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Busy, busy weekend. I didn’t get a chance to write this on Friday, so I'll get right to it. This is what entertained me this week: Accessible can be Beautiful There is no reason for people to not make a site accessible. So make it happen people. Evolve Your User Interface To Educate Your Users I love those little tips like these examples when you are using a well designed web application. Browser…

I cannot wait until Tuesday. I have been talking for about 2 years now about getting an Apple laptop, and I think the time has finally come. Depending on what is announced at MacWorld on Tuesday, I will most likely be ordering a brand spanking new Macbook on Wednesday. I'm so excited, that I feel like a little kid on Christmas. Ok, well I guess here is the stuff that I found interesting this week.…

As I have noted in previous posts: Using Dean Edwards’ IE7 Script, The Ultimate PNG Guide, I am a big advocate of the Dean Edwards’ IE7 scripts. Thankfully, Dean has improved them even more. Instead of having a ton of different JavaScript files with large file sizes, he has compressed them into two light-weight JavaScript files. The are now two scripts, IE7.js and IE8.js, and they are hosted on Go…

I’m glad this week is over. You know, it really didn’t feel like a short week, I guess it’s because I worked on Monday. Well here are the interesting links I found: Edit area Really cool JavaScript that formats code. I could really use this as I am typing this post. I hate not being able to indent my list items. Check out the demonstration. Reflections of an Interface Designer Really good reflecti…

I had to go to the FedEx website to track a package this week, and I was pretty disappointed. While, I was able to track my package, I was surprised to see that the little tracking box was built in Flash. You can see the exact box that I am talking about in the image that follows. So I thought, whatever it’s done in Flash, I’m sure they have an HTML equivalent if someone does not have the Flash pl…

Well, I hope everyone had a nice holiday break. I only worked 2 days this week, and there weren’t many good links that I could find since most people were enjoying the holidays. I have finally recovered from my busy week at work, and I only have the last 15 days of 24 Ways to read. I think I’m going to cherish them though, since we have to wait a whole year for it again. Anyways, these are the int…

I would say one of the coolest things in web development/design is the creative use of PNGs. Although, it’s a little hard because of the way that IE6 handles them. I have already written about Using Dean Edwards’ IE7 Script, but I wanted to take it a step further and talk more about PNGs. To Review First, download the Dean Edwards script. Next, extract the files to the root of your webserver in a…

Damn I have been busy! So I missed a week of the weekly link round-up. Last weekend I had 2 holiday parties to go to, football to watch, and Christmas presents to buy. Not only that, but I have been extremely busy with freelance work and work at my full time job. So busy that I had well over 200 feeds to read! So after a quick skim of my feeds, this is what I found link worthy in the past 2 weeks.…

Yeah, so I didn’t get a chance to post last night because I was at the Wizards game. I’ve still got some clean-up to do on the redesign, which I hope to take care of this weekend. Here is what I found interesting this week. 24 Ways It’s that time of the year again, 24 Ways to Impress Your Friends, already on day 8! If you haven’t read the previous years, I would definitely recommend doing it Flot…

So while I was redesigning my site, I needed somewhere to develop the new design. I didn’t want to have to setup a sub-domain on the live site because that would be a pain to have to FTP files up everytime I changed something. So I installed XAMPP on my computer. Basically, XAMPP is a all in one Apache web server. It installs Apache, PHP, MySQL…everything I needed. Once you install it, you get a w…