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Archive for February, 2008

[Friday Links] The Resource Edition

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Following this weeks web workshop a large list of recourses and tools.

Extensible CSS Interface I: The Foundation
A Guide to Web Typography
Web Design References: Accessibility
9 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire THAT Web Guy | CSS Zone
All the News a Web Worker Needs
Personas and the Role of Design Documentation
Fonts on the [...]

Growing employee skills with in house workshops

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

A few days ago I gave a workshop titled “Introduction to the Web” to the whole creative team in the marketing department. I think it went quite well, I threw it together in an hour and just started talking not knowing what type of reactions to expect.
For some of the team who are print designers [...]

CMS sheds its baggage

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

For some time we have been moving our sites to a new enterprise level server environment. Transitioning sites between servers meant keeping our CMS in two environments and bounce between depending on which site was being edited. This became quite a task to keep both CMS’s up to date since one was php4 and the [...]

[Friday Links] The Education Edition

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Its crazy how fast a week can fly by. Keeping with the theme of education here is a bunch of links related to learning the art of web design.

Web Accessibility: Configuring links in Screen readers
Social Media Will Change Your Business
A Typical HTML Page
Viral Marketing at the Grass Roots Level
50 Questions [...]

MAC welcomes another member

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

A new member of our team started yesterday, Shaun Pezeski. He is the new Student Assistant Web Developer. Shaun is an honor student here at the university and has worked on a few student organization sites on campus.
He will essentially be our front end developer and creating html from mockups provided by the design team. [...]

[Friday Links] The Late Edition

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Better late than never.

The Problem with Social Media Marketing
What Is Your Mental Model? – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
11 Things To Know About Semantic Web – ReadWriteWeb
ATRC Web Accessibility Checker
Webstock 2008: Good Design Ain’t Easy
Productivity: 8 Ways to Save Time for Excessive Social Media Overuse
Assistive [...]

Running Firefox 2 and 3 simultaneously

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

As web developers we are always testing and re-testing our work in the latest browsers. As the release for Firefox 3 becomes imminent it is crucial to test everything while still being able to work since FF3 is not out of beta yet.
We have compiled a step by step guide to running both Firefox 2 [...]

[Friday Links] The Teamwork Edition

Friday, February 8th, 2008

It has been a week of teamwork, partnerships and groups. Short and precise list this week dedicated to design, development and standards.

It’s all about teamwork
The Immutable Laws of Web Design and Development
Juicy Writing: 5 Ways to Glue Readers to the Page
Understanding Web Semantics
Aarron Walter on Findability, SEO, and Web Standards (An Event Apart)
Helping others [...]

New features coming to the university events calendar.

Monday, February 4th, 2008

The university events calendar has been around since 2004. It has gone through three complete re-codings since its initial release and it about to go through another. Although thanks to PHPSimpl it won’t be too painful. We are revamping how an event is added, not only help the student looking for events but also to [...]

[Friday Links] The Practical Edition

Friday, February 1st, 2008

So we made it a month, its great to see the readership grow. This week has been one of getting things done and blog neglection. The articles of the week reflect the same mentality in the blogosphere (lolz at the busswords).

From Web Standards Diva to Web Standards Devo
JavaScript-Based Injection Attacks
10 Principles Of Effective [...]