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75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology
- HTML Email Guide anandgraves.com
I have put together a matrix of (western) fonts showing which are installed with Mac and Windows operating systems, which are installed with various versions of Microsoft Office, and which are installed with Adobe Creative Suite.
- The Django Book djangobook.com
"My intent for weblogs in 1997 was to make the web as a whole more transparent, via a sort of "mesh network," where each weblog amplifies just those signals (or links) its author likes best. 1998-1999 was for me the Golden Age of Weblogs."
- Stats, stats, baby! « Flickr Blog blog.flickr.com
Flickr now has stats for pro users. Nice.
- 24 ways: CSS for Accessibility 24ways.org
A few new tips in here.
- Track Blog Reactions To Your Brands With Scout Labs techcrunch.com
Helps companies make sense of the mass of positive and negative things that are said about their brands in blogs, user generated videos, and images.
While it’s good to know that users of tools such as Tails and Operator will derive added value from your shiny semantics, it’s nice to be able to reuse that effort in your own code.
- Subdomains and subdirectories mattcutts.com
Google could return a search page with lots of results all from one domain. In the last few weeks we changed our algorithms to make that less likely to happen.
- iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme by ContentRobot iwphone.contentrobot.com
The iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.
- Airbag - Fail. airbagindustries.com
After six years big business still has no idea what to do with this blog thing.
- 'Quarterlife' Comes to MySpaceTV adweek.com
A day after each segment's initial airing, it also will be presented on Quarterlife.com, a social networking site that Zwick and Herskovitz are starting with an aim to connect young creative people to one another and to the resources they need.
- Link Value Factors | Wiep.net wiep.net
Opinions of 17 well respected, international SEO and Link Building professionals on nearly 40 factors that possibly influence the value of a link.
- 24 ways: Back To The Future of Print 24ways.org
8 tips and 4 main gotchas when creating print stylesheets in our more enlightened era.
- The Yahoo! Juku » Yahoo! User Interface Blog yuiblog.com
"Front end web development has traditionally been viewed as rather "lightweight"engineering. Around the world, companies assumed that anyone could write HTML [...]". Yahoo's front-end engineering training.
- Stanford Online Accessibility Program - Stanford University soap.stanford.edu
- Creating Accessible Forms | Stanford Online Accessibility Program soap.stanford.edu
There are a number of factors that contribute to the accessibility and usability of forms, including layout, labeling and grouping.
- 24 ways: Minification: A Christmas Diet 24ways.org
Some tools to trim the fat and speed up our sites.
- The Magical Minimalism of Microformats - Open - Code - New York Times Blog open.blogs.nytimes.com
Details/rant on BBC's technical infrastructure.
- al3x.net: A Dim Beacon al3x.net
Facebook doesn't exist to be good in the sense that Google wants (wanted?) to be [..] Your network of friends and the data you share amongst them happens to be a nutrient-rich bath in which advertisements can flourish and spawn.
- Voiceover 2 - a WebDev’s guide « AlastairC alastairc.ac
VoiceOver, the screen reader for Apple’s OS X, has undergone a major update. This article looks at the new functions, and what that means for people browsing websites.
What we can do to support IE6 users whilst taking full advantage of transparency for the majority of a site’s visitors.
- Wheel 2.0: Jason Huck’s Devblog » Google Analytics Integration with jQuery devblog.jasonhuck.com
A jQuery plugin to make embedding Google Analytics simpler for typical web sites.
- The Best SEO Tools techmagazine.ws
- TV is OFF and going ON line trendsspotting.com
77% of today’s online youth would rather live without television than live without the Internet.
- Home | Email Standards Project email-standards.org
Works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
- Digital Web Magazine - Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3 digital-web.com
This article walks through the steps necessary for hosting media files for your web site using Amazon S3.
- UI-patterns.com ui-patterns.com
User Interface Design pattern library.
- How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook -- Facebook -- InformationWeek informationweek.com
Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid.
"Campaign microsites may be a staple of the "old model," but they are by most accounts not facing extinction—although their role will probably be diminished from star to player in a cast of channels that also includes MySpace, YouTube and widgets."
Mostly obvious but always good to be reminded.
- Virtual Hosting Blog » Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies virtualhosting.com
A few tips from eye-tracking studies
A new domain, even for many of the world's largest brands, is not a particularly good idea.
Chris Heilmann's presentation and notes from @mediaAjax.
- Why I won't work on another campaign microsite - Dan Eastwell thoughtballoon.co.uk
or why I won't, until the money runs out...
- Email design and spam testing just got easy with Campaign Monitor campaignmonitor.com
Testing your design in all the different email clients out there has got to be the most frustrating and time consuming parts of sending email campaigns. Our design and spam testing tool changes all that.
- A List Apart: Articles: How to Size Text in CSS alistapart.com