I’m very excited to announce that the site I was referring to in an earlier post about Guerrilla Accessibility has finally launched. It’s the first in a series of sites we’re building for Marriott Vacation Club International, called Marriott Villas.
Just a quick note to my future self. Yesterday was the day I gave a presentation on “Web Standards and Accessibility” to some folks at work. Had a very good mix of people in a small group of about 6. I talked too much and had too many slides (as usual), but I think it [...]
I’m exploring the functionality of a new Nucleus CMS plugin, called “FancyText” which converts things like quotes, smilies, and some HTML elements into more stylish versions.
For the past 12 hours or so I’ve been debating about even adding a post about this. But I think it’s good to finally admit it… lately I have been suffering from iPod envy. You see, about a year and a half ago I bought a Creative Labs Jukebox Zen Xtra MP3 player. And I’ve [...]
Over the weekend, we were glued to the TV set keeping an eye on the path of Hurricane Rita. Fortunately, we didn’t experience much more in Dallas than some moderately high wind and ominous grey storm clouds. In the late afternoon on Saturday I went out on the patio with my camcorder to catch some [...]
Well, I’ve gotta say that creating sites with purely CSS-based layouts (table-less) is… well… really hard! It’s not so much a problem marking up the content with valid, semantic XHTML code and styling that page with CSS. It’s just that things start to go haywire when I start to add the structure of the page [...]
I had an interesting experience this afternoon. While I was shopping for produce at my local Whole Foods (health food store), my brother, who lives in Australia, called my mobile phone. He had some CSS coding questions.
There have been many online resources that I’ve found extremely valuable over the past couple of years of learning about Web standards development. I thought I’d take some time and share them—with you and with myself for later reference.
I was having some difficulties with the header throughout the site. If you increased the text size quite a bit (to simulate what a visually impaired user might experience), the main navigation links along the top-right of the window would cover up the logo on the left.
I have an interesting couple of projects that I’m working on these days. One project involves creating and giving a presentation on “Web Standards and Accessibility.” The other project involves building HTML templates for a client who is requesting the site be built with nested tables and spacer graphics (no CSS-based layouts, please). In other [...]