Links from 2006

A project to create a green wiki website that encourages discussion and the generation of tips that benefit you and the planet

[this is good]

A flexible, semantically correct, and dare I say, accessible template to which such features could be readily applied.

We recently needed to add an email field to something we’re working on. And to make sure we didn’t forget about it we made it ridiculous. Now it works, but we can also tell it’s not finished. And we can have a laugh about it.

"There should be an alternative to one-size-fits-all RSS feeds for busy sites. Too many high-volume sites assume everyone wants to read every post. That’s wishful thinking. Some readers may want 5+ posts a day from your site, but what about moderate fan

"This article is meant to offer a solution to my earlier complaints by offering a brief explanation of the process steps—already familiar to information architects and the teams that employ them—which lead to effective scoping and wireframes, along wi

From April 2007, draft legislation will strip away the “unfair competitive [tax] advantage” for hundreds of thousands of contractors who today use managed service or composite companies. Unlike limited company owners, these workers are “not in busin

Greetings messages made from buildings in Google Maps.

Make your own microformat icons and add them to the wiki with Wolfgang's excellent Icon DevKit. Contains both Photoshop and Illustrator vector content.

"A free Firefox plug-in, Sxipper saves you time by keeping track of all of your user IDs, passwords, and personal data." OpenID ready.

Read the comments for this article - button is best avoided.

The mouse will scurry to the treat (they like tunnels) and fall into the trap.

A scheme that rewards smaller and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that set up Payroll Giving with grants of up to £500.

The new Disability Equality Duty (DED) places a legal obligation on public bodies to consider the needs of the disabled when planning services.

Generate large volumes of random, custom data for use in testing software

"A JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate the Firebug console in browsers that are not named "Firefox"."

Our aim is to re-vitalise local communities by offering an affinity scheme to customers using local shops and services.

Now you can install IE7 on your main machine for development, and get all the advantages of IE7, like the RSS platform, native XMLHTTP stack, and improved security, while still running IE6 simultaneously in the VPC on the same computer.

A Flickr forum thread states that the Red Passion user (the one referenced in our post, representing a marketing campaign for a beverages company) has now been terminated.

eboy's FooBar Poster. Spot the logos.

How to add a ‘Crush’ option to the context (right-click) menu in Windows Explorer for quicker [PNG] crushing.

"Buttons to help your visitors collect and promote your content" Useful tool or annoying fluff?

We've all got blogs and vlogs and shared photos and bookmarks and all that jive, so if you fancy stalking any of us this should be an amazing resource.

There was a large amount of interest in last month’s Web Application Form Design article, so I decided to provide some additional details.

Evaluating label placement in forms with eyetracking.

Collaborate online with colleagues, customers, and partners in real time, between either individuals or large groups

A lightweight PHP application that allows you to thumbnail images and view them in a web browser.

1. How is FeedBurner impacting on the way we understand media? 2. What kind of information about their readers do media and advertisers want? 3. RSS and television 4. How can RSS be developed?

Broken Windows Theory and Your Web Site says visiting a site with broken links, misleading navigation, or missing images is like visiting a neighborhood where “you get the feeling that no one cares.”

It turns out that most of web page performance is affected by front-end engineering, that is, the user interface design and development.

Designed to satisfy the curiosity of webmasters, surfers and web marketing professionals seeking a better metric to quickly assess a site/page's relative importance and visibility.

The problem occurs when you use Microsoft’s proprietary CSS expressions. Any declarations that contain an expression will be applied when printing.

"One of those things that you have to keep educating clients about: writing good and informative link phrases." About 5 or 6 times a day, normally.

Not a full fledged comparison of both products, but I thought it might be of interest for other people as I came out with some interesting differences that might help someone else make their mind about them.

A collaborative tool for developers using Subversion.

The ultimate tool for Windows Explorer or: what Microsoft forgot to implement in the explorer.

"Some people call it a 'TiVo for the internet' or a 'Firefox for videos'." Both of which are kind of dumb things to say. Looks good, though.

A jQuery plugin for embedding Flash movies.

A block quote [...] with speech marks at the front and termination of the text but without the nastiness of inline images.

A simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks

It's no longer enough for a restaurant to flag up its organic credentials. Now chefs are trying to make sure that every part of their operation is eco-friendly - even if that means employing worms to help with the rubbish.

How do creative designers learn to be artistic yet functional?

Using list-item to display images in print stylesheets.

Changes the cursor to indicate the target of a link.