links for 2006-08-28
Monday, August 28th, 2006-
Yay! Almost a year on from its conception JQuery goes ver1.0 This is a great Javascript lib and if you haven’t used it i recommend you get on it!!
Archive for August, 2006
links for 2006-08-25
Friday, August 25th, 2006-
Details on exactly what CSS (and other) bugs have been fixed in IE7. Included is a list of all the bugs found at positioniseverything.net as well as others. Also is a list of some CSS2.1 and CSS3 additions. All sounds very promising! And yay for alpha
Bingo and Quarts
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Don’t know why I haven’t made the effort to walk across the road to have a beer at The Schooner Tavern…however, last night I made the mammoth 245m walk to the Schooner to play bingo with Tineke, Sean, Mieke and Manda girl!
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links for 2006-08-24
Thursday, August 24th, 2006-
A film shot using a still camera. Amazing!
links for 2006-08-21
Monday, August 21st, 2006-
A kinda preempive CSS3 site…seems interesting enough
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Russ from the Web Standards Group talks to Jeremy Keith about javascript, DOM and all things geeky
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It’s funny.
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Prince of Persia done in flash. Very very very cool. takes me way back
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A wiki page containing links to people’s ideas about mantaining CSS for large sites. I’ve been finding a need for this more n more of late…
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The complete collection of GMail tips. Or so it says. My favorite is shift+c
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20 awesome things you never thought you could do with CSS
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An entity diagram builder written in javascript. Looks very very nice, indeed!
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A CMS of sortes…i think. Written in PHP and free, free, free!
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An ajax personalized homepage. Like GoogleIG.
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PHP AJAX thing. looks very very easy to impliment and use.
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Bittorrent search. Like totally!
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Open Source to-do list clean…like AJAX clean!
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An awesome scripted interface to compare three fonts at once. This is VERY COOL!
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XHTML Character Entity Reference - there
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How to host a personal wiki on your home computer at Lifehacker
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Some nice little things you can do with a .htaccess file
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This appendix contains the complete ECMAScript [ECMAScript] binding for the Level 2 Document Object Model Core definitions.
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Mozilla gives you the low-down on AJAX. A beginners guide, i guess.
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Webbased IM client (AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN)
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General torrent web site.
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Ajax and javascript libs
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An online TV show. Interviews with technology geeks and nerds.
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Free icons for websites, applications and shit.
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A phat list of all the web applications/sites that have API’s. It’s long.
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Podcasts, interviews and geeks talking about technology in MP3 formap
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Quite a massive list of programs, websites and widgets that make use of the flickr web services and/or API.
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President Bush: Sell the Ranch
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All the recipes that get printed in that Viva! suppliment in the NZ Herald.
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This dude has been stuck in New Orleans throughout the entire hurricane/flood. He’s journalled the entire time. This is more info than the press will ever give.
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As the name says….this is an old school engadget post from the BBS days. Mental!
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Not the real ones. These are ones your can make…Very very funny!
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The Webpage of the book of the soundtrack of the movie of the….
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A damn good example of forms without tables. And it looks different to most of the other CSS based form layouts. Check it out, you wont be sorry…
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Jason talks about how he thinks the web will become the next Operating System. This is what I hope for. We all need applications that are OS agnostic. Make it work on the web and it’ll work on everything. Granted not much of what he’s written here is
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One bacon recipe a day. Forever. (Score!)
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Very very very very obscene word generator
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Probably one of my favorite scenes in a movie. Ever.
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Jason Kottke asks what the next ‘web thing’ is. He says we’re currently going through the web2.0 thing…so whats next? He’s left comments on so there’s quite a good discussion going on…
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Add a del.icio.us ‘blogroll’ to your site with this bit o JavaScript
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Search all of del.icio.us. Like all of it, man!
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Jesse James Garrett talks to flickr ‘engineer’ Eric Costello. A really good interview
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WebReference are doing a multi-part article on basic AJAX
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Digital Photography Turorals
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Embed flash without any of that non-standard markup. This is a goer!
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CSS, AJAX and valid markup is the makup of this forum software
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The Education Ministry has signed an 18-month software licensing deal with Novell New Zealand, the ministry’s first deal to provide open source software to schools.
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Thats right! This page will show you how to style those nasty checkboxes and radio buttons
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Eat healthy - its easy!
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An online JavaScript reference. v.handy, esp with all this AJAX hype.
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So many website, and all of them validate. Nice
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The url gives this one away. A fair list of free audio books.
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The free and open database of Open Source projects that anyone can edit.
