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They're the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat "movie-literate."

Each page is based on what I'm calling a 'zooming' layout. By that I mean that the information view and relevance on the page zooms out as the page goes down.

The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.

Help us discover what bbc.co.uk 2.0 looks like. We don't just want you to redesign the bbc.co.uk homepage, we want you take it all the way back to the drawing board…

You can go either of two ways to replace your Ipod battery: have Apple replace your battery for you for $99 or you can do it yourself for $29.

There is a danger of adversly effecting semantics through incorrect use of CSS.

The single most effective decision you can take to reduce your impact on the climate is not to fly. In the absence of any leadership from government, we offer you the chance to pledge to limit the number of flights you take each year.

A twist on the Lightbox technique

With the imminent launch of IE7 your usual CSS hacking methods are going to fail. If you want to save web design, as we know it, it’s time to take some drastic action.

The dissertation approaches some key accessibility questions in the UK; do small businesses know that they are expected to provide accessibility and are they prepared to bite the bullet and shell out for an upgrade?

Chocolaterie now open in Islington.

A pop-up window that doesn't suck.

An alternative Bugzilla client. It is a desktop application with interactive user interface and unique capabilities that are a valuable addition to the feature-rich web-based Bugzilla software.

The prime rule is: Consider what the page looks like or sounds like when images are not shown. Then, write for each image an alt text that best works as a replacement.

Due to its seemingly presentational nature not many designers use it, opting to set the width using CSS instead. [However], 'size' is not presentational.

All we need to do is designate a CSS style with multiple background-images. As your browser reads the style, it will load each image you designate in succession, thus pre-loading your images.

One area of Web design that is going to become more important in the coming years is high DPI.

As you listen to music via the excellent Pandora music service each song gets submitted to your profile on Last.FM.

Friday 28th April, 6.30pm for 6.45pm, Free for UPA members, £10 for Non UPA members (£5 for students).

A longlist of what are deemed the 50 best film adaptations of all time.

A Linux-like environment for Windows.

With Crazy Egg you can easily see where visitors are clicking on a page and where they're not.

Describes how we used one blogging package (WordPress) to replace a traditional content management system (phpWebSite) to run a community website.

Replaces the behavior of Ctrl+Tab. Instead of directly changing tab it works some thing like Alt+Tab on windows.

Could be useful for images but wouldn't let it near my HTML. "Strips the redundant information often contained in GIF, JPEG, PNG and HTML files, reducing their size by sometimes as much as 40 or 50%."

The WaiZilla project is the first open source project aimed at producing a cross platform web-site accessibility testing tool.

This website is mainly about my books and some things I find interesting. Among other things, you'll find some short stories, some recipes, a vegan FAQ, lots of stuff about my books and some links to other sites.

Is there a way to display text-based data on a map, keeping it accessible, useful and visually attractive? Yes: using an accessible CSS-based map in which the underlying map data is separated from the visual layout.

"An analysis/study of techniques for "skip navigation" links (also "skip to main content" links) which resulted from an assignment I had in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines working group, Techniques task group."

A simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

"Explore the architecture and history along London’s River Thames

The executive summary: SpiffyCorners is an online generator that allows easy production of rounded corners on content boxes (DIVs).

Cunning...

"It’s always seemed a bit wrong and dirty to use innerHTML to manipulate or add content to a page. It’s not a standard (more of an agreement between browser manufacturers) and it doesn’t work on some browsers with certain mime-types while the core p

Hoary old cmd.exe does have a few tricks up its sleeve that you may not know about.

Content managers often turn a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of PDF files sitting on their servers, downloaded every day... and 99% of them, hideously inaccessible, and utterly non-compliant with Section 508.

A step-by-step guide that covers the basics for creating and optimizing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files so that they can be made accessible to users with disabilities such as blindness or low vision.

In order for a PDF to be truly accessible two conditions must be met

Good timing.

A Guide to CSS Support in Email details the level of support for CSS in the most widely used email clients. The guide includes email software for Windows and Mac OS as well as web based email clients.

It became very clear to me just how inadequate [checking against WCAG, using simple tests like increasing text size, browsing with Lynx, and navigating with keyboard] was in truly determining whether or not the site was accessible

Accessible, usable websites built with universality and standards in mind need not be boring