Daily Links

• Architecture Digest vs. This Old House, "A drop-down menu tells me there were too many decision makers, none of whom understood that the user’s needs were more important than their ego-driven desire to win front-page placement for their little piece of the content puzzle.", Jeffrey Zeldman on drop-down menus.

Daily Links

• XML for Grownups, by Robert Rossney.


• The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

WWW2004 Proceedings

WWW2004 Proceedings

Reference: Form styling with CSS

• Stylish, accessible forms, from Malrkey.

Daily Links

• The coolest DHTML calendar widget - "This is the most popular DHTML Calendar. It can work as a popup calendar or a flat calendar (flat means it's always displayed in page). It works with Mozilla, Netscape >= 6.0, all other Gecko-based browsers, Internet Explorer >= 5.0 for Windows, Opera 7, Safari and Konqueror." (demo).


• OSCOM Kupu - "Kupu is a 'document-centric' open source client-side editor for Mozilla, Netscape and Internet Explorer." (screenshots).


• Google's Gag Order - "As I learned this week, however, Google may be playing a darker, more sinister role in American society: corporate censor.".

Reference: News Visualization

• newsmap - "Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator."


• google news - " This data visualization experiment is intended to give a high-level view of who's making news at the moment, and who made the news at specified times in the past."


• Yahoo! Tracker - "This graph from programmer Peter Bradshaw shows the most popular photos from AP, Reuters and AFP as tracked by Yahoo News." [via]

Reference: Photo Gallery Management Systems

• PhotoStack, demo.


• PhotoDir, demo.


• QDig, demo.

Daily Links

• How Microsoft Lost the API War - "The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing".


• GuruNet - "integrated references answers instead of just search engine links".
  

Reference: Internet

• ISOC A Brief History of the Internet.


• IETF The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force.


• FCC The Internet: A Short History of Getting Connected.


• ISOC All About The Internet.


• Robert Zakon Hobbes' Internet Timeline.


• Internet: "The Big Picture" - a diagram.


• Internet Mapping Project.


• The Network Book

FCKeditor - The text editor for Internet

FCKeditor - The text editor for Internet, IE 5+, Mozilla and Netscape compatible.

This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It's really lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation in the client computer. As it is Open Source, you are allowed to use it for free wherever you want.

The History of Programming Languages

Via Slashdot , "a poster called History of Programming Languages [PDF], which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline".

Photoshop tips

• The Greg Gorman Color to B&W Conversion Technique - scroll down.


• Advanced Color Correction with Levels - amazing results.

Dynamic Text Replacement

Dynamic Text Replacement

No more <img> or <span> tags, no more id attributes or wasted time in Photoshop, and no more messy CSS hacks. Using JavaScript and PHP, we can generate accessible image-headings using any font we like. And we don’t have to change the structure of our HTML or CSS at all.

I've got to try this, definitely.

Daily Links

• Banners Promoting Standards-based Products / Services - a few good ones.


• Pioneer Who Kept the Web Free Honored With a Technology Prize - TBL is "recognized, with the award of the world's largest technology prize, the Millennium Technology Prize from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation".


• AIGA - Symbol signs, "The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats.".


• :hover emulation for IE5+, hacking with JavaScript.


• Sudden Closure of Weblogs.com Strands Bloggers - ouch.

Technical Illustration How-To

An amazing cruise ship illustration with a description of the process. 720 hours of work in Illustrator and Photoshop. Don't forget the check the online portfolio.

Daily Links

• New IE vulnerability - "allows hackers to gain control of a user's computer when they click on a hyperlink, even while using a fully-patched version of IE6".


• Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone - "I know the following system works 100% of the time with Google to attain rankings across a wide range of keywords. This is what I do with clients to build a successful site and has worked every time."

Daily Links

• MT3 Default Styles.


• MT3 Default Templates.


• Key Values Plugin for MT - from Brad Choate.


• 101 ways to improve your news site.


• Hjughhjhjjjk - breaking news from Público :)

Daily Links

• kryogenix.org - nice menu system.


• WCAG and the Myth of Accessibility - Those web users with learning or perceptual disability are just as excluded as before.


• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - for reference.


• Expandable Listmenu Script - Non obtrusive, minimal markup, degrades nicely, CSS based. 5 stars.


• Using Photoshop’s Native Filters - a tutorial from Authentic Boredom.


• EditThisPagePHP - looks good. Bookmark for testing.


• Furl - Furl helps you save, share, and recall anything you find online.

Sistema de blogs da Assembleia da República

Sistema de blogs da Assembleia da República. Unfortunately you have to use IE to search the site. A problem being solved, I hope..

Canadian election Web sites flunk standards test

Canadian election Web sites flunk standards test. Summary: incorrect coding, IE only, no language identification and inaccessible to people with disabilities.

Designing The Band

Designing The Band, a webdesign example project from D. Keith Robinson. Educational.

Javascript Color Picker

Color select control. A very nice color picker in Javascript. Moz1.2+, IE6+ only.

Euro coins tend to fall down with heads up

Heads, Belgium wins - and wins.

Mathematicians say the coins issued in the eurozone's administrative heartland are more likely to land heads up than down.

True Random Number Service

Random.org - True Random Number Service. The numbers are generated with atmospheric noise and made available via HTTP and CORBA.

Blog Software Breakdown

Blog Software Breakdown. A long list of blogging software. According to the author's blog:

The truth is that I knew what I was going to move to before I put the chart online. I was very sure that I was going to lay out the cash for Expression Engine. But after playing with all of the tools (even Expression Engine via their very generous givaway), WordPress won out.

CSS from the Ground Up

CSS from the Ground Up. A nice tutorial from wpdfd.

CSS naming conventions table

And all that Malarkey // Naming conventions table. An overview of the naming conventions used in various sites. Winning options: container; header; nav; menu; sidebar; content; footer. [via]

Using Mozilla DOM inspector to view CSS rules

Mozilla DOM inspector | clagnut/blog. Nice. [via]