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Designers: Revealed
Dan Saffer helps the world understand designers.
Beginner's CSS Guide
New to CSS? Here is a fantastic guide to starting out with CSS.
Aligning Things Vertically-Center with CSS
This isn’t as easy to do as it sounds. Horizontally center, easy; Vertically-center, tricky. Here’s a shot at a solution.
Insurance Design
Here’s a site design that takes the painfully boring topic of insurance and makes it fun.
Link Dump
Apple, From the Inside
A former Apple employee compares his time there to time at other companies.
IE7: Solid Browser or Ford Pinto?
Read/Write Web explores question with Opera’s CTO Håkon Wium Lie.technorati tags:ie7
Top 10 Firefox Web 2.0 Add-ons
Read/Write Web’s Top 10 Firefox Web 2.0 Add-ons
Adobe - Flash Tenth Anniversary
Flash is Ten years old! Flash back at the Flash anniversary site.
Microformats at Digital-Web
Here’s another one of those things that I know I need to learn and start using, and haven’t. The Big Picture on Microformats
Steal This Video
Where do you stand on software/video piracy? I don’t know anybody that’s all for it, but we all seem to have a line that we think is all right to cross. This video compares piracy to things that are pretty absurd…
WebWag
WebWag is another AJAX-driven start page. Looks great.
Digital Web Magazine - News - Article: The Big Picture on Microformats
Digital Web Magazine - News - Article: The Big Picture on Microformats: You've heard the buzz about microformats, and you've probably been meaning to use them on your sites—perhaps they're sitting somewhere near the bottom of your list of things to do. In his new article, John Allsopp gives us a snapshot of what's happening with microformats today, and he challenges us all to move them closer to the top of the pile.
Bytespring CMS FAQ
Bytespring is a content management system built in ColdFusion. Jason Sheedy has posted a FAQ
Vuedo
I haven’t posted for a couple of days, but it’s not because I haven’t been blogging. Several months ago I started to move forward with creating a site where video tutorials could be shared. I had gotten frustrated with the cost of commercial services for what they were offering, while at the same time depressed by the free alternatives. Chris Pultz and I each created one series of videos to get started, and neither of us got further than that.
Links for 8/24/06
Ted On Flex - Introducing FlexTV Geotagging Photos with Flock Interview with George Moore, GM Windows Live Digital Web Magazine - News - New Accessibility Book
ColdFusion and PDF Forms
Ben has a new article up on the Adobe developer center regarding using PDF Forms with ColdFusion MX7. While he notes that these abilities pale in comparison to what will be possible with Scorpio (Next major version of ColdFusion) they offer some things that could be useful now. The two uses that he illustrates is populating a PDF form with database data AND extracting form data from a PDF form. It requires a custom tag, but looks to be very easy once in place.
Links for 8/23/06
mentalaxis » Badgr 2.0 … Bigger images? You got it! Berners-Lee Disses Web 2.0 Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog: Canvas ColdFusion Wiki NY Times Getting more people to your blog : The Bit Bucket: The Blog of Lucas Sherwood macZOT! » Mac Pilot - Customize Your System Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » SEO Advice: Writing useful articles that readers will love
Social Web?
An article on Vitamin today discussed why the author does not use social sites. The ending argument was that the author didn’t have time for their own work and they certainly didn’t have time to be social on one of these new sites.
I understand where they are coming from and have felt this myself from time to time.