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration
Measuring the Success Of a Classification System
How Visual Design Can Impact your Bottom Line
Stand and Deliver
Managing Style and State
Live by the Digg, Die […]

17 May

FullCodePress - website in a day competition is now open

Webstock and WIPA are extremely pleased to announce the launch of FullCodePress, a new and exciting series of web events.
The concept is simple: national teams compete against each other to build a website in 24 hrs, putting national pride and web prowess to the test. And the real winners of the competitions? The not-for-profit organisation […]

17 May

Sydney CSS and Accessibility workshop over

Our Sydney CSS & Accessibility workshop wrapped up on Tuesday. Some feedback from Sydney participants:
Really enjoyable, engaging presentation
All very useful - especially styling forms and creating dynamic layouts.
Our next workshop is in Canberra on Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 May.
Tags: css, accessibility, workshop

14 May

Tips From Top Web Designers

Smashing Magazines’ 35 Designers x 5 Questions takes an amazing behind-the-scenes look at answering the most common issues and decisions facing web designers.
The five questions were:

1 aspect of design you give the highest priority to.
1 most useful CSS-technique you use very often.
1 font you use in your projects very often.
1 design-related book you highly […]

09 May

Save Images As High Quality With Version Numbers

When working on designing a blog or website, I create many of the graphic images and logos from scratch, often using PaintShop Pro. As I work, I frequently save the original images as high quality and resolution PaintShop Pro files by version numbers for those “just in case” or back tracking needs.
For example, while working […]

05 May

World Usability Day Announces 2007 Healthcare Focus

Theo Mandel, Ph.D. has been named to the healthcare advisory committee for World Usability Day 2007. Mandel will present at the kickoff event at the UPA Conference in Austin, Texas on June 13. Here is the initial press release for World Usability Day 2007.

World Usability Day Announces 2007 Healthcare Focus
Press Release

Third Annual Global Event To […]

05 May

Let?s Hear from the Disabled

If you are disabled in any way which makes reading blogs and surfing the web a challenge, trying to work with what’s available or using special equipment, please let us how you access this blog and how you blog.
A lot of presumptions are made about what works and doesn’t work for accessibility standards and usability […]

02 May

Rant Over Excuses for Not Being a Web Professional

I’ve long wanted to rant about how anyone today seems to be able to pass themselves off as an expert, especially when it comes to web design and development. Oh, I could easily build up some steam.
Today, I don’t have to rant. Roger Johansson of 456 Berea Street lets go in “Lame Excuses for Not […]