January 2009
- Microformats, hAccessibility & Moving Forward
- 01/26/2009
- Last week, Andy Clarke posted a design solution for the hAccessibility issue in microformats. It's an interesting workaround, combining the current standard for marking up dates in microformats with the broadly-accepted use of skip links. But Wait, What Is hAccessibility? Before I get too far into this article, though, I should probably explain hAccessibility. As I've mentioned previously, hAccessibility was coined by The Web Standards Project to describe an accessibility issue related to the use of the abbr design pattern…
- Useful Tweets 12
- 01/25/2009
- Recycled tweets from the previous week that included links to web design resources, interesting products, comics, etc. Follow me on Twitter for more immediate linky goodness.
- Introducing Webuquerque: A Success!
- 01/22/2009
- Last night was the inaugural event for Webuquerque, a new Adobe User Group for New Mexico web practitioners, and it was a great success! Over 25 people attended Introducing Webuquerque to learn about the new NMAUG group and our 2009 schedule, meet some of the presenters and other attendees, and win schwag.
- End of an Error
- 01/20/2009
- “As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” — H.L. Mencken, American journalist, essayist, magazine editor & satirist
- Useful Tweets 11
- 01/19/2009
- Recycled tweets from the previous week that included links to web design resources, interesting products, comics, etc. Follow me on Twitter for more immediate linky goodness.
- Webuquerque: A New Mexico Adobe User Group for Web Professionals
- 01/15/2009
- I'm excited and pleased to announce that I am co-managing a new Adobe User Group for New Mexico's web professionals: Webuquerque. While this is a post to introduce and promote this new group, this is also a personal post. So indulge me while first share some history (or jump to the deets on Webuquerque).
- Useful Tweets 10
- 01/12/2009
- Recycled tweets from the previous week that included links to web design resources, interesting products, comics, etc. Follow me on Twitter for more immediate linky goodness.
- It’s Bacon’s World. We Just Live In It.
- 01/08/2009
- Back in early November 2008, Chris Harrison, Jonathan DeLaigle and I launched BaconTwits, a site that pulls Twitter entries that reference "bacon."
- The State of the Web: Survey Results
- 01/07/2009
- A few weeks ago, the folks from Web Directions and Scroll Magazine launched The State of the Web 2008, a new (hopefully annual) survey to help collect data about the industry and its professionals. The results are now in.
- Useful Tweets 9
- 01/05/2009
- With the end–of–year holidays, which I spent in Seattle, I didn't tweet my normal (excessive?) amount of "useful" tweets. As such, and because I'm busy writing some fresh content for A Blog Not Limited, I'm combining tweets for the past two weeks into this single post. And, as always, you can follow me on Twitter to get more immediate linky goodness.
- New Year’s Resolution
- 01/01/2009
- “Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.” — Dan McKinnon, Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist & historian