Blogmarks

February 2004

• Use JavaScript to improve accessibility – Gets you through WAI AAA Guideline 10.4
• Do you write like a girl? – Gender genie provides the answer
• Hubs, wizards and guides – Principles of task flow for Web applications
• Styling <hr> – Turn this supposedly structural mark-up into an image [via]
• Ping me baby one more time – Run-down of services requesting your weblog pings [via]
• Pop-up suicide could kill your brand – PDF. Research confirms what we knew already.
• 3 col layout with equalising columns & footer – The footer stays at the bottom – no scripting required [via]
• Solution to IE float/margin bugs – More brilliance from Big John and co
• Textpattern1.10 is out – Dean’s off to bed
• Blogarama redesigned – Blog directory. I dare you to post a review of Clagnut
• Find a Web Designer – They could do with finding one to design their own site
• Greatest internet sports games of all time – Bored at work? You won’t be after this
• Offside rule explained – In egregious Flash
• Accessible Web typography – Online book. Buy the pdf or read the HTML. [via]
• Microsoft manual of style – Lots of genuinely good advice for writing technical publications
• khtml2png – Command line program to create PNGs of webpages.
• Capitalization in titles
• PHP sendmail frustration – Another knock-on of myDoom. Check your email subjects.
• Unix command summary – Handy list for shell accounts [via]
• Visited countries – Create a world map highlighting countries you’ve been to [via]
• Does validation really matter? – I don’t think it’s widely understood how unique the code is.
• What if Google didn’t like blogs? – from a blog about blogging for commercial bloggers
• Seven myths of usability ROI – Nielsen’s voodoo economics is one [via]
• Custom underlines – More background image gubbins from ALA
• Stylish scripting – Simon Willison’s new SitePoint blog
• Section 508 at odds with rich Web apps? – to ponder and discuss (on wg) [via]
• Version 2: Redesign Monthly – A monthly CSS redesign contest. Currently: Project Gutenberg [via]
• Start your own software company – A how-to from Microsoft, of all people [via]
• Where my IM pic came from – Since you asked. ‘Seminal emissions at night are natural’ [via]
• Photo Friday – Weekly photo assignments [via]
• Grey expectations – Stunning b&w photography by Noah Grey [via]