The Innocent Statement

Malarkey reviews the results of his unusual experiment. All I can say is ... ouch, but this might explain how Microsoft builds some of it's software.

"Javascript is a wonderful tool to enhance the usability of web sites. It is the extra layer above the mark-up 'what is this text' and the CSS 'how should it be displayed'. Javascript adds a new dimension, the 'how should this element behave'."

This site does a great job of teaching how JavaScript is meant to be used!

Derek Featherstone talks about web standards, and what we can do to make web standards the norm. It seems that there is still plenty left to say about web standards!

In 1995 a new era of accessibility for disabled people began. The DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) was passed, stating that:

It's unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public.

What has John Oxton let himself in for!!

Take back the web!

Richard's site is where the last two links came from. It is worth a read in itself since there a few other sites linked worth seeing.

Another one ... is it better?

I absolutely love this! Now to see how it is done!

I advise you to run up and look at my neighbor's house he constructed last year ... It has many features that we would also like in our new home, particularly the 75-foot swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this into our new house without impacting the final cost.

An interesting technique that is worth thinking about.

No Words....

ScottGu comes back to blogging to let us know how the 'Whidbey' version of Visual Studio is coming along.

Hopefully, Whidbey will be the closest that Microsoft have come to developing a web developers application that provides true web standard code.

A lot of people like to moan about IE's lack of support for Web Standards. Well there is not a place dedicated to doing just this! And apparently the IE Development Team want us to use it. So go and tell them some home truths people, do your worst!

I haven't finished reading this yet, but so far it's good!

Funny stuff!

My old workmate, Chris, has pulled together a good looking site here, and the news page resembles a weblog of sorts even though he is supposed to hate weblogs! Nice one dude! I love the tenticles.

Is this for real? Don't get me wrong, if it is then great! I am all up for getting IE off the web. But did the US Government really warn people not to use it? If they didn't, and someone calls them on it, then the new browser wars will be lost just because someone wants to win so badly.

Check out the 'why' page to understand what I mean. Email me if you have any more info.

( Found Via CMP )

Could this be the best way of getting my ASP.net web controls to produce clean, and valid XHTML?

Just in case you haven't seen it before!

I can relate...

This is going to take some explaining:

This link is to the 'Karova Store' FAQ. Karova Store is a .net e-commerce package made by Andy Clarke's Stuff and Nonsense team. It is a great example of how I think all web application should be aiming to work at the moment, and I consider it to be a benchmark for other e-commerce, as well as other web systems to live up to.

Obviously, it cannot do everything, but as far as its strict adherence to Web Standards is concerned, and because of the benefits this brings, I love it.

Now all we (www.netring.co.uk) have to do, is take it one step further. Somehow.

It is time to upgrade again!

Mr Rutter knocks out a great one. Good work that man!

Keith hits some nails in some heads with his overview of the customer relationship problems facing corperations today on the web.

What is a Web Developers role in regard to the copy of a website? Should or shouldn't they get involved in the content design of the site?

Firefox 0.9 is on the way. Catch up with the new features here!

Airbag has moved because Canada wouldn't let him keep the .ca domain! Gits!

My thoughts on Hass' work for the colour palette website.

Let's spread this one around, and hope that google gets the picture.

I plan on reading this some time in the next couple of days.

Update: I have read it now, and it is good. read it too!

It is nice to see that someone has a methodology all planned out. I would be interested in seeing if 'chug' actually manages to stick to this.

Mr Moll gives away some secrets. Thankyou!

CSS experiment by a guy called Luc. I will enjoy watching him learn via his experiments. Check out his templates also.

Good conversation.

I have been meaning to add this one for ages. Keep forgeting.

Great article that helps to see into the mind of one of the communities greatest designers.

Andy Malarkey suggests the idea of naming conventions within XHTML/CSS development, so that developers, and users, can better understand our code.

It's just very nice, plain very nice.

Get involved in a 'virtual design project' going on over at asterisk*. A great idea, and I plan on getting a little involved myself.

So how come Steve Jobs has got one, and Gates has not? Hmmmm.

I should have linked to this DAYS AGO!
Andy Clarke is producing such great content for his site, and this is a fine example of such content.

Blogmarks are out of date. Sorry about that.

Good copy is possibly the biggest part of a successful website. And, It is commonly the most neglected as well. How annoying!

Be sure to check out the Joe Vitale page.

Interesting comments here. I like the javascript in the first comment.

I havn't read this yet, and that is why I am blogmarking it, I plan on reading it when I get home.

I love this site. A friend of mine is about to start a project for an online art exhibition; I will be sure to show him this to get his creative juices going!

( Found Via CSS Vault )

It's very green.

With the prices of houses in the UK going up up up, I might be sold on one of these.

Pure coolness. One day I want to be as good as this.

Jon Hicks waves his magic hand again, and comes up with a great piece for a Mozilla Thunderbird logo.

Justin Gehtland at O'Reilly makes the case for doing UI development early on in project workflow, rather than at the end.

But just because it makes for a better sale, does it make for a better product? And if it doesn't, then what matters the most to you?

Zeldman has let it out of the bag that he and his wife are expecting a baby in September. Congratulations to both of you!

Here is an artists impression of what the baby should look like.

Behind a pretty bad interface, there is a good resource here. Dave Shea says it is one to watch, so I am watching.

