http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/ en-us 2006-09-27T13:18:32+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000940.html Recently Chris Messina posted The Future of White Boy clubs, prompted by the all white male line-up at the "Future of Web Apps Summit" in San Francisco, There’s something important here that needs to be impressed upon us white boys... dezwozhere 2006-09-27T13:18:32+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000939.html Tomorrow, web designers and developers from around Australia will converge in Sydney for our very own annual web standards conference, Web Directions South. For those of us already in the "web standards" milieu, it becomes very easy to become complacent,... design:issues dezwozhere 2006-09-26T22:03:20+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000938.html A List Apart Issue 221 is out. Derek Powazek's Where Am I? offers three simple guidelines for better global navigation whilst Amber Simmons' Gentle Reader, Stay Awhile; I Will Be Faithful offers excellent advice on engaging readers to keep them... design:issues dezwozhere 2006-08-08T18:31:19+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000937.html Peter Paul Koch releases Browser detect 2.0 but with several words of caution, I hesitated for almost a day before publishing it. I'm afraid that amateur web developers will take the function and abuse it...There are legitimate uses of browser... design:issues dezwozhere 2006-07-26T20:07:32+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000936.html Russ Weakley has updated his article Styling abbreviations and acronyms (See also this post sent to the Web Standards Group which is the basis for the article. This is a topic that occasionally confuses me and Russ's article does a... design:issues dezwozhere 2006-07-25T18:17:41+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000935.html In Professionalism and Best Practice in Web Design and Development, John Allsopp foreshadows a forthcoming detailed proposal for a set of best practices, A professional web designer and developer understands best practices in their field, among them the use of... design:issues dezwozhere 2006-07-25T17:54:27+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000934.html New in A List Apart Issue 220... Walter Stevenson's Designing Through the Storm offers suggestions on staying productive and creative, while from Digital Web's Assistant Managing Editor, Mike West, delivers I Wonder What This Button Does, an excellent piece on... design:tips&techniques dezwozhere 2006-07-25T17:33:36+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000933.html Via Digital Media Minute, IBM developerWorks presents a 5 part series by Brett McLaughlin on Mastering Ajax, Part I - Introduction to Ajax Part II - Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax Part III - Advanced requests and responses... design:tips&techniques dezwozhere 2006-07-24T02:46:48+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000932.html A few cheat sheets doing the rounds: RubyOnRails-Cheatsheet a web developers cheat sheet list Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers Blogging Cheatsheets for Blogger, TypePad, WordPress and Movable Type Meanwhile .net magazine (have you pop-up blocker enabled!)... design:tips&techniques dezwozhere 2006-07-24T02:14:29+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000931.html design:tips&techniques dezwozhere 2006-07-23T14:39:36+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000930.html In Dvorak and CSS, John Allsopp delivers an excellent response to John Dvorak's recent critique of CSS, Dvorak's ignorant, largely incoherent trolling only bolsters the attitudes of those who hold out against adopting a technology that is well designed, works... dezwozhere 2006-07-20T18:21:18+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000929.html Prompted by Bjoern Hoehrmann's reasons for leaving the W3C, Jeffrey Zeldman weighs in on the W3C's trajectory in An angry fix, Beholden to its corporate paymasters who alone can afford membership, the W3C seems increasingly detached from ordinary designers and... webWatch dezwozhere 2006-07-18T18:27:30+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000928.html Garrett Dimon's My Process from Comp to Page presents a nice production methodology: Create a Reusable Framework Markup Open Browsers Write some CSS Validate Again Scripting Meanwhile, Via his DOM Scripting Blog, Jeremy Keith has made available the slides and... dezwozhere 2006-07-14T23:40:22+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000927.html In which our Dez spends the better part of four hours in a hospital bed reviewing his online presence. about dezwozhere 2006-07-11T21:53:44+10:00 http://www.dezwozhere.com/blog/archives/000926.html design:tips&techniques dezwozhere 2006-07-11T19:38:13+10:00