High Accessibility, High Design is an article by Joe Clark that will give you, the standards-compliant Web designer, a new set of concepts to mull over.
You already knew about accessibility, but now you have a new kind of variant site you can create with stylesheets – a version customized for low-vision people, with and without colour deficiency.
Do you want an easy way to manage multipe libraries in iPhoto? iPhoto Buddy is a free application that allows you to do just that.
usabilitygarage.com is a new blog that post lots of great links relating to the field of usability.
Panther Secrets Declassified offers up over 40 excellent tips for using Panther. The article is published by Macworld.com.
One of the neatest tips is the one that suggests using Fast User Switching while displaying a Powerpoint or Keynote presentation. If you need to switch between the presentation software and another application, simply switch users between the presentation and the other app!
Wow! I’ve been waiting for this one for a while now. Finally a way to syncronize my bookmarks between Firefox on my Mac and PC.
Bookmarks Synchronizer (FTP) is a simple little extension for Firefox that, using an FTP server of your choice, will keep your bookmarks synced!
The Tidy extension is new in PHP 5 and is based on the TidyLib library, and allows the developer to validate, repair, and parse HTML, XHTML and XML documents from within PHP. This article will introduce some of the functionality of the Tidy extension, and explain how it can be used to validate your web documents against their respective W3C standards.
My suggestion would be to write valid code to begin with, but then again, writing HTML within PHP code can be somewhat challenging – a reason I prefer JSP or ColdFusion for my web application work.
The CSS Variable Border 2/3 Columned Page Maker is a slick web-based tool that will help you create liquid 2 or 3 column layouts for your websites.
iPhoto2Weblog will help you solve the hassle involved with putting photos up on the web.
iPhoto can manage the images, but can’t do much with them once they are published on the web. iPhoto2Weblog is a plugin for iPhoto2 that exports to any weblog that supports the MetaWeblogAPI. It uploads the files to the remote server (via the metaWeblog API) and then creates a series of weblog posts with the linked images in place.
EduBlog Insights has an article on the The Ups & Downs of Weblogs in Education. This year I have used a blog in three different contexts within an educational setting.
Each has been extremely successful! They do take some time to do the initial setup, but once perfected, the templates can be used over and over again.
Most Windows and Mac applications support shortcut or access keys, however in most web applications, they are absent. Christian Schmidt has a nice tutorial on how to Highlighting HTML access keys in your web apps.