( Found Via Dave Shea )

ColoUr coding of different sections on a web site that is. This technique can be used as a good usability tool to help the audience navigate around the website. However, this blog post points out that it can be done wrong, and there might be more important things to apply the colour too.

I'm not sure if I agree with everything said, but it's a good read. Enjoy.

Why isn't Zeldman in as a Guru I ask myself? Meh.

( Found Via Some Cat Person )

This just blew me away. I was playing with it for like, 5 minutes!

( Found Via Dunstan's blogmarks )

Jeffrey Veen writes a great article. You might be able to show this one to your boss, and he might even understand it.

Paul stirs thinks up a bit, without meaning to. But it still makes for good conversation. I look forward to his follow up post.

Some great lookins entries this month, and Scrivs lets us know what next months site is.

Happy Cog Studios - Zeldman's famous design company, have redesigned their site.

I am not to sure whether I like it yet. It looks a lot like some other stuff out there. But I do like the way that their front page contains portfolio information straight away. Letting the visitor see the goods at the start of the visit.

New ALA prooves that CSS can be used in HTML emails. But there are a few differences that need to be kept in mind.

Eric questions the viability of not having weblogs in chronological order. He brings out some good points, and I am about to think about them over lunch.

The guy who gives us iCapture, has also, now given us ieCapture, so that we can test in ;

• Internet Explorer 6.0
• Internet Explorer 5.5
• Internet Explorer 5.01
• Mozilla Firefox 0.8
• Opera 7.23

Dan Vine Rocks!

Do you want to be able to check your pages on a Mac, but you can't get one? Then use this guy's Mac. He will let you, for free!

Pixy has a colour chooser too. Nice.

More with the colour. Even Zeldman liked this one.

Another helpfull colour chooser.

By the Man in Blue. A great experiment to help with colour choosing.

( Found Via Hasan )

Is scrivs really questioning the importance of Design? Or is he just trying to get people to think more about the importance of design, and it's place under the big Web Development umbrella?

With the expanding support for PNG, it has become more and more frustrating to be prevented by IE's lack of support to fully use PNGs. We will try to find a way to bypass IE's limitations (until the next vesion comes out and hopefully solves the problem) by showing it what it can display, and by giving PNGs to more modern browsers.

Some nice CSS Templates. Free for all to use. Good stuff.

White Space is just full of these great posts and conversations at the moment

This one - even though it is only really in response to other people posts on the net - brings to light the stuff we need to think about in web development, but might let slip our minds sometimes.

Rutter talks about Soft Hyphens use in web development, and how we are limited at the moment with them.

He also mentions something from the CSS3 spec that I havn't noticed yet. Sweet.

( Found Via dunstan's blogroll )

I haven't read through all of this yet. And I am not sure if I will be using any of it, since I am not really a fan of javascript any more. But, if it is good enough, things might change.

I am newish to Acts Of Volition, but I have to say that this guy has some great musical taste.

This session is dedicated to Gene Eugene.

Loads of great links. A months worth of reading if you are not carefull!

Airbag.ca is well on the way to getting on the Blogroll, and this is why.

Web Standards are being taken up in fource, and everyone is talking about them. Dam, I redeveloped my whole blog because of them, and I am slowly rehasing gnasp.com for the same reasons.

But are we loosing the plot a little? I don't agree with all the comments made on this article, but I do find them interesting.

I am a little late on the up-take for this one, as the Awards are all but over. However, if your interested in what it is all about, I have found that the SXSW Blog I am linking too, is the best way of getting to grips with the nature of it all.

I am really peeved at myself for missing out on this one, and I will definitely be keeping an eye out for it next year.

( Found Via Sergio's blog )

New kid on the block: Hassan, is about the only person commenting on my blogs at the moment. Thanks mate!

This is his new site. He is new to the game, so lets give him all the support we can people. I've bookmarked him, and maybe you should also. He knows his stuff rather well.

What should we put in footers? Why are footers relivant to the user of the site?

All that and more over in Whitespace ...

You can know the Spec inside out! But, the spec will not help you to work out how the browser is actually rendering your css layouts.

Dave Shea has given you the fish, with the CSS Crib Sheet, now he is teaching you how to fish for yourself.

It's not new, but it is a definate resource that just must be linked to.

Brought to you by the Zen Gardener himself, Dave Shea.

I have always likes taking pictures of myself in the mirror. Really, I do.

It is so nice to find out that other people do also.

A great little conversation going on at Whitespace at the moment, all about methods and ways of Finding Creativity.

At some point, we all have to do this, whether a web developer, a poster artist, graphic designer, or musician. Maybe we can ask other people outside of our line of work how they do Find Creativity, and then try and implement the ideas to our creative process. The hardest part of this, is finding those other people online.

A pretty nifty site, that I like a lot. It does have an issue with Firefox; It has a strange line accross the header.

All in all, I love it. And, I suspect the use of PNG's in there somewhere, although I haven't checked.

( Found Via clagnut )

I find it hard to understand how and why the Chinese Government get away with so much Censorship of Internet Media.

This article goes to explain how some people are trying to help the Chinese people to get around their Governments tight grip.

You have to ask though, do the chinese people really care?

The americans have had to deal with the Digital Media Millenium Act for a while now. Maybe we can ask them for advice?

Yet another example of how The Man is over stepping the line

( Found Via BBC news )

( Found Via 1976design.com )

( Found Via zelldman.com )