Finally an accessible way to render text within your designs with out having to use flash/images with alt tags or JS with descriptors.
Cufon is a way to “render” your text on screen giving you cleaner looking fonts – i have put together a working example here
I wouldn’t use this with p tags or anything below [...]
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Google has just released our something similar to my browser chrome entry although it is live working version of browser resolutions.
Through this tool you can view your site live with guides on where screen resolutions start and finish
http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/
It isn’t too bad although this would mean that your site would have to be live before you’d [...]
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The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Mobile Web Application Best Practices. The goal of this document is to aid the development of rich and dynamic mobile Web applications. It collects the most relevant engineering practices, promoting those that enable a better [...]
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So you want to tell the world everything you do? Seems that people are tweeting about all sort of stuff… i am not a massive fan but have had some clients who want there own look and feel.
I have put together a multilayer photoshop document so you can see what i belive is best practice [...]
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Just found a web service that allows you to send large files up to 2Gb
http://www.mailbigfile.com/pro/
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Sick of Alt Print screen? not a fan of paying for Viso? Just stumbled on these awesome Firefox add-ons which can replace Viso and print screening…
Screen capture – Aviary
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11587
Viso replacement – Pencil
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8487
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It might not be a facebook killer as it has some limitations at this stage although any new products out there do cause the current main stream apps to rethink what they do… Hopefully this doesn’t lead to facebook having another interface change.
(this is first product i have notice from google with out the word [...]
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Just found this lovely little toolbar add on for Firefox to test accessibility.
http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar
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For the development Sydney New Year’s Eve web site they wanted the abiliity to be able to add alearts to the site via multiple entry points (web, sms, web phone).
With limited time and no budget also i really didn’t want to build something from scratch (more so why would you?) i took twitter and [...]
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Another consideration when designing a web site is what size do you design for? The type of site and who it is for will determine most of this although in general you should have ready made up standards.
My rule of thumb is to design for screen resolutions of 1024 x 768 although make sure you [...]
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Welcome to my online portfolio which highlights some of my work over the past 12 years while working in IT as an Interface Designer.
I have just started to put some of my code up to give something back to the online community - on the right and completely free to use as you will.
Got any questions? you can contact me
> here.
Cheers - Hamish Beattie.