• CSS-Only Forms That Don’t Suck
  Great looking form layout using CSS
  (tags: accessibility css design web-design usability)
• The Man in Blue > JSCalc: the JavaScript calculator bookmarklet
  Similar to Calq - but its a bookmarklet. Javascript to the rescue once again!
  (tags: javascript)

I know there are some of you who only use RSS to read this site…and thats fine. But now its time to crawl out of the RSS hole you live in and experience this site through a browser (preferably Firefox - but it’ll work in anything).

There are quite few reasons for the new look - the main one being I was sick of the old one. Here are some other factors:

• I discovered Josef Muller-Brockman and had to try out the giant sans-serif thing.
• My wordpress install was hacked to bits so I couldn’t upgrade. I started on a fresh install with a fresh look.
• My old host totally sucked so i switched to a new local host that I’m totally totally stoked with (Thanks for all the work, Quintin).
• Now that delicious automatically posts my daily links to this blog I wanted a way to separate them from the rest of the posts. This design achieves that.
• I wanted to use a weighted category list to give the user an at-a-glance idea of what this website is about.

So here you have it - the all new dontcom.com. It’s written in strict semantic XHTML1.0 and CSS2/CSS3. It is as accessible as I could get it without testing - so if you notice anything weird please let me know.

There are a million other things I’d like to ad and tweak and as time goes by you may notice things tightening up a little.

Oh - and one last thing before I go - happy Winter Solstice New Zealand!

• Digital Web Magazine - The Principles of Design
  (tags: design web-design)
• mp3act - Streaming MP3 Jukebox AJAX Web Application
  The mp3act digital music system is designed to be a central location for your digital music collection and a means to easily organize and listen to your digital media through your stereo, over a local network, or anywhere in the world.
  (tags: javascript ajax software music)
• Google Guide Quick Reference
  Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
  (tags: google)
• Homebrew Air Conditioning
  Cant be arsed buying a real aircon? Just make your own!
  (tags: misc)
• RMail
  Convert RSS feeds into real live email!
  (tags: internet)
• How to Save the World
  (tags: blogs seo)

• Who Will Google Buy Next? || kuro5hin.org
  Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. This article asks: what tech gems are in the running for Google’s growing subsidiary menagerie?
  (tags: google software internet)
• Electronic Program Guide
  A nicely layed out New Zealand TV guide.
  (tags: new-zealand)
• Content with Style: Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps
  How to make AJAX play nicely with your browser buttons
  (tags: ajax css javascript usability)

• Web Standards Group - Auckland WSG Meeting - June
  We’ve organised an informal meeting of Auckland web standards enthusiasts.
  (tags: web-standards new-zealand)
• jlassen: When Bears Growl (Or how I become the subject of a Secret Service Investigation)
  The FED are monitoring Flickr. Pricks.
  (tags: art flickr photography americans)

It really saddens me when web designers/developers release a new design to the web and fail to build it using modern day markup.

Telecom, I’m talking to you. Its 2005, not 1998. Web browsers have come a long way since the dawn of the web. Please please try and keep up.

Telecom has just launched a new design for Whitepages.co.nz. Its not all that bad looking. Much like the old site but with rounded corners.

This site is aimed at a massive audience - all of New Zealand; from your rural farmer to your inner-city web geek. You’d expect a website with such a massive audience to be accessible…HA! You’d be wrong!

View the site in Internet Explorer - like the most of the country would. Try to increase the font size. Notice how nothing happens? How is my poor almost-blind granny going to be able to read the ever-so-small text? I’ll tell you. She aint!

Come on Telecom! Pull it together. Web Standards are a reality. Learn them, understand them, USE them!

I’m going to leave this post as is for the time being as I’m too annoyed to write properly so come back later to read a more thorough review.

The Web Standards Group has been around for a while and has been spreading the word in most major cities…except Auckland.

This is where Peter and I come in. As the two WSG core members it’s up to us to organise real-life meetings. So thats what we’ve done!

The gathering will be open to anyone interested in developing with web standards and will have the aim of creating the foundation for a regular, structured, Auckland meeting.

The Details

Place

The Belgian Beer Café
136 Hurstmere Road
Takapuna
Auckland

Date

Wednesday, 22nd June 2005

Time

7:00pm

RSVP

Please email me to express your interest so that we can make sure the venue can cope with demand!

• Rico Ajax Library
  Javascript library for creating rich internet applications. Full of all the AJAX loving!
  (tags: code open-source javascript ajax)
• Prototype: Object-Oriented Javascript Library
  Prototype is a Javascript library that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Its development is driven heavily by the Ruby on Rails framework, but it can be used in any environment.
  (tags: ajax code open-source javascript)
• The Weekly Standards - CSS Web Design Showcase
  This website highlights recently-launched corporate websites that take advantage of standards-based development techniques.
  (tags: css design)
• TardMe.co.nz
  This is what happens when you get pissed and try to use trademe
  (tags: misc funny)

This is what happens when you have a little free time, a digital camera, a tripod and a copy of photoshop.

• PBS | I, Cringely . June 9, 2005 - Going for Broke
  Some more theories about the Apple/Intel thing
  (tags: news apple intel)