I’m a customer of Aldi locally, since it’s great to go in a store and not have to walk a mile to find the three things you need when you’re in a hurry, unlike the big box supermarkets that I hate with a passion for that reason. Aldi in Easton PA is a friendly place […]

The IE 8 Beta is out.
There is already buzz about it, since IE8 passes Acid 2, supposedly. Of course, that’s a step behind already, since Acid 3 was just released. And according to the Slashdotters, IE8 only scores 17 on Acid 3, compared to the most recent stable version of Firefox, which scores 50 on […]

Zi pointed me at a great article which lays out a toolkit for building accessible forms.
There are also some other tutorials and helper pages on the web to help in achieving form markup that will allow people using assistive technology to fill out your forms. I dug in my bookmarks and came up with […]

The Illinois Center for Information Technology Accessibility has released the latest version of the FireFox Accessibility Extension Add-On. I just installed it and did a couple site evaluations. It just confirmed the fact that this site is way overdue for an overhaul, which is currently in process. My newer sites came up much better in […]

An article on Slashdot about the recommendation of SPARQL to release candidate status just featured a great page of links to presentations put together by Ivan Herman of the W3, and on all aspects of The Semantic Web. They range from info put in very simple terms as an overview of what it is to […]

A List Apart has a great article on what’s coming in HTML 5, which throws out a lot of the current tag syntax and gives us more semantic structural markup via the DOM. It will also allow a more streamlined markup with a lot of cruft cut out and simplified. There will be a lot […]

I just got done reading the SiteProNews Newsletter, which this month features an article on Fonts and market branding. I won’t deny that there’s great information here, and in general the content is high quality. But it’s just as obvious to me that Erin Ferree, the author, is first and foremost, a print weenie. What […]

We now have another web standards compliant option for browsing in Windows– Safari! And I like it, so far.
Apparently there was some bug infestation the first few days, so I waited a couple weeks after launch to download, and yes, there were some bugfixes since it was initially released. The specs require WinXP, but I’ve […]

People come to me for certain types of webwork, mostly based on the type of templating I’ve done in the past– WordPress, ModX, Joomla, Movable Type, Cubecart, Zencart, TextPattern . . . maybe a few others. But I also build an occasional site for myself. And I’ve got an idea for a site I want […]

The best and most bulletproof layouts using css are float layouts, and to take that another step, the best layouts for SEO are floated negative margin source ordered layouts. But these layouts have one downside that a lot of designers don’t deal with– they don’t print well at all.
How do you turn a floated layout […]

MIT Technology Today has posted part two of their look into where the future of the Web is headed.
The article goes into a lot more detail about how the Semantic Web allows researchers to build the tools that organize information that is currently unorganized, using Artificial Intelligence that can actually correlate bits and bobs of […]

After our interesting discussion yesterday about protecting the future of the Web, it’s kismet that I would run into this article from the MIT Technology Review that speculates the future of the web, aka Web 3.0, and the groundwork being done now by the transition to the Semantic Web.
The article posits that the Semantic Web […]