Friday, April 15, 2005

Why XHTML with CSS matters

From you can sleep when you're dead

The IE/Netscape browser war is over, and most web users are using standards-compliant browsers like Firefox, Safari, and IE 6. The old table-based layout techniques are no longer necessary.

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The Music of Wireframes

From UXCentric

Think about it. A score isn't music, just as a wireframe isn't a Web page. A score tells the musician what notes to play, when to play them, how to play them. A wireframe tells the project team what content to include, its placement and how it behaves.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Penn State Adopts WebStandards Policy

Found on Web Standards Projects

News from Pennsylvania State University, New Web Policy to Affect all of Penn State's Public Web Sites, gives a target date of August 15, 2005 for compliance to standards, guidelines, and accessibility. Major changes to the web policy were the result of consultation with the Faculty Senate, Web developers and designers, and administrators.

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Website redesign blogs: instructive trips to memory lane

From collegewebeditor.com

As explained in the previous post “Blogging the website redesign,” I really think blogs beat the traditional redesign committee’s status reports and meetings, because they give every stakeholder a chance to look at the design in the context it’s supposed to work - on a computer screen - and to give instant - yet articulated - written feedback.

Cornell.edu Redesign Blog has been doing it very well since July 2004. Started just a few weeks before the launch of the new website design, this blog has kept its promises...


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When a Dean blogs for her students, faculty, staff and alums

From collegewebeditor.com

While current students’ blogs are used more and more as promotional channels by marketing offices, you (at least, I) wouldn’t think that Deans were the blogging type. Somehow, I thought they just didn’t fit the blogger’s profile.

Well, I was wrong…

The Dean of Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in NY, Dianne Lynch, has been blogging since February 2005.

And, in her blog, “All Things Park - The sort-of official blog of the Park School at Ithaca College,” Dean Lynch uses blogging at its best.


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