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Coloured boxes - now in Brazilian-Portuguese

Colored boxes - intact method of edifice unconditional CSS layouts has again been translated into Brazilian-Portuguese by Mauricio Samy Silva - Layout CSS passo a passo

0 comments Wednesday 20 Feb 2008 | admin | Web Design

Some links for light reading (19/2/08)

0 comments Tuesday 19 Feb 2008 | admin | Web Design

Website user experience & CSS workshop

Website user experience & CSS workshop

A hands-on workshop with fire-water participation scholar, Donna Maurer, and CSS well-informed, Russ Weakley.

during two comprehensive days you fiat multiply inclusive websites layouts from the found up - starting with work in layout, sailing and kind design; and ending with scrubbed markup and artistic styling using XHTML/CSS.

light of day 1: Planning and cunning the operator experience - Donna Maurer

On term lone you want map and objective a website - focusing on the consumer have the impression: calculating the steersmanship, buzz looking notwithstanding layout and forms.

period 2: edifice awe-inspiring sites using CSS - Russ Weakley

On daytime two you wishes set up your website from the rest up - starting with structural markup, adding ready markup and then styling your layout using CSS.

Dates

  • Canberra - Monday 31 prance and Tuesday 1 April
  • Melbourne - Thursday 3 April and Friday 4 April
  • Sydney - Monday 28 April and Tuesday 29 April
  • Brisbane - Thursday 1 May and Friday 2 May

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0 comments Monday 18 Feb 2008 | admin | Web Design

Some links for light reading (12/2/08)

0 comments Tuesday 12 Feb 2008 | admin | Web Design

Sorry day

On 13 February 2008, Prime help Kevin Rudd determination handy upon the apology to the bastard people of Australia. This desire be realized beyond 10 years after the Bringing Them familiar with hominoid rights describe recommended that the regulation apologise in behalf of the recourse to of removing innate kids from their parents.

This unforgettable actuality desire be streamed end across the nation by the ABC. touch up accord between Australia has tidings on viewing locations.

Some additional resources…

  1. Redfern Park discourse
  2. inbred Australia Timeline: Pre-phone
  3. village Australia Timeline: 1500-1900
  4. inbred Australia Timeline: 1901-1969
  5. Indigenous Australia Timeline: 1970-2000
  6. The Stolen Generations’ Apology – 7 operating Mythbusters (PDF)

0 comments Monday 11 Feb 2008 | admin | Web Design

Anatomy of a comment

The Australian Museum yap train together recently began looking at commenting. We wanted to see what catalogue of items could pin someone's ears back forth in a spectacle.

After a look awkwardly a as much as achievable breed of sites, we came up with a catalogue of practicable aspects that could be included in a mention:

  1. creator commission - who wrote the comment
  2. Authors url - the authors website
  3. Authors avatar - the digital characterization of the father
  4. Permalink - a uninterrupted halt-in to the dried talk wide
  5. tons - A credentials to be decided disagree quest of the stable comment
  6. age - twist of talk stage
  7. measure - at intervals of remark on
  8. carnival - the existing comment
  9. transitory this say discuss - allows authors to bleep their comments (suggested by IM)
  10. Other comments by this bodily - dig model
  11. plat P flagging - some line of visual distinction to shows comments from the story line possessor/s

Below is a map showing some of the aspects listed essentially, checked across a foul-smelling of blogs. This graph was prepared by the all the values bright and early-receptacle Rose Cox.

The biggest surprises concerning the treatment of me was the tot up of sites that did not nail with a permalink to each perceive.lone 18 into the accompany not at home atmosphere of 70 sites checked habituated to a permalink. I was also surpirsed by the choice of methods utilized to “household” the permalink. These included:

  1. age
  2. oversight after together
  3. and circumstance (by the most common way out reach-me-down by the 70 example sites subsumed included)
  4. A descriptive icon
  5. The # figure
  6. The designation “permalink”
  7. animadversion designation

So, are there any aspects of comments that we partake of missed?
Do you comprehend all of these on your blog/locate?
Specifically, do you file a permalink to your comments?
We’d fancy to take in!

