Category: Geek
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Upgrade
Please pardon our appearance while we are managing the upgrade to WordPress 1.5.1.3 in response to a security hole. Normally I would prefer to upgrade and make pretty all at once but this time it couldn’t be helped.
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WWW2005 – shameful name dropping
I attended WWW2005 in Chiba, Japan, just outside of Tokyo. It was a fun conference. I met lots of great people, and saw some people I hadn’t in a while.
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Malkovich Malkovich?
La Belote has gone awry. I’ve been working on a card game called la belote for my programming class. The latest iteration amused me a lot. Anyone want to take the trump? Ace of clubs? Anyone??
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Morgan and the Expanding Container Element
I am working on a site for Mason where he can record his adventures rebuilding a Morgan with his father-in-law. The design is going alright, and I have only two gripes.
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WYSIWYG Editor Accessibility Test Results:
Allowing writers to contribute to the creation of accessible documents. The testing was based on the needs of non-technical content contributors; writers, graphic artists, editors, etc. The program had to shield the user from all the code and provide a simple usable interface. It is reasonable to expect writers to be able to update documents…
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Why design accessible web sites?
An accessible and non-accessible site can look exactly the same to a non-disabled user. It can be difficult then to understand what the fuss is all about. Why is it important to consider accessibility when designing and planning online assets?
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Accessibility for Writers: Software Manuals
One of the most important improvements that can be made to the accessibility of a site is a task that will often fall to writers. Adding text to describe images allows blind and visually-impaired users to access your content, but writing it is not necessarily something that comes naturally. The tips compiled here will help…
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Web Design Resources
I became a geek by accident. I was a groupie for ages and then it just kind of rubbed off on me. I am eager to collect my links before they get lost. The resources for learning to design well are out there, but hard to find and evaluate until you know the basics. This…
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HTML Lite
Approach: For a long time I didn’t really understand the reason for CSS, XHTML, and standards in general. I didn’t get that the reason for the separation of CSS and HTML was to separate content from presentation. And even when I read that statement in Standards based design books, I didn’t understand why. What are…