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December, 2009

Links for December 5th

Tree Testing – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
"After hearing about Donna Spencer's paper-based tree testing, Dave O'Brien and his colleagues were hooked, so much so that they built an online tool to allow you to effectively test a site hierarchy. Hear about the tree testing approach and see how O'Brien's tool works."
tags:
tools
design
information-architecture

Links for December 4th

24 ways: What makes a website successful? It might not be what you expect!
"Paul Boag challenges us to think about what makes our sites successful, which has interesting implications on how resources are spent."
tags:
business
design
gotoandlearn.com – Google Maps with Flex & PHP
I had to spend some time recently with Google Maps through Flex, so that it could be used within a Facebook page (you cannot use standard JavaScript maps on fan pages). I didn't know any Flex, and this was one of the places I went to learn what I needed.
tags:
actionscript
google-maps
php
programming
flex

Links for December 3rd

24 ways: Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms
Writing and styling forms with HTML5. It will be a huge improvement, once browsers support all of it.
tags:
html5
html
forms

Links for December 2nd

World AIDS Day | love is an orientation
Beautiful post I should have linked to sooner. "They feel the only answer is that it is easier to deal with people who are helpless rather than work hard enough to reach and understand the “enemy.” Is that true?"
tags:
andrew-marin
activism
church
aids
css backgrounds in Firefox 3.6 at hacks.mozilla.org
Some notes on CSS backgrounds in Firefox 3.6. For me, most notable is support for multiple backgrounds. Up to this point, only Safari, as far as I know, has had this support.
tags:
design
css3
css

Links for December 1st

24 ways: Working With RGBA Colour
"A look at some of the tools CSS3 provides for applying levels of transparency to color values, enabling you to avoid weighing down a site design with heavy PNG images."
tags:
design
color
css
css3
Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles – O'Reilly Radar
Though it was a New Years article, this is a great read in light of the various hells of consumerism into which we can fall. Make stuff that matters, and when you buy stuff, buy stuff that matters.
tags:
activism
business

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