In case you didn’t hear, AT&T (iphone, among others) dropped the lawsuit against Verizon’s ad campaign (playing on the ” an app for that” by comparing the 3G coverage of AT&T to Verizon with a visual map). Read more at mashable and elsewhere. I thought it was a really clever and hardhitting ad campaign, which is saying alot in the sea of ads we all ...
Author Archives: robinna
Drupal 7 news
Like | robinna | Dec 2, 2009 | CMS, Design
The Drupal community is eagerly anticipating the unwrapping of its newest version 7 release. While there is speculation on when the official release date will happen, the end result will be a number of significant enhancements. The underlying focus has been on improving usability. In fact, an internationally renowned design firm was engaged to spearhead the efforts and facilitate community based suggestions. Drupal has long ...
on web standards and accessibility
Like | robinna | Dec 1, 2009 | standards, usability, webdesign
To me, true accessibility is building one site that works for everybody, disabled or not, and whatever user agent or operating system they prefer. And that is the web I want to build and use. Yup. A good post on web standards and accessibility.
rainy day haiku
Like | robinna | Dec 1, 2009 | Life, life 2.0+, social media, that's cool
I do not think myumbrella is big enoughto tackle this rain --funny, how facebook status updates turn out... I had no clue that a created a haiku until a literary friend pointed it out.
on usability….
Like | robinna | Nov 30, 2009 | webdesign
Just passing along an interesting post about usability.
Creating digital art via touch
Like | robinna | Nov 29, 2009 | 3D, 3D printers, CMS, Culture, Design, STEaM, STEM
Touch screens aren’t the only way of doing this. Shillito is leading a team that has developed software that allows artists to receive physical feedback when designing virtual 3D objects. The team’s approach uses a haptic device called Falcon, which vibrates and moves to allow users to “feel” virtual objects. Originally developed for 3D gaming, Falcon is a cross between a joystick and a mouse. ...
Tips to eek out web performance
Like | robinna | Nov 28, 2009 | tools/tips, webdesign
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/ yslow from yahoo is a great site, as is some of the firebug stuff.
RDA webinar & tools
Like | robinna | Nov 27, 2009 | Design, Libraries, metadata, semantic web
“RDA is being developed as a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world.” A webinar/presentation about RDA, which the cataloging world has been abuzz about is located here http://tinyurl.com/yexxlyn Also, a couple of demos out (just demos, not product):A small demo example for what “open development” could do:http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/wtr/content.htm Very no-frills browsing by rule number, rule title, core elements, and keyword ...
3D modeling using a webcam
Like | robinna | Nov 26, 2009 | 3D, 3D printers, CMS, Culture, STEaM, STEM
Pretty cool….http://dvice.com/archives/2009/11/humble-webcam-t.php
w3c cheat sheet
Like | robinna | Nov 25, 2009 | tools/tips, training / tutorials, web 2.0+, webdesign
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/11/w3c_cheatsheet_for_developers.html “This cheatsheet aims at providing in a very compact and mobile-friendly format a compilation of useful knowledge extracted from W3C specifications — at this time, CSS, HTML, SVG and XPath —, completed by summaries of guidelines developed at W3C, in particular the WCAG2 accessibility guidelines, the Mobile Web Best Practices, and a number of internationalization tips. Its main feature is a lookup search box, ...