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A blast from the past for "July, 2006"

1. A Case for Web Accessibility – it’s not just for the disabled anymore!

   Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 | No Responses

   Times-are-a-changing and accessibility adoption on the web is going to have an impact of enormous proportions. There was a time when accessibility was a word far removed from the web design community (in the US at least). More recently the term has transformed into ‘Section 508 compliancy’ – branding it primarily a concern only for […]

2. Adam Bosworth, Chief Architect for Google, on Innovating in Real Time

   Thursday, July 20th, 2006 | 2 Comments

   Last week Adam Bosworth, Chief Architect for Google, spoke at the DISA Customer Conference. Mr. Bosworth’s topic, “Innovating In Real Time”, a truly inspirational insight into how Google works.

3. Web 2.0 redefined with one word — responsibility

   Friday, July 14th, 2006 | 2 Comments

   The term “Web 2.0” has been overused and has unfortunately oversaturated conversations to the point of being synonymous with industry ignorance. Like many leaders and followers of innovation – we role our eyes at the mere mention of the idea of the existence of such a term. Whether you like the term or not […]

4. The first CSS World Awards

   Friday, July 7th, 2006 | 5 Comments

   CSS Mania (www.cssmania.com) announces the first “CSS World Awards”. The CSS World Awards were created to “recognize the work done by developers that build websites using CSS”. A most impressive roll-call of judges, including Andy Budd, Cameron Moll, Molly Holzschlag, Roger Johansson, Sergio Villareal, choose ten websites in ten different categories. The categories include: associations, […]

5. Microformats Cheatsheet Download Available

   Friday, July 7th, 2006 | 3 Comments

   Brian Suda of http://suda.co.uk has created an extremely helpful “Microformats Cheatsheet”. For those new to microformats or actively implementing them – this is an amazing resource. The cheatsheet is currently available for download in PDF form (72.93 KB). The original and most up-to-date PDF is available on Brian’s site.

6. The Webmaster/Office Assistant – A Death of a Profession

   Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 | 2 Comments

   I’ve been watching for this day for sometime now; be prepared as the role of the web designer is going to change as corporate culture is reshaped. The growing concern we should all be aware of is the slow demise of the web designer and its roles’ future and inevitable merger with the front-desk. The […]