Links from 2007

Could be dead handy, this.

Doesn't seem to be giving particularly useful results right now. Oh, and it emails the person you're looking for as well, without warning you.

The very existence of the new, updated book hints that usability guidelines evolve over time. In one of the first chapters, Nielsen makes this explicit by revisiting earlier web usability issues to see how much they've improved in seven years. Each

Microsoft had its hand forced this week into unveiling just a little of its arsenal in the war to win the browser battle on the mobile phone.

Web 2.0 applications often have accessibility and usability problems because of the limitations of (X)HTML. The W3C’s standards draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) addresses those limitations.

If you do like rants and have an interest in creating websites that work for as many people as possible, you might enjoy this.

"Different ways to clear floats without any extra mark-up." Good reminder.

Surely if you are part of implementing a website or even maintain your own blog, good practice typography should be a part of it?

Nothing new but that's not a criticism; good to have all this in one place!

A gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages - even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled.

Comments lead into an interesting-ish discussion about scaling problems with RoR.

In order to support 95% of your visitors, you need to design for a maximum size of 776x424px.

This tutorial is an explanation of the techniques involved in creating a fluid flash movies that adapt to browser resolution.

Make pages of feeds

"If the world falls apart then there is no market. And if a much greener substitute is brought out by a competitor, there is a good chance you will lose a lot of business too. Not to mention the risk if Greenpeace attacks you. Many companies have accepted

Whizzy modular office furniture.

Every day at Friends of the Earth Scotland we receive calls asking us about environmentally friendly products: whether it is really worth recycling and how to go about greening the office. Our Online Audit is designed to answer these questions.

Allows you to easily add “date picker” calendars to you HTML forms. These calendars make it much quicker, easier and less error prone for people to input certain types of dates.

Handy.

An offshore software development company based in Eastern Europe.

mobibot's main functionality is to capture URLs posted on the channel. The URLs are automatically gathered into a publishable RSS feed.

This article will first introduce persistent UI pitfalls of the 1990s, then outline the benefits of Web standards-based Web site development.

An open source, freely available talking browser extension for the Firefox web browser. Think of it as a screen reader that is designed especially for Firefox.

I'm not 100% sure exactly what this is. I suspect I won't agree with it.

Don't particularly like the methods but always interesting to see what other people do...

To avoid being painted with the same brush as the bad guys, there are a few pitfalls to avoid when it comes to maintaining your most precious treasure, your list of opted-in addresses.

It's a basic example of how helpful a little JavaScript and CSS can be in a form. Instead of the input hints always showing and potentionally cluttering a very simple form, only the hint for the currently focused input will show.

Despite often being deprioritised (or forgotten about altogether) by web developers, the lowly favicon (a contraction of favourite icon) is becoming an increasingly important aspect of brand identity on the web.

At last.fm, all the developers join an irc channel which we use for communications, sharing links, bugs etc.. and into which various system messages are automatically sent via irccat.

An unofficial free X-Chat (UNIX IRC client) build for Windows

Last Monday I had the opportunity to visit the Test Partners, after an invite by Steve Green, to attend an afternoon of screen reader demonstration. I’m exceptionally glad I went

This page is a demonstration of the jQuery SIFR plugin, written by Gilles van den Hoven after seeing Mike's version which he made some time ago. Since there was a need for such a plugin on the jQuery list i thought why not make one

"YouTube offers open access to key parts of the YouTube video repository and user community, via an open API interface and RSS feeds. Using our APIs, you can easily integrate online videos from YouTube's rapidly growing repository of videos into your appl

All you have to do is put the url of the YouTube video in the input box below, and submit! It will return a link in the FLV format, remember to rename the file to .FLV.

Keeping you up to date with the latest on mashups and the new Web 2.0 APIs

Here’s how to get your blog twittering.

Absolutely insane.

Check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more

Flex Templating provides rich client side website templating using MVC (Model-View-Controller). FXT solves a host of problems for using Flex and Flash Player for website development.

There are a number of methods available for getting information about a Macromedia Flash movie picked up by popular search engines such as Google.