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Online casino pais woman $10,000 to get a tattoo of their company name on her forehead.
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Photos of a well thought our global domination plan by Google
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Make your rank css or html look lovely with indentation. nice little web interface
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CNET is now 10 years young! It’s amazing how time flies on the interweb super-motorway!
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I Wiki page containing a list of things you can do with RSS. Its a long, long list. (thanks suze)
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Something broke.
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A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record of sorts Sunday by reciting “pi,” or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 digits.
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Flickr+google Earch = phatness++!
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Covers all the main/default fonts on Mac and Windows. Very handy for web designers.
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Links to browse on those boring days at [work/home/school/etc]
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Dan Cederholm wrote a new book.
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All the Tui Beer posters you’d ever need. Most of them have links to related information - good work, mangee!
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A social search tool provided by Yahoo! very beta. full of tags, and all the cool web2.0 stuff
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Google Earth puts a planet’s worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. At the moment you need to have a PC running windows for this to work.
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Amazing clouds. Unlike any other I’ve seen
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The peeps at adaptive path are smart, therefore you should read this article about how the web developers are giving conrtol back to the web user.
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An interface for del.icio.us using Javascript, XML and XSL. Its very very tight!
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Joe Clark’s presentation notes from @media 2005. Why we should build a high-contrast version of our websites.
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According to this article 1 in 10 UK websites dont work in Firefox. I wander what the numbers are like in New Zealand?
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Very similar to the open Rico project - this site contails lovely javascript/DOM/AJAX widgets.
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Like the link says. CSS2 reference with examples. There are references on that page too. Score!
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Get all the CSS info you need all from this page. It’s a simple list of websites and resources.
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All the IE CSS hacks you may ever need. Covers: conditional comments, backslash hack for IE 5.x broken box model, overflow problems and font sizes in tables in IE 5.x
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A community directory of freely available music - with tags too!
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An interesting use of CSS and semantic(ish) markup. Using anchors, background images and flickr-like labels.
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Similar to Calq - but its a bookmarklet. Javascript to the rescue once again!
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Great looking form layout using CSS
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Convert RSS feeds into real live email!
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Cant be arsed buying a real aircon? Just make your own!
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Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
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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.
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How to make AJAX play nicely with your browser buttons
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A nicely layed out New Zealand TV guide.
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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?
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The FED are monitoring Flickr. Pricks.
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We’ve organised an informal meeting of Auckland web standards enthusiasts.
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This is what happens when you get pissed and try to use trademe
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This website highlights recently-launched corporate websites that take advantage of standards-based development techniques.
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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.
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Javascript library for creating rich internet applications. Full of all the AJAX loving!
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Some more theories about the Apple/Intel thing
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PHP is celebrating it’s 10th birthday today (or tomorrow depending on where you are…)
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XML becomes the new file format for the next versions of Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint
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Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index
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Zeldman.com has been online for 10 years. Time flies!
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The Persistence Of Vision Raytracer (’POV-Ray’) is a freely downloadable cross-platform application that implements the raytracing algorithm, which is a technique for simulating the physical behavior of light utilizing software-based mathematical models.
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Could it be? It sounds like a goer from this end!
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Stephan Spencer (my boss) bangs on about business blogging. Interesting enough.
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The original NZ ver of the flash movie
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Using/abusing - call it what you will. This dude worked out the amazon image URL.
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Yes - be a more productive blogger and you will be a better person.
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Rounded corners and the works. Not the most semantic markup, but it works
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Experiments with CSS
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Backup your del.icio.us links to your GMail account (just incase…)
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Following on from modularised CSS. This is getting very interesting
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Modularise your CSS just like you would any other large chunks of code
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Finaly people are using Javascript as its inventor intended. AJAX is the new DHTML but MUCH better.
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This is a blog…i think, but it’s very nice looking
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This is a little Javascript program that will concatenate two fields and MD5 them. The idea is that you choose one master password to secure all your others, and then generate passwords for each site, server, router, &c. by putting a completely obvious na
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A website (nice looking, too!) dedicated to typography on the WWW
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I nice bit of info about typography esp in regards to web design
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THE source for Greasemonkey scripts
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This is one of the 9rules lot. Good site, it seems
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_THE_ 3 column css layout.
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The Semiologic theme is much more than a simple WordPress theme: It includes a WordPress plugin to change the behavior of your WordPress install, and is bundled with a collection of plugins meant to turn your blog into a genuine Content Management System
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Bookmarks for web developers: a list of useful web-tools
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970 links about web usability - a pity about that rank yellow!
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Yes. MORE CSS layouts. These ones seem pretty good.
