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The more engaged users are, the more features an application can sustain. But most users have low commitment -- especially to websites, which must focus on simplicity, rather than features.
- Niqui Merret: Flash and Accessibility niquimerret.com
a short list of issues and bugs that I have come across when working towards accessible Flash sites. These are all focused on the Flash Player in the Browser.
- Blueprint: A CSS Framework bjorkoy.com
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
- Eloquent JavaScript eloquentjavascript.net
A comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript programming language.
- Responsibility for accessible content » AlastairC alastairc.ac
A simple rule for good web sites: content is golden. In an accessibility context, structured content is golden. It a core responsibility of the site owner to ensure this is followed (not just the developer).
- Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility googleblog.blogspot.com
- A List Apart: Articles: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing alistapart.com
"Content is the heart of a brilliant user experience. From the body content to the alt text to the footer, the words that shape the page lie at the very center of an engaging visit." Amen.
- Dust-Me Selectors sitepoint.com
Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors.
Now that I have an Intel-based Mac with Parallels and Boot Camp for running Windows, I have found the perfect screen reader testing system.
- ClickTale Blog » Unfolding the Fold blog.clicktale.com
"In this post, we will demonstrate with charts and real data several behavioral patterns related to scrolling." No such thing as the fold - useful background for this POV.
- if:book: CommentPress 1.0 futureofthebook.org
A free, open source theme for the WordPress blog engine designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text.
- CSS Specificity Calculator rebelinblue.com
Paste your CSS into the field below, the specificity of your selectors will be calculated for you.
- CSS Redundancy Checker services.immike.net
Use this tool to find CSS selectors that aren't used by any of your HTML files and may be redundant.
- Main Page | Tumblepedia tumblepedia.net
The one-stop resource for tumblelog information, setup, modifacation, themes, or anything else.
- Instant Django instantdjango.com
Download the self-extracting executable, double-click, and place the resulting 'django' folder in a convenient location. You can even carry it around with you on a USB thumb drive.
- YSlow for Firebug developer.yahoo.com
"...analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool." Hurrah, been waiting for this since @media.
- CMS suggestions for a restaurant's web site | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
"I'm designing a small site for a restaurant, and all my client will really need to do is replace the content on existing pages (menus, reviews, news/events) rather than adding and archiving lots of content. My dream solution would also have a pretty simp
Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.
- YouTube - New Custom Player youtube.com
Name and design your player, then fill it with videos from your videos or playlists. Once you've generated the embed code and saved the player, you can copy and paste the code to your website or blog.
- russell davies: music futures russelldavies.typepad.com
That seems like a future for the music industry, doesn't seem a bad future. Just not a lot of role in it for large record companies.
- gelato cms - di molti sapori gelatocms.com
gelato is a tumblelog CMS built on AJAX, PHP and MySQL.
- lori (Life-of-request info) :: Firefox Add-ons addons.mozilla.org
'lori' can tell you how long it takes to load a page. Useful for web developers who are working on profiling, optimizing a web site.
- Return of the HTTP overhead delay - this time without a server side component - Wait till I come! wait-till-i.com
Following my post yesterday about delaying the loading of avatar images to cut down on HTTP requests I was wondering if there is a way to do this without having to resort to a server side solution.
- WordPress Web 2.0 Guide | Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er howtospoter.com
- NoFunc · Nomadic Functions · Javascript nofunc.com
Nomadic functions are small, optimized, and fairly specific. An example may be anything from a simple Drag & Drag function, to a AJAX Star Rating, or a Text Scroller. They are like widgets… but even smaller.
- The Learn List thelearnlist.com
A super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and book links from all over the web.
- HTML elements index – Jens Meiert meiert.com
- css-redundancy-checker - Google Code code.google.com
A simple script that, given a CSS stylesheet and either a .txt file listing URLs of HTML files, or a directory of HTML files, will iterate over them all and list the CSS statements in the stylesheet which are never called in the HTML."
Here are some of the general and sobering situations I’m running across the deeper I go into under-represented countries when it comes to educational opportunities and resources.
- test everything — 100+ tools in one! tester.jonasjohn.de
CSS and HTML validators, SEO tools, Social services, Web proxies, Network tools, Text tools, Image tools (works only with Image URLs)
- Pingdom Tools tools.pingdom.com
Loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars.
- Adactio: Journal - Natural language hCard adactio.com
Places where microformats can be insterspersed in the flow of natural English sentences.
This page collects all my published work related to information architecture and user experience.
- Five simple steps to better typography : Journal : Mark Boulton markboulton.co.uk
"The kind of typography I'm talking about is not your typical "What font should I use" typography but rather your "knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash" typography."
- blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in blog.pmarca.com
An overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched.
- IE NetRenderer - Browser Compatibility Check - ipinfo.info
IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany.