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How are microformats faring a year or so after their coming-out party?

You may want your website to display in a specific way, but your users may want it another way. Enforcing anything on a user is bad for usability and therefore detrimental to the success of the website.

Elastic css zen garden example.

In their eagerness to be good Web citizens, people sometimes use semantic markup when they shouldn’t. Most commonly, this happens with bold and italics.

Generally, it means to use WordPress as a more conventional CMS, for less blog-ish content and presentation style. We’re looking at portfolio sites, news and magazine sites, article libraries, gallery sites, photologs, e-commerce sites, and many more.

Most browsers do not allow for the Flash plugin to be turned on and off. Instead, you're asked to delete the plugin. jTFlashManager gives you the capability to turn Flash on and off for all of your browsers.

Old school. Still has some relevance.

A large list of the factors that can influence a web document's rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase

A quick look at what microformats are and aren’t, then we’ll look at some very significant organizations already using them. Then we’ll take a look at just how easy it is to use them.

"The brand new jQuery 1.0". Hurrah!

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The most accessible, user-friendly way to receive input that a user incontravertibly knows is to ask the user to type their response into a free-text field, rather than require them to select it.

"Although Internet Explorer recognises the q element, it doesn't render the quotations marks around the quoted text. A CSS solution isn't possible, as Internet Explorer doesn't support the :before and :after pseudo-elements, so this article suggests a scr

"Techniques you can implement to achieve advanced accessibility, beyond the guidelines." Nothing radical

In my previous post I related my experience with implementing markup-only solutions to the task of incorporating multimedia into web sites, and later asserted a low opinion of a popular tool used for publishing SWF files.

Independent contractor filter: what is the best way to simultaneously raise my rates and not lose the business?

I’ve just spotted Adobe as a “user” on del.icio.us. It’s interesting to see that organisations like this are using del.icio.us as an online marketing channel to increase brand awareness, page rank and general online visibility.

What strange new behaviour do we have to look out for in IE7? Are there things that work as expected in IE6 that don’t in IE7?

Thank the lord!

A torrent search engine that can search all the major torrent sites and display the search results onto a single page for easy viewing.

Check all your JavaScript source code for common mistakes without actually running the script or opening the web page.

A memory leak detector for Internet Explorer

Constant stress can increase your cholesterol, suppress your immune system and make your stomach ache. Why not avoid it altogether? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

A little app that would automate the whole process and run Internet Explorer 7 beta 3 in standalone mode. You can run multiple instances of it with no problem.

Download and extract my IE7 Standalone package, download the IE7 installation from Microsoft and copy to the same directory, and run the setup batch file.

Kaikai Kiki represents selected young artists Chiho Aoshima, Mr., Aya Takano, Chinatsu Ban, Mahomi Kunikata, and Rei Sato.

This is an example of creating a semi-dynamic pie chart without the use of server-side imaging libraries

"No matter how many percentage bar’s will be displayed on the page the user will only need to wait for two images to be downloaded". Handy.

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"Frederic's versatile plugin detector can be used to detect most of the important browser plugins." Old school.

What can I do about weak and painful knees? I'm a 21 y.o. male with weak, creaking, grinding, and occasionally dislocating knees. Cause/options/suggestions?

An open source GUI for most features of the svn client binary.

A source for people well versed in environmental information as well as those beginning to explore this important issue.

Many self-employed/freelancers/small businesses face the same problem. You've done the work - yet your corporate clients haven't paid on time. Yet you have a legal right to charge interest if companies don't pay you.

"An Agile development platform on a disk, with best-of-breed Agile tools, pre-installed and configured on a KNOPPIX-based Linux distribution." Subversion, Trac, CruiseControl

If you are serious about the practice of software development, you should avoid SourceSafe.

Founded by the people behind Utobeer, the beer and drinks specialists who have had a high profile presence at [Borough] market for seven years.