CAPTCHA – What are the Alternatives? In a very interesting document published by the working group over at W3C, it was discussed in detail how CAPTCHA’s are very bad for accessibility. In case you don’t recall, CAPTCHA is that nice acronym for the terribly long…
The Software Monopoly – At it Again In what seems to be part of a new tactical run to try kill Opensource software, Microsoft apparently was able to score one point on this one. A document called the Vienna Conclusions was presented during the WSIS…
I bet their graphic artist went through a lot of stress coming up with that unique name change. Was definitely worth a good laugh – though I much prefer OSM over Pajamas Media. By the way, the picture is real. I took it a couple…
Online Feed Validation from W3C In a list notice by Oliver Thereaux at the W3C, we found out about the new web tool for Feed validation. Well, let me amend that, it’s not an entirely new tool actually. This ‘new’ online validator is based on…
CSS Reboot Complete! For those folks out there who don’t know what the great CSS Reboot frenzy is all about, let me give you an overview. It’s about taking some time to redesign with standards. We know it’s a good practice to keep the look…
Continuing with Style Now that we have seen the strenghts of inline CSS (remember that this is when you have the style in the line of the code) we need to broaden this further. While it would save you typing to get rid of the…
An Ode to An Old Friend “<font> has passed away. Kicked the bucked. Been buried. Sung it’s last hurrah. Let it be remembered for many long nights of ‘search and replace’ and for having one heck of an ability to pack on the kilobytes. We…
Beginning with the Basics Now that you have the file unzipped, you’ll see that it is a single index file with a images folder. That was not how it was orginally, as it included duplicate renamed pages (named for each of the links), so I…
Introduction [Note:] This tutorial is for people who have already been making websites. It is not for beginners. For this tutorial I will assume that you understand the basic uses of tags, images, fonts, can use a text editor (I recommend PSPad), and have overall…
I edit a lot of text files. Alot. The short list of file types that I open on a regular basis include plain text files, web pages, php pages, css files, and javascripts. That’s just before lunch. I’ve had to juggle through various different programs…