resources

2005 January 22 • process, resources

Glossary of Terms

glossary: Terms relating to thesauri, faceted classification and other forms of structured vocabulary.
[credit: elearningpost]

2005 January 16 • ccs, resources

All CSS Properties Listed Alphabetically

resource: An excellent and brief compendium of all CSS properties along with compatibility information.
[credit: reachcustomersonline]

2005 January 16 • accessibility, resources, tools

Color Contrast Check Tool

tool: JavaScript-based tool lets you check colors for accessibility, comes with sliders and a live preview.
[credit: 456 Berea Street]

2005 January 16 • code, resources

Character Entity Reference

resource: These charts will allow you to copy and paste the appropriate character and numeric entities for your documents.
[credit: Zeldman]

2004 December 31 • business, resources

Choosing a Good Password

article: How to choose and safeguard your passwords.

2004 December 31 • ia, resources

Visio stencils for information architects

stencils: A free set of Visio stencils designed to aid the work of Information Architects. Also includes a number of good links to other online tools and references.
[credit: Column Two ]

2004 December 31 • process, resources

Project Management Checklists

checklist: An excellent set of checklists to use at every stage of a project, particularly useful for smaller businesses that don’t have dedicated project management staff.
[credit: reachcustomersonline]

2004 December 31 • ccs, resources

Cascading Style Cheatsheet

cheatsheet: includes many of the most useful CSS Properties with examples.
[credit: reachcustomersonline]

2004 December 26 • resources, seo

Quick Answers To Odd Questions

resources: Links to many specialized search tools including RefDesk, How Stuff Works, Internet Movie Database, Project Gutenberg, and others.
[credit: TiKouka]

2004 December 12 • accessibility, resources, tools

Accessibility: On a shoe-string

article: Tips for checking website accessibility.
[credit: 456 Berea Street]

2004 November 28 • resources, tools, writing

Readable Pages

tool: Part of making a website accessible is to use plain language. Get the readability score of any website by using this free online tool. Measures: Kincaid, ARI, Coleman-Liau, Flesch, Fog, Lix. Check average sentence length and many other statistics.
[credit: Writing for the Web]

2004 November 28 • resources

Tizag Tutorials

tutorials: Teach beginning web programmers how to use HTML and CSS, as well as PHP, MySQL, Perl and Javascript.
[credit: Via TiKouka]

2004 November 28 • accessibility, resources, usability

Accessible and Usable Forms

guidelines: A set of guidelines and examples that help you create Accessible & usable forms. [credit: 456 Berea Street]

2004 November 25 • design, resources

Checklist for Online Help

article: A series of design checklists based on 20 years of research.
[credit: InfoDesign]

2004 November 23 • accessibility, code, resources

Data tables

article: How tables should be used when marking up tabular data. [credit: TiKouka]

2004 November 19 • resources

Bullet Madness

resource: A list of 200 free graphic bullets, arrows and icons. [credit: paranoidfish.org/links]

2004 November 7 • resources, seo

Google Cheat Sheet

resource: An excellent link for any Google user to keep handy. [credit: The Pre-Commerce Blog]

2004 October 31 • resources

E-learning

showcase: Lists demos of award-winning e-learning courses for all to view and learn. [credit: elearningpost]

2004 October 28 • resources, tools

UITest.com

website: An interesting new site that makes it easy to check a site against a dozen or more validators, including:validity, accessibility (including WAI, section 508 and colourblindness) and link checking. [credit: eGovernment Resource Centre]

2004 October 26 • resources, tools, web standards

A Basic Primer in Using S5

article: S5 is a simple standards based browser presentation tool.