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- Server Switcher | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation addons.mozilla.org
Allows you to easily switch between sites on your development and live servers.
How useful accessibility pages provided on a selection of UK Web sites were to users - in particular older people without significant impairments, but who may soon benefit from accessibility information.
- About This Site Firefox Extension v. 1.0 by Gina Trapani ginatrapani.org
One-click access to various services that provide information about the web site you are viewing.
- Technology For Marketing 2007 - TFM Awards t-f-m.co.uk
Technology For Marketing Awards
"For many sites that reference dozens of external objects, the majority of the page load time is spent in separate HTTP requests for images, javascript, and stylesheets. AJAX probably could help, but speeding up or eliminating these separate HTTP requests
- Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms | mono larsholst.info
Ignoring <abbr> in favor of <acronym> is wrong for two reasons.
- SEOmoz Blog | Long List of Link Searches seomoz.org
"I've picked one lucky website [...] and one of their primary keyword phrases "snowboard equipment" [...] to illustrate how you should perform searches that will result in high quality link acquisition targets."
- Caution! Access keys broken in Firefox 2.0 on the PC - Web Content Management Software by Hannon Hill hannonhill.com
"Firefox 2.0 doesn't actually break access keys, as was originally thought. Rather, the Firefox developers [...] decided to change access keys from Alt plus the number/letter to Alt plus Shift plus the number/letter." Gee, thanks.
This article highlights and answers some of the most frequently asked questions about HTML. HTML is the foundation of the Web, and both developers and designers need to understand it.
- Working XML: Serve friendlier RSS and Atom feeds www-128.ibm.com
"A technique to help visitors to your site read and understand the RSS and Atom feeds."
- Getting Real gettingreal.37signals.com
Useful tips from PG.
- Useful tips for writing efficient CSS | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"Jonathan Snook has posted a few great CSS coding tips in Top CSS Tips. Several of them come down to personal preferences, and it seems my preferences differ a bit from Jonathan’s in some cases". Mine too.
- Top CSS Tips - Snook.ca snook.ca
Funny. I do almost the complete opposite for every point. "I thought I'd share some of my habits when it comes to doing CSS work and let me warn you, some of what I have to say is probably a little controversial."
- Blogger - Can I get in please? - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
How Blogger blocks users from getting past the front door when the browser is JavaScript-capable but is sitting behind script blocking firewalls - and how it’s not alone in making this mistake.
I've attempted to lay the foundation for every piece of website data available to marketers, researchers and the curious.
- Continuing Intermittent Incoherency » The Virtual Life: IE At Arms Length alex.dojotoolkit.org
"There are things floating around that purport to let you run IE 5.5 alongside IE 6.0, etc. The fact of the matter is, though, that these aren’t what your users are running. IE isn’t built like Mozilla or any other browser. It really is down into the
- Video Presentation: Douglas Crockford on the “Theory of the DOM” - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
Each are half an hour long, and - having been in the training myself - I must say they taught me more about JavaScript and the DOM than a lot of books and hours of researching why something just didn’t work.
- Edgework: Tom Coates at Like It Matters brianoberkirch.com
We talk about how to design for a distributed Web, how individual sharing leads to the creation of social and business value, and also a bit about Yahoo’s Hackday and how they are trying to put social software, open APIs and microformats to work.
- Simon Willison: Graphing requests with Tamper Data simon.incutio.com
"It shows every component of the page - JavaScript, CSS, images - and when each component started and finished loading. You can use it to get an idea for how long it took between the HTML starting to load and the browser beginning to pull in the CSS, then
- Nikita the Spider * Bulk/Batch HTML Validation, Link Checking and More nikitathespider.com
Bulk (or batch) (X)HTML validation and link checking are at the core of what Nikita does, but there's more to her than that.
- Digital Web Magazine - Building a Website for Analytics digital-web.com
Without a comprehensive ability to analyze your site’s traffic, you’ll be unable to determine the effectiveness of your website, online marketing campaigns, and overall online business objectives.
- Veerle's blog | The Expression Engine phase of my new blog veerle.duoh.com
I can imagine that some people are considering [ExpressionEngine] as blog tool and I want to give them an introduction.
Accessible, pretty forms developed by Philip Howard
- Best Stuff in the World! thebeststuffintheworld.com
"An open, organic, polymorphous site which, depending on the user, could take on diverse forms and meanings. The site simply asks you to input your "best stuff" in the world"
- Properties : CSS 2.1 Reference : Cultured Code culturedcode.com
“Apple’s system preference pane for Universal Access: takes into account the probability that users needing assistance [...] would most likely appreciate larger, bolder text on that pref panel.” Might be nice to do for accessibility statements...
- Accessibility or Help links? » AlastairC alastairc.ac
"You see a lot of links on sites which are for “Accessibility”, to provide both help for those with accessibility issues, and state what levels of accessibility the site is aiming for. However, I believe that this content should be split up between tw
"After personally observing users with disabilities interacting with websites in unexpected ways, I have come to believe strongly in the value of user research—and to suspect that we really don’t know quite as much about real-world accessibility as we
- niqui merret » Blog Archive » Visit with the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) niquimerret.com
Great phrase: "We run automated tests and use cleaver scripts that allow us to get compliant but all we get is Check-box Accessibility (compliant but not usable)."
- isolani - Web Accessibility: Accessibility in Trouble isolani.co.uk
Its clear that the web accessibility community has been on a downward spiral for over a year now, but its not entirely clear why.
- IEBlog : IE7 Is Coming This Month...Are you Ready? blogs.msdn.com
Waaaaah!
- Vitamin Features » Redefining content management thinkvitamin.com
- OperaView :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software addons.mozilla.org
Open pages in Opera from Firefox and Mozilla context menus.
- Future of web accessibility » AlastairC alastairc.ac
"Trenton Moss wrote up his thoughts on the future of accessibility (via Accessibility Blog), and the general accessibility implications of some new technologies. The points in the main section of the article are good, but I don’t think they provide suff
- The future of web accessibility webcredible.co.uk
It's been seven years since the W3C released the first version of the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG 1.0). Since then, accessibility has slowly but surely turned up on the radar of web managers in most large organisations.
- CSS Validator colour warnings are not errors | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
t’s quite common for CSS authors to think that the warnings the CSS Validator reports are errors [...] Those particular warnings are there for accessibility reasons and to remind you that you need to take care when specifying colours.
Clients love to request [splash pages] and these are the arguments I use to shoot them down
- Tails Export :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software addons.mozilla.org
An extension for Showing and Exporting Microformats.
I’ve rarely seen the TABINDEX attribute applied without it creating more problems than it solves.
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography webtypography.net
A practical guide to web typography
- In-Browser Wireframe Prototyping with Frametastic xml-blog.com
What I’ve really longed for is an ultra-lightweight, simple tool for producing wireframes right inside the browser. No flash, no java, darn it - no server even - just a pure HTML / CSS / Javascript solution.
Web authors who believe that they’re being thoughtful by making their ACCESSKEY choices alphabetic [...] Please think again. Using numeric characters is quite accessible enough.
- Equal Height Columns using CSS - Edward Eliot ejeliot.com
alternative to faux columns