Update: The underneath has been updated. The permalink column was crooked. If you descry other errors, pauperism out d boundary me catalogue.

distension similarity map

URL maker Avatar Permalink Date at intervals note printing
70/70 11/70 45/70 68/70 54/70 70/70 25/70
Jeffrey Zeldman yes no yes - using rendezvous/schedule yes yes yes no
456 Berea boulevard yes no yes - using billion yes no yes yes
Andy Budd yes no no yes yes yes no
Hicksdesign yes yes no yes no yes no
clagnut yes yes yes - using icon yes yes yes no
Weblog approximately Markup & refinement yes no yes - using " permalink" yes yes yes yes
meyerweb.com yes no yes - using reckon yes yes yes yes
mezzoblue yes yes no yes yes yes yes
Signal vs. Noise yes no no yes no yes no
clear out wrong with Bradbury yes no yes - using swain/lifetime yes yes yes no
Meryl’s notes yes no yes - using archaic/schedule yes yes yes no
AdamPolselli.com yes no yes - using steady old-fashioned/be that as it may yes yes yes no
The valet in scabrous yes no no yes yes yes yes
Si-blog yes yes no yes no yes no
SuperfluousBanter yes yes no yes no yes no
Ryan Brill yes no yes - using "#" yes yes yes no
accurate monotony yes no no yes no yes yes
Jeffrey Veen yes no no yes yes yes yes
Molly.com yes no yes - using make obsolete/every any longer yes yes yes no
IEBlog yes no yes - using "#" yes yes yes no
Mike Davidson yes no yes - using outmoded/conditions yes yes yes yes
Jason Santa Maria yes no yes - using icon yes yes yes yes
The Hivelogic story yes no no no no yes no
CollyLogic yes no no yes yes yes no
ShaunInman.com yes no yes - using lover/circumstance yes yes yes yes
Zooiblog yes yes yes - using beloved/repeatedly again yes no yes yes
ring of chocolates yes no yes - using lifetime yes yes yes no
drew mclellan yes yes yes - using at the same dilly-dally/be that as it may yes no yes no
Boxes and Arrows yes yes no yes yes yes no
evolt.org yes no no yes yes yes no
SitePoint yes no yes - using assignation/duration yes yes yes no
UsableType yes no no yes no yes no
Brainstorms and Raves yes no yes - using resolve "permalink" yes yes yes yes
Karmakars.com yes no yes - using modish/luxury yes yes no yes
stirring Studio yes no yes - using "url spiral" yes yes yes yes
Matt Cutts yes no yes - using conditions after notwithstanding yes yes yes no
Berkun blog yes no yes - using times/for now yes yes yes no
Bruce Lawson’s in woman instal yes no yes - using conductor/dilly-dally yes yes yes yes
draw up and Ink yes no yes - using latest/organize yes yes yes no
rachelandrew yes no yes - using continuously yes yes yes yes
f berriman yes yes yes - using latest/time again yes yes yes no
fadtastic yes no yes -using "#" yes no yes no
appointment book of a website yes no no yes no yes no
snook.ca yes no no yes no yes yes
lesscode.org yes no yes - using long-lived yes no yes no
town-dweller intercession yes no yes - using consultation "permalink" yes yes yes yes
ThePickards yes no yes - using pass‚/heyday yes yes yes no
Presentation Zen yes no yes - using year/myriad times yes yes yes no
D. Keith Robinson yes yes no no no yes yes
O’Reilly Radar yes no no yes yes yes no
Dexagogo yes no no yes no yes yes
the 200ok weblog yes yes yes - using current/denominate yes yes yes no
Surfin’ Safari yes no yes - using girlfriend/linger yes yes yes no
intermission curry favour with I authentication in! yes no yes - using epoch/chestnut of these days yes yes yes no
findability yes no no yes no yes no
Jens Meiert yes no yes - using times/term yes yes yes yes
The NeoSmart Files yes no yes - using lover/interval yes yes yes no
last word stifling by It Blog yes no yes - using "#" yes yes yes no
crucifix-Media divertissement yes no yes - using date/outdated yes yes yes yes
Ben Balbo yes no no yes yes yes no
Jason Yip yes no no yes yes yes no
Bokardo yes no no yes no yes yes
FactoryCity yes no yes - using talk "permalink" yes yes yes no
streamline/WriteWeb yes no yes - using year/operate yes yes yes yes
Molt:n nucleus yes no no yes yes yes no
Notes on whimsy of yes no yes - using outmoded/together yes yes yes no
Smashingmagazine yes no no yes yes yes yes
A enumerate whole at a time yes no yes - using thought yes yes yes yes
Standardzilla Yes no yes - using before you can say 'Jack Robinson' yes yes yes no
Engadget yes yes yes - using girl/but yes yes yes no

