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Time Magazine 50 coolest sites 2006

2006-08-15T13:23:00.000-06:00

http://www.time.com/time/2006/50coolest/index.html

Search podcasts

2006-04-26T11:40:00.000-06:00

This tool searches audio and video:
www.podzinger.com

Neat!

Sample web layouts and navigation schemes

2006-02-22T11:55:00.000-07:00

This is kind of a cookbook for different types of web layouts and navigation schemes. I like the examples and the succinct analyses.

www.welie.com/patterns

iTunes U

2006-02-21T17:27:00.000-07:00

From the National Post:

No more classes, no more books?
Podcasting lectures an American trend coming to Canada

Google music results

2006-02-16T11:11:00.000-07:00

When did they start offering music results? Is this the start of the Google Music store?

AJAX made easy

2006-02-16T11:09:00.000-07:00

Three great "AJAX made easy" sites.

Yahoo has been nice enough to open source their Javascript UI stuff:
http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/

Prototype is a great open source Javascript library:
http://prototype.conio.net/

RICO Javascript library:
http://openrico.org/rico/home.page

Nice demos:
http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Demos

IE 7 Public Beta Released

2006-02-01T14:17:00.000-07:00

For all you Windows users (well it's really only for XP SP2) the long awaited public beta for Internet Explorer 7 has been released.

Download it
Read about it

The 2006 Bloggies

2006-01-25T12:40:00.000-07:00

The Bloggie Awards:
http://2006.bloggies.com/

Logo Design Trends 2005

2006-01-25T12:38:00.000-07:00

www.gdusa.com/issue_2005/04_apr/feature/feat_01.php
from Graphic Design USA

Sharing, tagging and the users' web

2005-12-14T12:16:00.000-07:00

So far we can:

share photos at www.flickr.com
share bookmarks at del.icio.us
search and track the blogosphere with www.technorati.com
share music interests and broadcast songs with www.last.fm
network with friends and bands at www.myspace.com

And now we tell each other where we are and about our locations at Plazes:

http://beta.plazes.com

Good for stalking...

Tagging

2005-12-14T12:10:00.000-07:00

NYTimes article on folksonomy (must login to read):
Folksonomy is a lonely word

Checklists

2005-12-12T16:59:00.000-07:00

Basic (for non-webbies):
http://www.tcnj.edu/~it/usability/checklist.html

Advanced:
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.cfm

css thesis, it's pretty

2005-12-05T13:25:00.000-07:00

thesis.veracon.net

I'm learning about accesskeys...

2005-12-01T15:56:00.000-07:00

And you can too!

Some blog, talks about different standards:
www.clagnut.com/blog/193/

A List Apart:
www.alistapart.com/articles/accesskeys/

Test your fonts on the screen

2005-12-01T09:42:00.000-07:00

Test out how your fonts display at typetester.maratz.com.

Hot Blog!

2005-11-30T13:37:00.000-07:00

Let's make it official. The Department of Computing Science at the U of A is blogging through a redesign, based on advice from the HighEdWebDev conference.

Blog: www.cs.ualberta.ca/~clc13/redesign/

Wish me luck!

Stock photographs

2005-11-28T11:00:00.000-07:00

Free:
stock.xchange
www.sxc.hu

morgueFile
www.morguefile.com

On the cheap, pay-per-photo:
iStockphoto
www.istockphoto.com

Hack-a-palooza

2005-11-28T10:57:00.000-07:00

Break in case of emergency, hacks and to what browsers they apply.

Standards compliant font embedding

2005-11-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

This is an accessible, xhtml compliant, CSS method to embed fonts using javascript and flash 6. It degrades elegantly. The only draw back that I can see is that it loads a little slower and needs javascript and flash. Using it for links doesn't work that well either.

http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/

It is really COOL!

Ian

Testing, testing, 1... 2... 3...

2005-11-24T12:06:00.000-07:00

Our favourite tools and why we love them...

Website developer's toolbar for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application
=firefox&category=Developer%20Tools&numpg=10&id=60
Comes with the W3C validator and the Cynthia report for speed.

Fangs screen reader emulator for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application
=firefox&category=Developer%20Tools&numpg=10&id=402
Read, rather than listen to, screen reader assistive technology.

HTML validator for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application
=firefox&category=Developer%20Tools&numpg=10&id=249

WAI checklist:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html

Sloppy:
http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/
Sloppy simulates various dail-up speeds. Check out how slow your page really is.

JAWS (for Windows):
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/
JAWS_HQ.asp#Downloads
Try the 40 minute demo to listen to your page.

Colour blindness tester:
http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

Colour contrast analyser (for Windows):
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=628

Colleges and Universities using non-classroom podcasts

2005-11-21T10:26:00.000-07:00

http://dan-karleen-aacrao-sem-podcast-talk.blogspot.com/
2005/11/list-of-colleges-and-universities-with.html

Web geeks flock to Flock

2005-11-18T16:31:00.000-07:00

It's the web browser for the ultra-web-geek. Do you have a blog? Do you use Flickr? Do you use del.icio.us? Do you read RSS feeds? Then you should try Flock.

http://www.flock.com/

Gnosh

2005-11-18T12:30:00.000-07:00

www.gnosh.org

Usability advice ... for free

2005-11-18T09:57:00.000-07:00

It seems I have a theme running here.

http://freeusabilityadvice.com/

What is Web 2.0

2005-11-15T15:29:00.000-07:00

i really like o'reilly's explanation of the concepts and the examples he gives.

What Is Web 2.0
Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/
09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Our blog has RSS, btw

2005-11-15T10:11:00.000-07:00

We can subscribe to our own blog. Wow!
It's the wave of the present.

Our feed is at:
http://collectivemontage.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Google Analytics ... for free

2005-11-15T09:11:00.000-07:00

It looks like Google has decided how to use their Urchin acquisition.
http://www.google.com/analytics/

Millenial children, Canadian style

2005-11-14T19:00:00.000-07:00

First there was the Baby Boom. Then came the Baby Bust. And now we have the Baby Boom Echo.

For those of us interested in the Millenial or Baby Boom Echo generation (kids born 1980+) in Canada, David Foote (author of Boom, Bust and Echo and professor of economics at U of T) writes about the Echo and higher education in Ontario.

We are part of the Baby Bust (a massive decrease in births in the 70s), while our current students for the past 5 years are the Millenials/Echo (the children of the Baby Boomers and the reason the minivan was so popular in the 80s).

Baby boom meets baby bust, by David Foote:
www.footwork.com/globe11.html

ALA: Redesign vs. Realign

2005-11-14T18:36:00.000-07:00

Good designers redesign, great designers realign...

For those of us coming to the middle of a realign, this article is gorgeous:
www.alistapart.com/articles/redesignrealign/