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Presentations
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The Electronic
Canvas: Designer Beware!!
Forget Paper - Design For The Screen
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Accessibility Unplugged
Some Practical Advice About Making Web Content Work For Everyone, Everywhere
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The Great Cascade
Just Where Are The Style Sheets In A Web Page?
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Articles
2007
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What Is It? A Link Or An Underline?
Don't you feel foolish when you click on underlined text thinking it was a link. Here's a remedy for the problem.
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Turning Users Into People
Better quit calling the people who use your web site "users" because they're not users. They're people,
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Dreamweaver Revisited
When Adobe too over Macromedia what did they do to assist web designers and content creators in creating web pages that follow web page design standards? Not much.
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Just The Opposite Is True
Do you think that by following web page design standards you'll be unable to create visually engaging web sites? Think again!!
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It's The Navigation, Stupid
After you've killed yourself getting visitors to your site what's the thing that is most likely to drive them away?
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That Bright Line - Part 1 of 2
The more I understand web design standards the easier it gets for me to see the difference between the separation of web document structure from style.
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That Bright Line - Part 2 of 2
One of my students also understands the separation of structure from style. And why that is useful.
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What Means Work?
How do you define an hour of work in the Digital Age?
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Font Tester
An online tool that let's you easily test out your ideas about which font to use.
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Serving All The Masters - Part 1 of 2
Use web page design standards and you'll make everything - and everyone - happy.
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Serving All The Masters - Part 2 of 2
More of the same but with an example.
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What It's All About
Web page design is a process by which informed (let us hope) decisions are made.
2006
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2006 Year In Review - The Best Of Joy Gems
I picked out a few of the best Joy Gems of 2006. At least I thought these were the best.
A Little Of This, A Little Of That
A short collection of interesting resources that generally lead to the same place: web design standards.
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Buy These Books
A short selection of great web design books, mostly for newbies, from a Friendly Web Design Instructor.
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White Open Spaces
Frequently forgotten and most important in web page design is the space where nothing is said or done.
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A Useful Microsoft Tool (really) Hidden From View (naturally)
What's free, in front of your face and can FTP files from your (Windows only) computer to a server?
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Tools Of The Trade
What programs do you use to make web sites? Here are a few long trusted and worthy friends.
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Think Before You Code
Don't just dive into making web pages when you start putting your site together.
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The Holy Grail Of Web Page Design: Look Ma' No Tables
To use layout tables or not to use layout tables - that's the question.
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MySpace Is Not My Space
The popular online teen community is teaching kids a few bad things about web design.
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The Funer Side Of Web Design
A few sites that poke fun at web design - and where you can learn a thing or two.
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Where's The Cascade
In Cascading Style Sheets? 1 of 2
How the 3 Style Sheets work together to influence web design.
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Where's The Cascade
In Cascading Style Sheets? 2 of 2
More on how the 3 Style Sheets work together to influence web design.
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Are We Ever Going To See
IE7.0?
What That 800lb. Redmond Gorilla Is Doing To Their New Browser
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What Style Is Your Parachute?
Where does one's sense of style used in web design come from?
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A Writer's Medium
After you strip away all the fluff of a web page you're left with the naked
truth.
Sometimes You Have To Hide
Yes Virginia, There Is A Way To Hide Your Web Site From Pryin' Eyes.
Why Bother To Learn XHTML?
The case is made.
Fonts Fonts Fonts
A Fontophile takes an overview of something too frequently overlooked.
Navigation Tips - Moving About In Infospace
Some things to keep in mind when making a web site. (Don't forget your visitors!!)
2005 Year In Review - The Best Of Joy Gems
I picked out a few of the best Joy Gems of 2005 -- the ones you liked and
so did I.
2005
Web Accessibility Toolbar - A Good Friend For Webmasters
Put this baby in your browser to easily evaluate how others make their pages
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Beginners' Guides To Cascading Style
Sheets
Some places to start if you're new to CSS -- or even if you're not so new.
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The Other Side Of CSS And Web Standards
Other perspectives about Cascading Style Sheets and Web Standards -- Be
Practical
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Color My World With Great Online Tools
A few well worn online color tools for web designers, developers and content
creators.
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So, You Want
To Know About HTML Goodies, Huh?
The well known site where you can get HTML tutorials and much more.
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A Well Formed
Document Is A Beautiful Thing
This is more important than beauty being in the eye of the beholder.
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Writing Hints
For The Web
Learn To Write In Hyper Text
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5 Design Principles
Do These And You'll Be Ahead Of The Game
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Old World, New World
I Was Thinking Out Loud When I Discovered Daoism
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SearchDay, Every
Day
A Newsletter That's A Must For Anyone Who Needs To Know Everything About
Search
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SEO: Giving Your Site
A Chance To Be Found
Meet Jill Whalen - A Giant In The Search Engine Optimization Biz
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Speed Thrills:
A Way To Optimize Your Pages So They'll Download Faster
Meet Andy King - A Web Page Speed Freak
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Check It Out
- W3C's HTML And CSS Validators 1 of 2
If You Don't Know What Validation Is It's Time To Learn
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Check It Out
- W3C's HTML And CSS Validators 2 of 2
Couldn't Fit It On One Page
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Image Depots
- Where To License Royalty Free Images
Meet Corbis And Getty
Top Style - An Awesome
Tool To Help You Make Cascading Style Sheets
Sorry Mac Users. The Best Of The Breed Was Made Only For Win Users
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A Few Thoughts From
The Past And Present On Site Development
Some Things I Wrote Years Ago Still Hold Up
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Color Help - Two
Tools That Check For Color Blindness And Contrast Issues
Color Matters
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A Method Of Building
A Small Web Site 1 of 2
Step 1 - Charting, Step 2 - Wire Framing
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A Method Of Building
A Small Web Site 2 of 2
Step 3 - Templating, Step 4 - Building
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Listamatic - The
Magic Of Working With Lists And Links
One Of The Classic Works Of Art On How To Make List Markup Work In Unbelievable
Ways
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Tidy GUI: Fixing Up
Code And Converting To XHTML
It Doesn't Look Like Much But It's Handy To Keep It Around In Your Web Designer
Tool Box
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CSS Zen Garden
- The Power Of CSS
Want Some Inspiration About What You Can Do With Cascading Style Sheets?
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Bobby
And Cynthia - Two Tools To Test Your Pages For Accessibility
Bobby's Been Taken Over By WebXACT But Still Doing The Job On Accessibility
Testing
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The History Of The
Web
We've Come A Long Way, Baby
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The Granddaddy
Of Browser Archives
You Won't Believe How Many Web Browsers Have Been Developed
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Things I Hate About
The Web 1 of 2
Pop Ups, Underlined Text, Poor Multimedia Controls And More
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Things I Hate About
The Web Part 2 of 2
Too Much For One Page