Links from 2007

"Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, "modularize" it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms."

A free, open-source functional testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It is pronounced water.

How do you go about choosing an accessible content management system (CMS)? What are the main criteria for success? And how to ensure ease of use for authors including screen reader users?

Maybe that's when you know how you've got a winner: when people use it like mad but can't fully explain the appeal of it to others. See also: weblogs, Flickr.

Collaborative test planning that’s just simple enough.

A web-based visual wiki, a mind-mapping tool, and a non-linear writing tool that allows you to track ideas and the relationships between them.

Sprockets are hierarchically created objects that can be progressively, logically defined and then rendered when needed. Sprockets play nice, coexisting with other code generators and template systems, and provide a great addition to MVC frameworks.

You get the reliability of Yahoo! UI, and the developer friendliess of jQuery. You also receive the benefits of an easily customizable A.P.I. which puts you in control of how you will work with the library.

Creating some kind of definitive documentation about my approach to designing for the Web with the typographic grid as my primary layout tool.

Negotiation is not debate.

a multi–layered javascript experiment

"This tutorial will show that, with the right thought, pop-up windows can be used without upsetting anyone - particularly the person browsing your site." Be good to see a jQuery version...

This, I think, is when it’s time to bring out Flash. Not for the whole app of course, but used in conjunction with HTML/CSS/JS.

ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.

For years the Adobe Photoshop team has been trying to get away from the traditional death march to a more agile development style. For its CS3 release, it made the jump, with the help of VP Dave Story.

It partly compensates for that by allowing the user to scale/zoom the entire page, including images (which quickly leads to massive horizontal scrolling because of its bad implementation).

The work on show at Non-Format's Make A Fuss exhibition came about after the design duo of Kjell Ekhorn and Jon Forss underwent a process of exploration into the themes of Pop Culture, fashion imagery and an on-going fascination with modular typography.

This presentation will help you see the value of web accessibility and why it makes sense for you, as a web developer, and why it is a must-have for your clients.

"[With eyetracking] we can see that a user may navigate the page of an interface that houses the info she wants," she said, "but if the text is poorly presented, or the navigation is cluttered, or there are too many superfluous images so she cannot easily

"In terms of your career, this means that you should be setting aside time for training and development — some of which is focused on making you better at your current job and some of which is focused on getting you towards the next step in your career

Here’s a catalog of career refactorings you can apply to help move yourself towards your own vision of what you want to be doing next.

How to Download FLV (Flash Video) from Flash Video sites

You can then quite easily subscribe to individual Tube lines and get updates via whatever means you deem appropriate as you would as a Twitter user.

The process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software.

JavaScript code to Detect available Fonts using JavaScript and CSS.

JavaScript library that facilitates handling Wiimote keycodes

This article shows some of the new functionality of the proposed form chapter of HTML5: Web Forms 2.

While Ask & Google use the title and meta description directly from Netflix, Yahoo! and MSN are pulling data from the Yahoo! directory and DMOZ (respectively).

Opera now includes a developer console that can be added into the browser with many new features. The developer console includes new tools including DOM inspector, JavaScript inspector, CSS editor and HTTP header inspector.

RoboBraille automates the translation of text documents into Braille and speech. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users.

swfIR gives you the ability to apply an assortment of visual effects to any or all images on your website.

Identifies the problematic parts of your message and makes recommendations for changes.

Short, simple bits of knowledge for better Web design, authoring, and use, on quality issues related to W3C technologies such as HTML, CSS, HTTP.

Here’s a detailed overview of the process we use for carrying out multiple assessments for projects like Better Connected, with some of the background about how we developed this process.

WhatWhat Status was designed to eliminate massive status reports that had to be completed weekly by developers, then condensed by project managers, and eventually delivered to senior management.

Products for project planning, system administration, usability testing, collaborative development, and web services.

PNGGauntlet is a .NET program that uses Ken Silverman's PNGOut to optimize PNG files.

Planix is a hosted application that enables project teams to consistently and accurately estimate the resources, scheduling and cost of their software development projects.

Hosted subversion with built-in deployment and Basecamp integration.

If you want to become involved in something worthwhile and whose purpose has been woefully mischaracterized, become a Web quality activist and lend some of that communication skill to this worthy social cause.

"My opinion is still that using % in the body and em for units is superior is it allows for text resizing in IE/win, is less browser specific (both methods are foiled by the typographical workings of IE5, but the Keyword Approach stumbles in some versions

To implement a successful content management system, we have to go beyond business process and technology and understand how the organization, as an organism, interacts with and uses its content.

On any given Web page, users will either: 1. click something that appears to take them closer to the fulfillment of their goal, 2. or click the Back button on their Web browser.

A gathering of open source tools, plugins, APIs, and code for use with RedDot CMS.