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HTML5
HTML5 is making me quiver with excitement. There is so much awesomeness in it, I almost want to scream. This is a wet-dream come true. I cannot wait until they get something ironed-out a bit more like that hgroup thingy and the header/footer issues too. I Love It. HTML5 is my precious!
I cannot wait [...]
Sauk County Updates
The developer that we hired redesign and Drupalify the Sauk Counth site bailed on us after 10 months of not much progress. We have however hired for considerably more money Aha! Consulting to start over with and I am really happy with their knowledge of accessibility and usability too. I am looking forward to working [...]
2 New Usability and Development Links
Here are two really helpful links that rock:
Web Design + – a great list of common tip and tricks for Web Standards based development
UserFly – a wondrous tool to record user usage of your site. WOW!
If you do web development check them out NOW!
More It’s All About You Updates
I did some more work last night until 03:00 (3:00am) and a little this morning which should take care of a few of my remaining issues:
Hand-held Style Sheet
I finished the Hand-Held style sheet last night and have only tested it in Opera’s small screen mode. Looks OK. I am hoping that realted devices such as [...]
It’s All About You’s website is basically done..
I finished It’s All About You’s site for our Yoga Studio to-be. It took me one day to put the basic site together. A second day was used to tweak and play with the navigation. The third day was used to get some of the content out there.
There is still some work that needs to be [...]
WCAG 2.0 Released
The W3C release the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
Understanding WCAG 2.0
Techniques for WCAG 2.0
How to Meet WCAG 2.0
I Have Ordered Ergo-Stuff for Work
Keyboard
I have not posted about this before, but quite a while ago I have been diagnosed with overuse syndrome which is a precursor to carpal tunnel syndrome. I had some annoying symptoms like a slight burning senesation in my wrist and near my elbow.
At that time part of how I combatted that was to mouse [...]
Web Standards, Development Firms, and Drupal
Now, I realize that, by virtue of being a web standards based developer, that I am a significant minority, but this is the first time that I have had this reality really had it crammed down my throat. =) =(
Well, at work I have been searching specifically for web standards developers for a major Drupal [...]
Post PHP Intro Thoughts
I have just finished the PHP Intro course through Webucator and will be taking their Advanced PHP course in a little over a week. I am sooo glad that work is paying for this. =)
In general I like PHP and what it can do. My immediate feeling is that it is not a robust as [...]
Introductory PHP Class
Tomorrow, I will be taking and Introductory PHP Class for 4 days (Tue through Fri) via Webucator. It is in a webinar format with Voice over IP. This is my first webinar type of training so we shall see how this goes.
