Blue Beanie Day – A Day for Web Standards

November 18, 2007

Yes, it's rather embarrassing, but I admit it. I have a Facebook account. Though I resisted for a long time, I was recently convinced to join Facebook to participate in a birthday prank for a friend. Oh well, another social time sink. On Facebook today, I was invited to join a group called "Blue Beanie [...]

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When the Legend Won't Wrap – One Solution

November 5, 2007

I've just returned from over six weeks on the road (12 locations all over the globe). Needless to say, I've been scarce around these parts of late. I'm hoping to start remedying that. While attending one of the conferences, I was discussing creative, problem-solving techniques with an attendee, and mentioned a method I'd recently employed [...]

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Meet Me in the Wild–Upcoming Conferences

July 25, 2007

Come out and meet me! There are some upcoming events in September and October where I'll be speaking and I'd love for you to come say hi. On September 21 and 22, I'll be at Web Master Jam Session in Dallas, TX. I'm speaking on semantic HTML and CSS–the building blocks of a site. Jonathon [...]

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New Guillotine case in Internet Explorer (IE7)… Or not!

July 6, 2007

Yes, it's a fact that Internet Explorer 7 is better than Internet Explorer 6. But not all squashed bugs were completely killed. Like the little gopher game you play at the fair, sometimes when you bang one on the head and it goes underground, it simply pops back out in a different place. Enter the [...]

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reCAPTCHA – Simple and Accessible

June 16, 2007

For anyone who knows me well, the most shocking part of this post is that I actually, finally, put my own web site up. Yes, after 2 years of “Coming Soon,” I've actually launched my site focued on training, speaking and coding. One of the things I learned (which I knew, taught, but obviously wasn't [...]

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TODCon Schedule Online!

May 8, 2007

We've finally got the TODCon Vegas 2007 schedule and speaker list up. Check it out. Lots of excellent sessions about the new Adobe products, running your web business, usability, CSS and more. There's still time to register for the best little conference in Vegas! Come play on the strip with the rest of us geeks. [...]

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Custom CS3 Icons – Free!

April 21, 2007

There's been a wide range of reaction to Adobe's new CS3 icons. Admittedly, when I first saw the single Dreamweaver icon, I was taken aback — “Is this thing finished?” But after seeing the whole suite, especially on the color wheel, I thought they were nicely done and easy to differentiate as I got a [...]

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Adobe MAX 2007 Announced – Chicago Baby

February 28, 2007

In case you missed it — the announcement has been made and the blogosphere is abuzz – Adobe MAX 2007 will be in Chicago from September 30 to Oct 3 2007. Mark your calendars and corner the boss – it's time to make plans! Ben Forta has worldwide MAX dates/events in today's blog post. 

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CSS and Design Resources

January 5, 2007

Sometimes I get a bit behind on my Community MX reading and have to catch up in one fell swoop. This morning, I was having a look at the past few articles and found a most awesome resource that Sheri German put together. Though we're in the midst of a site redesign (yes, we know [...]

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CSS, AJAX, Mashups, Microformats, Standards and Broken Bones

November 28, 2006

If you get the CMX newsletter, you may have read the blurb about the upcoming Web Directions North conference. This is the sister conference to the awesome Web Essentials/Web Directions conference that has happened down under for the past few years — the one that I've been so jealous not to be able to attend. [...]

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