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  • 10.4.06 TextMate and Wordpress Theme Development posted in Web Design, Geekery

    I just finished developing a full Wordpress theme using TextMate and other OS X specific tools, and thought I would document the process. I know it’s not news to everybody, but there are a few people that have expressed interest in this project… My goal has been to replace Dreamweaver without giving […]

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  • 9.10.06 A legal precedent for standards and semantics posted in Web Design

    Finally something interesting filtered through to me today… Target corp. got sued by groups representing the visually-impaired community and their right to sue was upheld by the court. I’ve been whining for quite a while about the need for accessibility on the web. Even if every site isn’t built around screen readers, […]

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  • 9.4.06 Website as DNA posted in Web Design

    There’s a fun new website up at http://www.baekdal.com/web2dna/. It takes a given website and converts it to human DNA, the brightness and density based on the markup. The more keywords and the more semantic the markup is, the brighter and denser the map. The image included in this post is from […]

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  • 9.1.06 IE Developer Center Redesign: still a table. posted in Web Design

    Microsoft just announced a redesign of their Internet Explorer Developer Center on the IEblog. So I checked it out. You would think, with all of their supposed attention to CSS and standards compliance on IE7 that they would have paid a little attention to either one when putting a redesign of their […]

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  • 8.10.06 Javascript and SEO: The new school. posted in Web Design

    DOM Scripting is changing the old rules of SEO. I was raised to believe that javascript hindered a sites readability by search engine spiders and should be avoided at all costs. Of course, I come from an era where images were sliced apart and held together with tables, and rollovers were created […]

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  • 8.9.06 How important is validation? posted in Web Design

    I have a confession to make. While I work hard to make my businesses homepage validate, and I try to keep my smaller sites validated, I let it slide on bigger sites. And I let warnings pile up. And I started wondering if I was alone… This post on boompa.com seemed to validate […]

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  • 8.8.06 Spotlight: Navigation posted in General

    Here’s a snippet from a very good, very concise article at A List Apart titled Where Am I?: Any good global navigation scheme should, at a glance, answer the top three questions every user has at the back of their mind on any page: Where am I? (Present) Where can I go? (Future) Where have I been? (Past) The article talks about the […]

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  • 6.29.06 Accessibility posted in General

    Our site was suffering from some major accessibility issues: browsers without javascript couldn’t access the text content in the sliding panes, screen readers ignored the entire sliding pane section, etc.  A little DOM javascript in the header fixed the problem for us, creating a readable page first and then adding styles to the appropriate […]

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