Archive for the ‘interesting links’ Category

Hausschrift-Liste Unternehmen-zu-Schrift – Typografie.info TypoWikiCheck the list to see what typeface (font) your favorite corporation uses.(Tags: design, typography, business, fonts, reference)
Jason Santa Maria | Freedom, Terrible FreedomAmazing how often I get into good design vs. bad design scenarios with clients… guess it comes with the territory. It’s hard not to get upset when people don’t want to go with your awesome idea, though… especially when it makes sense for the end customer (that is, it’s not just what the client wants).(Tags: design, work, clients, professional, project-management)
Massive Dreamhost hack, WordPress not to blameDreamhost admits vulnerability in an attack that affected 3,000 or more FTP accounts… looks like now it’s affecting other webhosts, though. My Dreamhost domains were not affected, thankfully.(Tags: hosting, security, dreamhost, ftp)
Travelling Cross-Country by Train.This humorous and well-written depiction of US train travel is spot on. Erin and I took the train from Arizona to Illinois a few years back, and this list pretty much sums up our trip.(Tags: humor, tips, travel, train)

19 May, 2007

serestandar.esWeb standards are alive and well in… Spain! Bravo. Now, if I had an excuse to fly over there for the conference (I was in Spain this time last year, and it was wonderful).(Tags: web-standards, conference, estandares, web-design)
Uni-FormOpen source form starter kit (thanks for the link, Sam!). For my form building I sometimes use Wufoo since it’s WYSIWYG editing: easy to use and clean HTML and CSS output. Then I take the code and use that as my starter.(Tags: css, forms, web-design, html, open-source)
Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft – Social Design for the WebInteresting “low-tech” approach to explaining feeds and subscription-based publishing. Something I’d like my parents and non-tech friends to watch.(Tags: feeds, rss, video, tutorial, howto)
A Guide to CSS Support in Email: 2007 Edition – Campaign Monitor BlogSuperb guide to CSS support for HTML email marketing, updated for 2007’s latest and greatest email programs. I’ve been doing a lot more of this (email newsletters) for my clients, way more than I would have imagined when I started simpledream 2 and 1/2 years ago.(Tags: email, guidelines, css, html, newsletter)
Signs of Life @ The Autistic CuckooGlad to see Tommy Olsson back (sort of). I need to check out these articles… Tommy was a big influence on me when I first got into web design and web standards.(Tags: accessibility, css, html, standards, tutorial, web-design)

A List Apart: Articles: The Four-Day Week ChallengeThough this article isn’t new, I am implementing the four day work week starting… three weeks ago. Now Thursday is my Friday.(Tags: business, productivity, work)
SonSpring | Accessible Display: NoneNice writeup of an alternate method for hiding non-important elements from sighted web users but making it available to screen readers.(Tags: accessibility, usability, web-design, webdev, css, html)
Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Reworked ResetEric Meyer’s reset styles for starting CSS files. It might be a while before I incorporate this into my base style sheets, but it’s a great starting point for zeroing out default browser styles.(Tags: css, reference, web-standards, web-design)