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Shows the browser support for CSS, XHTML and DOM
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Ever needed to put some company’s logo in your design…well these guys have 4999 logos…
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MOre colour goodness. and look they even spelt it properly!
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titles says it all. Also - I’ve been to this house and its awesome
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Choice webpage explaning exactly what JavaScript is and what it isn’t
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New Zealand portal for NZ designers
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The name pretty much says it all
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Stock stock stock
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Nice looking style guide for web sites.
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Markup Style Guide from Mozilla
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Documentation Style Guide from Mozilla
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Take a deep breath and lets begin….
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300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have - WOOP!
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Experiments using DOM and unobtrusive javascript
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An index of the DOM as defined by GEKO
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scripts css markup…all the wonders of modern web development
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more DOM goodness
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auto generate a linked list of all your h tags on a page
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Well-Behaved DHTML: A Case Study
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Enhancing Structural Markup with JavaScript
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When flickr launched later in 2005 you’ll see the Buy Prints button
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I page with links to all the font you may like to use in your favorite IDE
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Like the page title suggests…
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Sajax is a tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework — also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting — as easy as possible.
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All the free designs you could possible ever want. Ever.
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John Oxton writes an great little primer to 3-column css layouts.
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SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.
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Molly E. Holzschlag writes an article about semantic HTML
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A slideshow on how to best create a 3colmn liquid layout with CSS, markup and a spot of JavaScript
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AJAX (Asynchronous Javacript And Xml) is the new DHTML
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PIE tell us what problems you’re likely to encounter when developing with HTML and CSS
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The W3C’s take on the font sizing debate.
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Create a font online. Very cool!
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Bill says they’ll release an updated ver of IE before the next release of Windows
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How best to create your sites URIs
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A weblog about Accessibility, Usability and Web Standards
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Photos of loveliness! An amazing site both in design and content!
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New Zealand Online Craft Store
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Park concerts, events, summer activities happening in Auckland in 2005
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Voice Over IP that just works
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Public domain MP3 releases.
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O’Reilly releases a Firefox Hacks book - for ‘power surfers’
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Firefox in print. Wired Feb Issue talks about the Firefox Explosion
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Do all those crazy CSS things (3 column layouts, rounded corners, etc)
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The personal weblog of web designer, Darren Wood.
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How to make something center bother vertically and horizontally.
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A little breakdown of the ‘layers of a web page’.
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A great article on web accessibility - required for any wed designer/developer,
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a lovely compatibility table of CSS hacks.
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the links on the right. thats what you want. audioblogs
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posters and dvd covers
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kung fu movie posted from now and then
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Three untold CSS mysteries you might not know about include the universal selector, !important keywords, and multi-classes.
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A new, free way to listen to radio and watch video on the Internet. It uses P2P technology to let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of traditional streaming.
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How to deal with the fact that people tend to ignore navigation tools
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W3C’s Semantic data extractor. Put in a URL and see the semantic nature of that page.
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Andy Clarke explains how he creates and uses CSS mark-up guides.
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Digital proof providing information on why you should not use Internet Explorer.
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a great resource for all things web. javascript, css, dom
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CSS Hacks, and which browsers they work on. Very hand for those cross-browser sites.
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Design resources to rev your visual engine.
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Something like delicious….
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An artists up to the minute view of life (using her camera phone)
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A flickr group about shopping at the Grocery Store, etc…
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The creative and technical vents of Scott Schiller, Calgary
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Fine Typography from Europe.
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An Essay entitled: The Hyperlinked Metaphysics of the Web
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Building Rich DHTML User Interfaces Revisited
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The Motive Internet Glossary demystifies terminology related to Internet communication; philosophy, design, application, and technology.
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There are many ways to approach web site design. Some are better than others, but it is not possible to objectively state that one method is the best in all aspects. Here, Tommy describes how he does it.
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JPSpan provides tools to “hook up†PHP and Javascript, for the purpose of fetching data from PHP into a web page which has already loaded, without reloading the entire page.
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A database of plugings for the blogging software, Wordpress. Also includes a plugin manager.
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Molly asking her reader about how to deal with comment spam on blogs.
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A popular way of implementing lightweight, accessible CSS-based dropdown menus
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A Wordpress plugin that allows for Flickr integration
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Its a book…and this is the website that goes with it.
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Very interesting article about The Firefox Screen Reader Emulator Extension.
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Yet another way of integrating del.icio.us to your site.
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A little write up on how add your del.icio.us feed to your website/blog
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A linux client for uploading photos to Flickr
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All the bitmap fonts you need
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A forum post with a LOT of links to extensions and the like.
