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Web Design Goodness
A handy blog, ATMac (Assistive Technology for Mac OS X Users). Thanks, Roger. A good definition of web design: “Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices...
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Web Design Books: Share the Love
Here are the books on my To Read List which seems to be never-ending, but in a good way. “Beautiful Evidence” - Edward Tufte “Creativity for Graphic Designers” - Mark Oldach “Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type...
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Many Links
Derek offers some tips on how to shoot events. Jason presents an argument for using real people instead of personas. Here's a bunch of lists bookmarks that I've been collecting. So many links, so little time. Chris's Top 100...
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Learning and Happy Birthday Website
Back in the 80's, I picked up a great book, “The Three Boxes of Life” written by Richard Nelson Bolles (who also wrote “What Color Is My Parachute”). You have three boxes—learn, work, play. His notion was that you...
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Web Design and San Francisco
The results of the 2007 Web Design Survey from A List Apart are in. Jeffrey led me to a handy tool when testing for colorblindness, the Colorblind Web Page Filter. Just enter your test URL and choose from a...
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Conference and Web Design Books
I went to An Event Apart in San Francisco. Nicely organized and well paced. Quite a few Macs and iPhones. Steve must be pleased. The speakers were for the most part good. I enjoyed Jason Santa Maria. It was...
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Blahg'd
Ever since I read Jeffrey's Blahg, my back burner brain has been mulling it over. November 1st will be my eleventh year on the Web and I feel like my website's been on life support this year. I've been...
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Where are the Women
Another Top 100 links list, Share Your OPML. Just quickly read down the list, and the only question I have is where are the women? You know, I generally don't care for Flash websites. But Bullseye Creative makes it...
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Accessibility and PDFs
I'm wrangling over PDFs and accessiblity. I know that you're supposed to have an HTML alternative, but that's not always possible for large PDF files. You can always use Adobe's conversion tool for converting PDFs to text or HTML,...
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Early to Bed, Early to Rise…
One of my biggest problems I face is how to get up at 5:00 a.m. to exercise, shower, get ready for work, and be there by 6:30 a.m. I have to work nine-hour days, and so, being a morning...
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Re-Entry
Has the Web world passed me by while life had it's way with me? I think I can still hop back on. First, to brush up on CSS…I see that CSS 2.1 is almost there (except for support in...
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Early Bird
Just got up from a weekend spent camping in the backyard again. With summer already fading, the fall chill is in the air. And how nice to watch the moon come up through the screen in the roof of...
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Happy Feet
With my foot and leg on the mend, I'm actually walking…at a snail's pace, but walking nonetheless without the aid of a wheelchair, crutches, or cane. And just in time for the Fourth of July weekend. Good timing. Joe...
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Long Summer Days
Web design and summer, such a nice combo. At the bottom of this entry is a picture of my youngest grandson, RayRay, enjoying the water sprinkler while Grandma Shell soaks the foot on the patio. The 7 Habits of...
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Thankful Friday Ketchup
Finally, a year-long project completed at work, and I come up for air. Had to check the newsreader to see what I missed this week. And OMG, it's a thankful Friday. Bruce asks if standards-based menus help accessibility and...
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Photoshop and Nipples
Photoshop techniques: See photoshop technique for Giving to Hiram masthead Reverse engineering the shiny, how to create the Dashboard look Aqua button tutorial [Thanks, Dori] Don't Photoshop out your nipples. Please. What the hey is up with the banning...
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Friday My Day
Another lovely day in the Valley. I'm on modified work duty with my broken leg which means I work at work two days a week and work from home three days a week. Love the flexibility, love working in...
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QA Items
While organizing the QA of a new feature on the website at work, I ran across these two links: Better Practice Checklist: Testing Websites with Users IBM's Ease of Use: how to measure your success Nice refresher with good...
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Overload
Have been in a state of information and to-do list overload. I didn't really realize it until I read Recipe for Simplicity. My every minute is spoken for until the end of the evening when I just veg in...
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Local Conferences
In March, I got to go to Web Design World in San Francisco. I was surprised at the number of people that weren't local. It was a good session and I got to hear Molly, Dave, and Doug talk...
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Thankful Friday
…Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work with Screen Readers…
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Friday My Day
…Top 10 Usability Blunders of the Big Players…
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Cheesy Grin
…Good laugh: CSS Zen Garden, Geocities style [Thanks, Jeffrey]…
