Posts Tagged: Web Development
Taking our struggle with CSS font sizes public
Posted by on Monday, January 6, 2003 in - 12 comments
Those readers not interested in web design issues, please pardon this post. For the rest of you, the following is a series of posts I made on the corporate intranet at work. We've been struggling with CSS font-size issues. It's nothing original, but it is my hope that posting the explanation of …
Bullet lists of Good and Evil
Posted by on Sunday, December 29, 2002 in
I'm working on getting out of this glass house so I can throw more stones. In the meantime, a great pet-peeve of mine is bullet lists that don't indent properly when lines wrap. • A stupid bullet list: • “ • • Divitias alius fuluo sibi congerat auro et teneat culti iugera multa soli,quem …
Wired sets the standard(s)
Posted by on Friday, October 11, 2002 in - 10 comments
I'm sure you'll see this on every weblog around in the next few days, but I thought it was worth posting here in light of my open letter on CSS and the response it got. Wired News has completely redesigned their entire in standards compliant XHTML/CSS. It looks great, you can re-size the fonts in …
An Experiment in AudioBlogging
Posted by on Monday, September 2, 2002 in - 12 comments
“ • Listen to this post • 3:29 MP3 File (1.59MB) • ” • I did a reading in a wedding once - another story altogether - and was told after the ceremony by nice old man that I had a good radio voice. Ever since, I've been waiting and hoping for an excuse to tell people what I hit I was. I got …
Excuse me Microsoft, the people have a beef.
Posted by on Monday, August 19, 2002 in - 8 comments
Well-known figures of web development are calling out to Microsoft. The complaint is that Microsoft's Internet Explorer on Windows doesn't let users resize fonts if they are specified in pixels with stylesheets. I'm not going to go into the details of the feature here, but it is an important …
Jakob Nielsen on Flash
Posted by on Monday, June 3, 2002 in - 5 comments
After his now infamous (and totally fair) October, 2000 column, Flash: 99% Bad, usability dude Jakob Nielsen and his Nielsen Norman Group, are joining up with MacroMedia to help product usability guidelines for Flash developers (see the press release). • Jakob cites usability improvements in the …
500 Acts of Volition
Posted by on Monday, May 6, 2002 in - 3 comments
This post is the 500th post on aov since its inception almost two years ago on August 25, 2000. • A few stats: • There has been an average of 0.8 posts per day, or an average of one post every 29 hours. • Since the site has been opened up for reader replies on April 20, 2001, a little over a …
Steven's Guide to Real Estate Jargon
Posted by on Saturday, May 4, 2002 in - 23 comments
I've been looking for a house for the past month or two and I've learned a few things about real estate jargon that might be helpful for anyone looking to take on an enormous amount of debt. • You might want to print off this handy legend and take it with you when you talk to real estate agents …
The Resurection of Kaliber10000
Posted by on Saturday, April 20, 2002 in - 16 comments
I owe these guys - they taught me a lesson that was key to the success of Acts of Volition: never promise anything. No regular content, no deadlines, nothing. • Kaliber10000 (aka k10k) was an enormously popular (enough to have backlashes) web design 'portal' (I'm sorry to use the word portal …
Wired is, uh, wired.
Posted by on Saturday, April 20, 2002 in - 4 comments
I was given a subscription to Wired Magazine this Christmas and I agree that it's been great recently (see comments by Jason Kottke & Jason Levine). • In an interesting move, they have published the entire contents of the latest issue online - not samples, not just the lead story - every word …