Archived posts, April 2006

Making your headlines work for you and for your readers

Make your headlines work for you by bringing in new readers, and for your readers by helping them understand what your articles are about.

  • April 27, 2006
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Google tells IE users to get Firefox

Google’s homepage is now featuring an ad for Firefox with Google Toolbar that is only displayed to Internet Explorer users.

  • April 26, 2006
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Blog Design Solutions

A great help to anyone who is about to set up a blog and wants to know which blogging engine to use (or how to build their own).

  • April 26, 2006
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The history of web standards and accessibility

A story of web standards and accessibility from the release of HTML 3.2 in 1997 until now, with a look at what we can expect in the future.

Evaluating website accessibility

An introduction to a series of articles that explain techniques for evaluating the accessibility of a website. Useful to both developers and website owners.

  • April 24, 2006
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CSS Showcase - a gallery of CSS menus

A gallery of CSS based menu designs and CSS techniques for creating various types of tabbed navigation.

  • April 21, 2006
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CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions

A book that is a great guide to CSS tips, tricks, and techniques, and contains extensive coverage of browser bugs, hacks, and filters.

  • April 19, 2006
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Indicating language choice: flags, text, both, neither?

Do not use flag icons to indicate language choice. Instead use the name of the language as text in the language itself.

  • April 18, 2006
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Easily digested, Bite Size Standards

Useful information on web standards and related topics in small, bite-sized chunks.

  • April 17, 2006
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A showcase for attractive and accessible websites

Accessites.org is a showcase for websites that dispel the myth that accessible websites have to be boring and basic.

  • April 13, 2006
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CSS support in email clients

The level of CSS support varies so much from one email client to another it’s frustrating, but this guide will help you out when you need to create HTML newsletters.

  • April 12, 2006
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Styling text fields in Safari

In the latest builds of WebKit, single line text inputs can be heavily styled with CSS. Use with care.

Alt text is an alternative, not a tooltip

Alternative text should never be displayed at the same time as the image it provides an alternative for.

Box model article in CAP&Design

Issue 3/2006 of Swedish design magazine CAP&Design features an article I have written about the CSS box model and Internet Explorer.

  • April 4, 2006
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Content Management Systems used by public sector websites found lacking

A survey shows that CMSs used by Swedish public sector websites are lacking with respect to accessibility and web standards.

And we have a winner

Announcing the winner of the 456 Berea Street tagline contest: Between Web Standards Boulevard and Accessibility Road.

  • April 2, 2006
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