Links from 2006

What’s the best tools out there for keeping track of your online buzz?

Google maps for mobiles

One kind of a comments (downlevel-hidden) is valid and the other (downlevel-revealed) is not. I tried to adapt those invalid comments the way that they would be valid.

The layout I describe here will have a fixed header at the top of the page, a scrolling content area in the middle, and a fixed footer at the bottom of the page.

Safari also suffers from [FOUC]

Seven new fonts that will be part of the new Windows O/S, codenamed Longhorn.

Quick fonts on t'web roundup.

Using jQuery’s plugin architecture, a number of smart people have taken the built-in effects one step further, creating some very pleasing modules for image enhancement.

Current user agents provide very poor access to title text information, and what access they do provide is typically inaccessible for people with disabilities.

Free music for download, including tracks from Cursor Miner and Si Begg

"Open Source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP". YACMS.

WinTabber can add tabs to many windows. A tabbed browser ,tabbed putty , tabbed terminal or tabbed shell, tabbed anything.

In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors.

Make a list. Tested typefaces that are rock-solid reliable for print, web, or both.

For years, compact fluorescent bulbs have promised dramatic energy savings--yet they remain a mere curiosity. That's about to change.

How are microformats faring a year or so after their coming-out party?

You may want your website to display in a specific way, but your users may want it another way. Enforcing anything on a user is bad for usability and therefore detrimental to the success of the website.

Elastic css zen garden example.

In their eagerness to be good Web citizens, people sometimes use semantic markup when they shouldn’t. Most commonly, this happens with bold and italics.

Generally, it means to use WordPress as a more conventional CMS, for less blog-ish content and presentation style. We’re looking at portfolio sites, news and magazine sites, article libraries, gallery sites, photologs, e-commerce sites, and many more.

Most browsers do not allow for the Flash plugin to be turned on and off. Instead, you're asked to delete the plugin. jTFlashManager gives you the capability to turn Flash on and off for all of your browsers.

Old school. Still has some relevance.

A large list of the factors that can influence a web document's rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase

A quick look at what microformats are and aren’t, then we’ll look at some very significant organizations already using them. Then we’ll take a look at just how easy it is to use them.

"The brand new jQuery 1.0". Hurrah!

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The most accessible, user-friendly way to receive input that a user incontravertibly knows is to ask the user to type their response into a free-text field, rather than require them to select it.

"Although Internet Explorer recognises the q element, it doesn't render the quotations marks around the quoted text. A CSS solution isn't possible, as Internet Explorer doesn't support the :before and :after pseudo-elements, so this article suggests a scr

"Techniques you can implement to achieve advanced accessibility, beyond the guidelines." Nothing radical

In my previous post I related my experience with implementing markup-only solutions to the task of incorporating multimedia into web sites, and later asserted a low opinion of a popular tool used for publishing SWF files.

Independent contractor filter: what is the best way to simultaneously raise my rates and not lose the business?

I’ve just spotted Adobe as a “user” on del.icio.us. It’s interesting to see that organisations like this are using del.icio.us as an online marketing channel to increase brand awareness, page rank and general online visibility.

What strange new behaviour do we have to look out for in IE7? Are there things that work as expected in IE6 that don’t in IE7?

Thank the lord!

A torrent search engine that can search all the major torrent sites and display the search results onto a single page for easy viewing.

Check all your JavaScript source code for common mistakes without actually running the script or opening the web page.