{"id":341,"date":"2003-09-08T14:47:12","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guyweb.co.uk\/?p=341"},"modified":"2003-09-08T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T14:47:12","slug":"web-design-linkfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/2003\/09\/08\/web-design-linkfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Web design Linkfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since this site has been down a number of exciting web design related links have cropped up:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoral.co.uk\/\">The Coral<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>The most accessible site ever&#8230; or not? Great band though.<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mezzoblue.com\/secondvoice\/\">A second voice<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>A new mezzoblue spin-off containing thought-provoking articles on css, (x)html, semantics and accessibility.<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopdesign.com\/log\/2003\/09\/03\/absolute.html\">Making absolute relative<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Making the absolute relative. The theory behind this often used method of CSS positioning.<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessify.com\/articles\/attractive-accessible-sites.asp\">Attractive yet accessible sites<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Attractive, accessible web sites. Disproving the myth of ugly.<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/onceuponatimeinmexico\/site\/mexico.html\">Outstanding web trailer<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>When the flash movie loads, click on the third bullett point on the left and be amazed and scratch your head as to how the designer managed to embed a proper trailer into a flash movie and then screw around over the top of it. Insane and brilliant.<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maccessibility.com\/archive\/000843.php\n\">Web designers and JAWS<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Disconnect your monitor and use JAWS exclusively for computer access for at least a week, preferably a month.<\/dd>\n<dd>Remember, JAWS is software meant for the blind end user, and it often takes that long &#8212; if not longer! &#8212; to master the software. And without mastering the software, you&#8217;re likely to run into serious problems when testing your Web pages.<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mezzoblue.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mezzo\/archives\/000248.asp\n\">All that&#8217;s wrong with the Jaws petition<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Now the thing about having people you respect tell you when you&#8217;re wrong is that it really sinks in. The recent JAWS petition has drawn criticism. Many have gone on record denouncing it, some more vociferously than others.<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.incutio.com\/archive\/2003\/09\/02\/showLessErrors\n\">A better W3C validator<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>The W3C Validator team are seeking help with the latest version of their validator, dubbed the &#8220;Zeldman Made Us Do It!&#8221; release. They want people to play with the beta and submit suggestions for error messages that would make more sense to the average user. They also have a new feature called &#8220;fussy mode&#8221; which acts a bit like a lint tool for checking code, highlighting problems that aren&#8217;t necessarily illegal markup but may not be best practise techniques.<\/dd>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-web.com\/features\/feature_2003-08.shtml\">Effective CSS use of images as headers<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>The CSS-based background image replacement technique, also known as Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR), is a vital cornerstone of all future Web design.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this site has been down a number of exciting web design related links have cropped up: The Coral The most accessible site ever&#8230; or not? Great band though. A second voice A new mezzoblue spin-off containing thought-provoking articles on css, (x)html, semantics and accessibility. Making absolute relative Making the absolute relative. 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