News : December 2003
New Issue of Digital Web Magazine
Happy New Year everyone!
Blogging for Business
Andy Arikawa, of The Daily Flight, has put together a Year End PDF
It sounds like Matt Haughey has been pondering some Social Software ideas
It was not too long ago that I received an email from an alleged reader of Digital Web Magazine complaining about how we don't use Accesskeys
Keith makes some great points in his post Web Of Misinformation
A question posted on Web-Graphics has started a marathon of comments. The question is Do we code or not?
Well, if you are getting tired of all this endless talk and news about CSS, there is hope yet. It's time to talk about good old fashioned tables and what they are intended to be used as. Here is a great tutorial on Advanced Tables
What a better way to kick off the holidays than with a review of online shopping sites. Andy King has done just that in his study called Slow Shopping Sites Delay Santa: Scrooge Response Times
Keith asks some interesting questions about Blog Searching and goes so far as to even suggest that there is no hard and fast rules for web design
Nick Bradbury informs us that FeedDemon 1.0
If there is one thing that a well designed web site should never do, it is go unnoticed. Thankfully the SXSW Interactive Web Awards
Just one more week until I take my winter vacation, but that doesn't mean we stop publishing. In this week's new issue of Digital Web Magazine
Much ado about relationships - Eric Meyer has announced XFN (XHTML Friends Network)
You may remember me mentioning OWL a short while ago. Well it appears that OWL (OWL Web Ontology Language
In the last week or so there has been much talk within the web community about fixed vs. liquid web design. Take a moment to first familiarize yourself with the threads: StopDesign, PhotoMatt, 9Rules, Clagnut, Sidesh0w. Being someone who helped encourage the use of liquid web design back in 1999, I have a few opinions on the matter. We have all seen the question come up on mailing lists: what screen size should I design for?
The Apple Developer Connection has posted a nice little crash course titled Best Web Development: Best Practices
Clagnut discusses his new implementation of a Font-Style Switcher
Visibone is running a font survey
Dave Shea makes some excellent points about the Gilder/Levin image replacment method in his post "Accessible Image Replacement
Also today a new issue of A List Apart
A new issue of Boxes and Arrows
Well, there is a lot of good news to announce this in addition to another new issue of Digital Web Magazine
WaSP translates Francois Nonnenmacher's article Web Standards for Business
Want to learn how to do web design that makes sense architectually? Christina Wodtke has created a great resource called Widgetopia
Westciv has begun their free online CSS courses
Here is another Image Replacement
Dave Shea asks where you go to get up to date Browser Stats
D. Keith Robinson makes some good points about Web Design - The Ultimate Balancing Act
If there is one person in this industry who can tell you Definitively what is and isn't valid CSS, it is Eric Meyer. We hope that this expertise can be handed down generation after generation as late last night Eric and Kat have announced the arrival of Carolyn Maxwell Meyer
Leonard Lin has collected a nice list of meta-blog sites
Blog Search Engine has posted the Blogging Survey Results
Issue 165 of A List Apart
Delayed flights and lag time are common at the airport, but you wouldn't expect the same of a web site. Andy King reviews some of the top travel sites including Expedia.com, Orbitz.com, and Travelocity.com in his report: Overweight Travel Sites Delay Holiday Travelers
Who better to square up aginst Jim Coudal, the king of Photoshop Tennis, in a fight over the lightbox at Veer
It is now officially winter and the cold weather outside makes it a good time for those indoor projects. Something a lot of sites have been meaning to do is to implement globalization. Thankfully we have Ken Westin to write a great article about how to implement Web Globalization On A Local Budget
A new issue of First Monday
The World Wide Web Consortium
I am sure most of you have heard about the three-click rule
It appears that our good friend, Dave Shea, is looking for work
Joe Gillespie makes some good points about Advertisements on the Web
