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Entries from August 2005

Styling Web forms

August 25th, 2005 · No Comments

One of the problem with web sites is creating accessible and yet good looking forms for selecting and entering data.
The following links are some good sites to use:

Style Web Forms Using CSS
Forms Accessibility
Accessible forms: Guidelines, examples and accessible JavaScript tricks
CSS Forms
General rules for web forms
Making accessible forms part 1
Creating Accessible Forms
Better Accessible Forms

These are just [...]

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Tags: Accessibility · Javascript · Usability · Web Links

Hints on publishing articles

August 25th, 2005 · No Comments

One of the problems of getting used to using a Blog system (or similar) is that you need to learn a few things to get past some of the errors that we all make at the start.

These errors include:

very long articles on home page
not being aware on how to break over two pages
poor spelling and [...]

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Tags: General

Differences between JPG, GIF and PNG

August 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

One of the things to look at when creating a style and production guide is the use of the correct graphic format.

If you look at the graphics below you will see some quite interesting differences between them. The red, green and blue in the centre of the image are at 50% alpha transparency. Shadows are [...]

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Tags: Design · General · Testing

Student Free Days – 1 & 2 September 2005

August 22nd, 2005 · No Comments

NOTICE:
Due to two training days on the 1 and 2 September 2005 we will be having student free days on these days.

There will be no classes held, but you will have work to complete in the time that you would be in class.

For more information as to why this is happening and how you are [...]

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Tags: Notices

Web design for mobile devices

August 19th, 2005 · No Comments

Taken from the site “Authentic Boredom” comes the following extract …
Think the mobile web finally has some legs to it? Or think it’s a folly not ready for prime time? Feel free to take sides, but don’t take issue with a topic most of us will inevitably face now or in the not-so-distant future.
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Tags: Design · General · Web Links