A website is not a kilogram of apples

I have recently discovered an interesting blog and while reading one of its posts I firmly believed Julio, the author, read my mind. I translated it with his help and with the help of Alex & Gillian Meldrum and here it is for you to read and enjoy.

When quoting for work, we seem to hear [...]

Finally we will have non-latin domain names

Today ICANN approved the Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process which means we soon will see Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters. That is a fair thing to do since maybe half of the world population is not writing with latin characters.
The process will begin on November 16th and will allow nations to apply for Internet [...]

Website of the day: Wix.com

Today’s website is a free online tool for creating Flash websites.
The steps to complete a beautiful Flash website are:

create your account
choose your free template
customize it
publish it
enjoy it.

The free templates that you can edit from are really beatiful and if you explore their gallery you can see that the sky is the limit when [...]

The coolest Google Map icons

There’s no reason for our Google Maps to look ugly because of  the icons Google used to offer. Now have become available a huge number of icons offered by Nico Mollet under the Creative Commons 3.0 license. The cherry on the cake is that they give away everything related to these icons so everybody can [...]

Microsoft makes peace with EU

Today was a great day for Microsoft…or not.  The company finally reached a deal with the European Commision in the never ending fight concerning Microsoft attempts to impose IE as a unique browser for Windows and not willing to help the developers build compatible software with MS products. The measures that Microsoft will take are [...]

Using CSS3 to style forms written in HTML5

Styling a form is never an easy thing to do, but adding CSS3 on a HTML5 form is a task that shows a large variety of results when it comes to testing on different browsers. Check the test link.
When it comes to CSS3 not much can be done: but adding rounded corners, gradients and dropshadows [...]

Good for you you’re coding accessible websites, but do you actually know any blind user?

What can you answer to your client when you try to explain that your code is W3c, semantic, crossbrowser and…accessible and your client asks you “Good for you you’re coding accessible websites, but do you actually know any blind user?” Meaning, why should someone care about how you code a site as long as [...]

Another IE6 boycott

I know almost every blogger wrote about this subject (lately all complaining about IE6 still being used by common users) – but this time I think we should take all this to the next level and start doing something about it.
I admit I don’t usually have contact with the final clients or have access to [...]

A third way to write and validate forms – HTML5

After writing an accessible form in XHTML and validating it with a PHP server side script & after that with a Mootools client-side script, I write today about a third way of approaching the subject – using future-to-come HTML5 (by saying that, I really hope to be able to use it waaaay before 2011).
The beauty [...]

Basic copy-paste accessible contact form

A good way to learn about accessibility is through examples and discussions. In this post I will try to translate the WCAG sometimes-hard-to-get rules into a copy-paste real contact form example.  You can check the test link, download the code and/or keep reading a bit more.
As I mentioned before, contact forms are in great need [...]