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A Little Of This, A Little Of That

By Bud Kraus
bud@joyofcode.com
Joy Of Code
Creator And Instructor

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Originally Published: November 30, 2006

Here's what happens when my head gets spinning with a lot of interesting things I could write about for Joy Gems. I make a list.

So what follows is my list - just a little of this and that which couldn't make it as one whole Joy Gems

From "A List Apart"

12 Lessons For Those Afraid Of CSS And Standards
I could not have written a better list of Lessons Learned since I gave up on CSS in 1998 only to return with reckless love for it in the past few years.

A Dao Of Web Design
Long before I ever knew it, I was a practitioner of Daoism. I had no idea that I was using the principles of Daoism as I went about creating sites and teaching others how to do it. Then I found this gem.

Search

Search Engine Rankings
Even though I haven't looked into this one yet, I've read where Jill Whalen, SEO guru, has. That was enough for me.

High Rankings Advisor
Speaking of Ms. Whalen, I've referenced her site before, but it's worth another look. There's a lot of good stuff on optimizing your pages for search. It includes a Forum where search issues are the coin of that realm.

Better Web

Online Image Optimization Tool
This is a free service that will help you balance the issue of image quality vs. image file size. Helpful for the non-artist in me and you.

To Hell With WCAG 2
If you follow the developments of the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, then you know they are in the midst of redefining how to create accessible web sites. This is Joe Clark's scathing take on what they are doing with the new standards. Clark nailed it.

UPA 2006 Conference
The Usability Professional Association's annual conference featured some big names and big ideas about usability. Their web site holds the podcast and transcript of some of those names and ideas.

Miscellaneous

CSS Creator
If you can get past all the "Ads By Google," you get a site that's got a Forum and zillions of links to everything CSS. Currently, they are yakking up the newly released IE 7.

F-Shape Pattern Of Reading A Web Page
We know web users scan pages, but they do so in a particular way that is very different than scanning print copy. Let Jakob Nielsen explain the rest.