Links from 2006

Offers up to 19 additional work spaces to spread out your work.

Over 30 modern css-based techniques in a brief overview.

Possible present ideas...

This is the real story of our first CRAFT subscriber, Jessica Love.

...what I look for when I test, how I test for various viewing scenarios, what techniques/utilities I use for debugging and what email clients I use in my suite.

"An OpenID is simply a URL. My OpenID is simonwillison.net, the address of my weblog. I can use it to sign in to any site that supports OpenID, and because I’m the only person with control over my weblog’s homepage I’m the only person who can use th

...easily find photos on flickr that were released under the creative commons license.

Use this step-by-step process to learn more about your site's status in the Google index.

Grand Union's Christmas card. "lets you use images from Flickr to make your own customised wrapper paper".

It is easy to get caught up in the detail of the requirements and the CMS project, losing sight of the overall objectives and process.

Considering a foray into mobile web development? Following are four things you need to know before making the leap.

Javascript follow-up to Andy Budd's 24 ways article, "A Message To You, Rudy".

Most companies do a good job of providing incremental improvements to existing products and processes. What are those few who struggle with innovation doing wrong?

A Microformat Detection Extension for Firefox 2

Forms pose a series of usability and accessibility challenges, many of which are made more complex when you need to build a form to fit into a small space.

If we want to serve devices whose viewports range from 240 pixels to about 1680 pixels—and with resolution ranging from 72 to 150 pixels per inch—we need a new method.

Barbara Hadrill [...] is the bridesmaid so perturbed by our wrecking of the planet that instead of flying to Brisbane for her friend's wedding, she quit her job and set off by land and sea instead.

"Digital UK: Re-engineering the content architecture to communicate the UK’s move to digital television." Fredy's presentation for the 2nd European IA Summit, Berlin 2006.

"A single user IdP, or "Identity Provider" for the OpenID framework. It's a single PHP script with minimal dependancies."

A web-based WYSIWYM editor.

There is another kind of editor that is better suited than WYSIWYG for content-driven, client-edited sites - the WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor.

This technique, CSS production notes, places your page production notes in one convenient place within an XHTML document and uses nothing more than meaningful markup and CSS.

Festive Flash games from Nintendo.

"The study found that users preferred speedy page loads to a greater number of results per page and to ‘highly interactive ajax features’. Although users reported that they preferred more results per page, their expressed desires diverged from their a

CSS dropdowns.

...brings simplicity back to time tracking. Quick to set up and easy to use, it provides you with insights on how your organization is spending its time.

Project management doesn’t have to be complicated or time consuming, in fact I’m arguing that it’s better if it’s not.

Makes it easy to better understand how you spend your money and links you to a community of people dedicated to helping each other make better financial decisions.

A website created to help people share and discuss raw, vegan food recipes from around the world.

Uses a .htc. Not ideal.

While it would be great to have programmers who are also great at sales, graphic design, system administration, and cooking, it's unrealistic. Like teaching a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

A very clever way of using an object element to insert an external HTML document into a page. [instead of using iframe]

A test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.

A PHP script which takes care of merging files on the fly whilst also versioning the merged file automatically as the various component files change.

Dan describes problems with how "Microsofts' new alternative for hotmail, Live Mail" affects HTML emails.

Use this form to evaluate the functional accessibility of a single Web page.

"Makes it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content. A toolbar provides easy access to navigation, styling, and keyboard enhancement functionality. Developers can use the extension to check their structural markup from the brows

Good design is based on the C.R.A.P. principles where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity

"On the Web, vertical rhythm – the spacing and arrangement of text as the reader descends the page – is contributed to by three factors: font size, line height and margin or padding. All of these factors must calculated with care in order that the rhy

Info on Google's new Website Optimizer tool.

"An open-ended Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)." There goes Christmas.

Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for standards-aware designers and developers and the companies seeking to hire them.

"I suspect Second Life is largely a "Try Me" virus, where reports of a strange and wonderful new thing draw the masses to log in and try it, but whose ability to retain anything but a fraction of those users is limited."

The most comprehensive API collection on the web.

UI expert Robert Hoekman Jr shows you how to educate your visitors about the features of contemporary sites and web apps through instructive design.

The idea is that the mobile web will become the dominant access method in many countries of the world, with devices that become more hybrid and networks that become more powerful - everywhere in the next decade to come.

"If my Cingular cell phone sends me a MySpace alert and I'm not there to get it, do I exist? But email, IMs, social networking, and blogs are nothing compared to the thing that may finally cause time as we know it to cease. I'm talking, of course, about T