Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web
Posted on Dec 30, 2006 11:49:03 PM
I’ve always disliked the “Dummies” books—you know, the ones with the bright yellow covers. Despite the potential for funny titles (“Cooking for Dummies”), I’ve always found them to be vaguely insulting. When it comes to the burgeoning field of Information Architecture, however, a book for beginners (not always dummies) would be welcome. And now it’s here.
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Tags: Architecture, Blueprints, InformationTo Use or Not to Use: An XHTML Roadmap for Designers
Posted on Dec 28, 2006 08:09:40 AM
January 26th, 2001 marks the first birthday of XHTML 1.0 as the W3C recommendation for Web markup. But XHTML has yet to toddle, yet to smile, yet to cry loud enough so as to get the attention of most Web designers.
The problem with XHTML 1.0 isn't a matter of strength, or of importance. XHTML is both strong and important--and not just for markup snobs and hardcore developers. It's not that XHTML 1.0 has a particularly high learning Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: designers, Roadmap, XHTMLTrendy Omni Beanbag
Posted on Dec 28, 2006 07:56:35 AM
First of all, thanks to Andrew, from Sumo, for offering me an Omni beanbag. When Andrew offered me "the world’s most comfortable product", the Sumo Omni, I thought he was joking. So I went to their website to do some research about this Omni product. I found out that Omni has been published in many famous places like TechTV, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, HGTV, and even Playboy Magazine. Since I was in need of a trendy lounge chair for my Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Beanbag, Omni, TrendyProblem with the file hosting
Posted on Dec 27, 2006 01:32:02 PM
From yesterday I saw some problems with filebox.ro, the free file hosting company where all my files and vector graphics are stored, so it makes download impossible. For how long ? I don’t know, and I’m truly sorry for any inconvenience this may cause to you.
They have been DDOS attacked, their servers were floode, etc. So not even they don’t know when this will go back to normal.
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Tags: file, Hosting, problem, withNew WordPress Themes from our 2007 WordPress Theme Design Competition
Posted on Dec 27, 2006 06:07:34 AM
We present to you the qualifying themes for the 2007 DesignVitality WordPress Theme Design competition. We have created a gallery including a preview of each WordPress theme and the authors name. All the themes are available for you to download and enjoy.
Vote for your favorite themes and help the theme designer win one of $1,500 worth of prizes.
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Tags: 2007, Competition, Design, from, Theme, Themes, WordPressRDF For The Rest Of Us
Posted on Dec 22, 2006 12:04:20 PM
You have a website full of information, and you want to make it easier for people to reuse it—but what format should you publish it in?
You’ve looked at various XML schemas and microformats, but none of them really describes all the information that you want to publish. Should you invent a new format? It’s tempting, but if you could use an existing standard, your data would be immediately interoperable with Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: RestHow to create Swirls in Illustrator & Photoshop
Posted on Dec 21, 2006 09:36:38 PM
Digging around I’ve found one of the most complete website that teaches you how to create swirls in Illustrator & Photoshop. There is not just one way to do it, and the author proves that and shows you step by step how to master Illustrator and create very cool swirls.
Visit abduzeedo’s blog right now and start learning.
Tags: Create, Illustrator, Photoshop, SwirlsHTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web
Posted on Dec 20, 2006 02:14:30 PM
As workers on the web today, we are dealing with many technologies that have been stable for a long time.
HTML 4.01 was made a recommendation in 1999, XHTML 1.0—a formulation of HTML 4.01 in XML—became a recommendation in 2000, and was revised in 2002. In other words, at the base of all modern web development is an eight-year-old technology.
HTML 4.01 may be a good, stable ground for developers to stand Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Future, HTML5, XHTML299.9% of Websites Are Obsolete
Posted on Dec 20, 2006 09:09:43 AM
An equal opportunity disease afflicts nearly every site now on the Web, from the humblest personal homepages to the multi-million-dollar sites of corporate giants. Cunning and insidious, the disease goes largely unrecognized because it is based on industry norms. Though their owners and managers may not know it yet, 99.9% of all websites are obsolete.
These sites may look and work all right in mainstream, desktop browsers whose names Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Obsolete, WebsitesExcerpt: Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs and Libraries
Posted on Dec 19, 2006 10:51:33 PM
JavaScript libraries have been around in one form or another for almost as long as JavaScript itself. As you go from project to project, it’s inevitable that you’ll find yourself reusing various functions. They become part of your core that you end up copying each time you start up something new. With any good library, code reuse leads to reliability; using the same code on multiple projects means that the code has been exposed to more Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accelerated, Ajax, APIs, Excerpt, Libraries, Scripting, with