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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
I was reading Validating WAI-ARIA in HTML and XHTML. Since Roger has commenting turned off on his site now, I thought I’d write up a quick post with some thoughts on this. For those who don’t know, ARIA is a type of accessibility for Ajax apps (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). And WAI stands for "Web [...]
Tags: accessibility, wai aria
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Where I Get My News
Friday, January 16th, 2009
This morning it occurred to me that I haven’t written a post about my RSS feeds. I’ve been meaning to for about a year now, but for whatever reason it hasn’t happened until now. I rely on my feed reader for a lot of inspiration so I feel like I should share that and maybe [...]
Tags: rss
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Centering an Image
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
<div align=”center”> is deprecated. It’s been deprecated for a long time, but it keeps creeping up for things like center aligning an image. Another popular way to do this is to wrap an extra div around the image and set the text alignment to center. This creates (as you might know, I hate), an added [...]
Tags: CSS, xhtml
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This Week in Links 12/2
Monday, December 8th, 2008
CSS Deployment 101 Reinhold Weber talks about how to compress a CSS file before you push it to the server. this will shave off some load time by reducing everything to one line and removing much of the white space. It also allows you to modularize your CSS without it effecting HTTP requests, because this [...]
Tags: conference, CSS, jquery
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Header and Footer in the Semantic Web
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
A couple years ago I read through Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS and it really made me think about semantic naming conventions I had otherwise taken for granted. By now, most of us (at least people reading this blog) practice using semantic markup and meaningful class & ID names. But can we do it better? Probably. [...]
Tags: andy clarke, CSS, semantics, xhtml
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This Week in Links 11/5
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Good Practice in Pagination Smashing put out a good article on a topic that I think gets overlooked a lot when dealing with user interface. A lot of times it’s taken for granted, but pagination is an important page of the UI. Freshbooks Freshbooks is a service for the freelancer out there. It’s a fast [...]
Tags: billing, fireworks, freelancing, pagination, ui
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This Week in Links 10/27
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Better CSS Font Stacks A good article on how to jazz up your stacks to try and take advantage of users who have more fonts installed. I’m all for this, and as long as it’s done carefully, can get a nice version of progressive enhancement. 5 Terrible SEO Ideas Richard Bradshaw goes over some trendy [...]
Tags: CSS, finances, font, javascript, jquery, seo, twitter
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Clickable Labels
Monday, October 20th, 2008
In form design, there are many things you can do to improve usability, many of which have to do with label placement. I won’t go into the depths of it, but Chris from CSS-Tricks.com wrote a good article about placement, not too long ago. Read Chris’s article here Why read this? This reason I’m sitting [...]
Tags: CSS, form, ui, xhtml
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This Week in Links 10/15
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
One Click, The Importance of UI Many times my link lists back up a few weeks and I have to revisit an article to really remember what it was about. When I did that to this one, I moved it up to the top of the list. It’s a very interesting article on user interface [...]
Tags: analytics, design, jquery, ui
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