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This is the latest version of the New Zealand Government Web Guidelines
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A colour mixer and theme maker…
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Free Speech: Use It or Lose It.
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A UK stencil artist. Causing quite a stir….
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Pay your parking fines in Auckland City online.
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DJ SETS + LIVES + MORE
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Not really sure what it is…but some tight code, nevertheless…
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Aotearoa Indy Media
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New Zealand Design News & Views
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A New Zealand weblog about technology and the like
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A shopping blog. All the cool stuff you would buy if only you could find it online.
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A great New Zealand photographer.
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A web design and development mailing discussing anything and everything web.
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The Web Standards Group.
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CSS1 Reference
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The web log of Paul Scrivens. He talks about everything design
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A great commic strip about interface design and designers. Illustrated by Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi.
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The name says it all. There’s a screen-shot of the original and the copy.
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A web design blog written by Jonathan Macy Biggs. Nice design, buddy!
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mono is a blog focusing on design, culture, technology, business, etc
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The Auckland student radio station. (Other radio stations are shit!)
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Amazingly designed (and written) blog about the web, music, book, movies, etc…
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Web design and web standards blog written by Jason Santa Maria
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A collection of unexpected photography. I’m quite fond of the found typography gallery.
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A geek/web focused New Zealand blog.
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The rest of the world has eBay. We’ve got it better with trademe!
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The rest of the world has netflix. We’ve got it better with Movieshack!
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The personal blog of Miss Amanda Wheeler.
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For those of us who are ‘into’ web design and development.
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The personal site and blog of CSS guru Eric Meyer.
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“Daring to use ‘web design’, ’standards’ & ‘good looking’ in the same sentence
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Daily Musings and Commentary by Dan Rubin, Visual Designer and Web Standards Consultant
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Douglas Bowman’s small design consultancy. Also blogging about web standards, etc.
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A tiny design firm and blog, founded by web design consultant and author, Dan Cederholm.
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Simon Willison’s Weblog about web development.
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A website built and maintained by Ethan Marcotte.
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A blog about web standards
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Weblog of An author, instructor, and Web designer, Molly E. Holzschlag.
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I <3 Zeldman!
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Blog of Jeffrey Veen, internationally sought-after speaker, author and consultant.
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New Zealand blog of Joseph Lindsay
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Blog of web guru Dave Shea.
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Great looking blog about web design by Simon Collison
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Web log of web developer Richard Rutter. Great bits of code and general geekery
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Links-and-commentary blog on accessible media by Joe Clark
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D. Keith Robinson’s Web Design Blog.
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Sweet as blog about design, web standards and general web geekery
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Ponderings and code by Drew McLellan
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Tight, beautiful, minimal design. Great writing by Greg Storey.
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456 Berea Street is where Roger Johansson writes about web standards, accessibility, usability and other topics related to web design and development.
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Yet another css thumbnail repository.
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CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit
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Enough said really…
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css layouts, tips, tricks, and techniques. I think there’s a blog hidden in there too :)
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A tool to optimise CSS code. Its a smart little tool, indeed!
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Web design for newbies. Dealing with all things web design and development.
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Making A Commercial Case for Adopting Web Standards (its an acronym)
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The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list using samples from Eric Meyer, ProjectSeven, SimpleBits, Jeffrey Zeldman and others.
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I neat little web application that builds a css driven layout for you.
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In introduction to CSS from the people at w3schools.
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I page of all the webdev links you could ever need.
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Eric Meyer experiments with CSS.
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Dave Shea’s CSS crib sheet.
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The web professional’s online magazine of choice. (sic)
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How to make it work on IE
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A blog about CSS
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“For People Who Make Websites.” - a magazine for web profesionals.
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The only CSS mailing list worth mentioning
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Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
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Your one stop resource for css links, articles, tutorials, examples, tips, layouts, hacks, books, and web standards
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Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who takes interest in websites built with web standards and CSS as primary tools.
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The Web’s CSS portal.
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A beautiful showcase of CSS designed sites.
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The one and only! The site that got the ball rolling.
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An e-book about Web Accessibility.
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‘Web Design from Scratch’ is a practical training course in web design for everyone interested in creating effective web pages.
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Your own handwriting on your computer!
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A zine with interviews, reviews, designs, and general web stuff.
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{ The Designers’ Lunchbox â„¢ }
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Wanna learn web standards? Start here!
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A micro-site explaining how and why building sites with web standards is a good thing.
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Standards for HTML Authoring for the World Wide Web