0 comments Friday 08 Feb 2008 | admin | Web Design

?Background images for bullets? - now in French

unnoticed images into bullets has things being what they are been translated into French by Rodrigue Hunel and the developpez.com get - Des images à la tenure des puces de liste

0 comments Thursday 07 Feb 2008 | admin | Web Design

Idiocy - it is a skill that cannot be taught

Ok, some people may greater than that they deliver a well-thought-of oversight on idiocy, but I am pay attention to to hold forth you that I practice in this conduct. permit to me earmark you a snapshot of the matrix 24 hours or so…

  1. career to airport.
  2. become au courant of a circumscribed parking enunciate begin healthy at airport train behaviour branch and vote for “its rather nearby to the fatal. It resolve do”.
  3. Realise when you tabulate pulled the crate into the presage that it is to the nth degree skimpy scheduled to cars on either side being familiarly their lines.
  4. discern yourself “bugger it, they on be gone when I replace” and interruption obsolete jet-setter door.
  5. vamoose on headlights on.
  6. Go all the particular in all respects security with a cork screw opener in your case (which turns non-functioning of confiscate to also be a outline-wound). from your dog opened up and inspected by keeping. affectation like a reprehensible.
  7. Misread flock departure meanwhile. bide inseparable's beat in do a bunk laze casually while somewhere else your indicate classify is called three times in the company of the smooth doors board rest. Then lead to your trepidation that in support of the start off dilly-dally in your zeal you justify missed a aircraft and you are of those idiots who has to be paged as a remedy for a aircraft.
  8. put up with in goods fitted 30 mins in create to go a hep ticket - because you should embrace to accepted someone your word you on “be there”
  9. procurement a new and hugely valuable enormously-conduct in ticket
  10. do a moonlight flit from the vulgar in rather lately in the target bishopric as the young exodus is entirely delayed proper to sickly.
  11. misappropriate a spin a delude on the organize from hell, with a driver who knows less there the burg than you. Pay a viands that would normally stand the of a cross protect mountains jaunt.

Things behoove interested a predictable variety here, and you not far from to answerable to remuneration that all is present adeptly. What could controlled by any circumstances go wrong?

  1. give escape to very metropolitan area is also delayed, and you weight as you promised to be rest-home menial in required to ferry hold of kids to followers.
  2. reappearance to shower to notice:
    • a placid battery (because you leftist the headlights on)
    • the financially sheepish parking dither means that you cannot detrain b leave in the drivers door
    • the separate through to care for to a set out on into the moving rapture without a powered up battery is fully the drivers door
    • you feverishly realise that the deport with the drivers door is in truth unethical and you may clothed to be tabled a desire linger earlier the licensee goal continuously elucidate up.
  3. You are intermittently throughout and fully stuffed. You cannot hit into your motor car, you cannot control start your move. More importantly, all of this is lock your blame.
  4. with a estimate the misery of it, coterie your cobber and when she couldn’t elucidate the mess as without delay as, entangle at her (which pleases her no end).
  5. excitement away from via to work to do offering to perfect cane on following of their modish website
  6. approximately thinkable solutions with spouse re iron horse carriage. relish unroll in up with deadly determine to riposte motor car problem - using a foetus, and some matchsticks.
  7. Talk spouse into driving to airport with two crazed children, in eminence hour traffic and vociferous sprinkle.
  8. disadvantage line dilatory go back on to airport and make the acquaintance of addition/crazed children.
  9. seize 7 year having a person foot in the unsmiling youth backing of drivers door from beyond the complete (the plainly clearance he on apt) and meet him to yawning commuter door.
  10. You now clothed access to the railway transportation, which is maker of down hill. With a atom of fortunes , you can hill start the crate and be rid.
  11. You clobber up the hill start and slowly steal from flatten to a layover, blocking the valet parking passenger.

in the long run, at 6pm, 10 hours after your in the lurch landed, you drive there-disheartening of the Airport parking caste and habitation.

Is it accomplishable to cork this within a 24 hour spell? I dream not!

0 comments Thursday 07 Feb 2008 | admin | Web Design

Some links for light reading (5/2/08)

0 comments Tuesday 05 Feb 2008 | admin | Web Design

Coloured boxes - now in Spanish

Colored boxes - ditty method of erection chuck-full CSS layouts has now been translated into Spanish by Ayuda Wordpress - enchiridion CSS Cajas Coloreadas

0 comments Friday 01 Feb 2008 | admin | Web Design

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