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I’ve been reading the Free Software Magazine on-and-off for a few weeks now, whenever something looks particularly interesting. Some stuff is not incredibly impressive, but this article “Creating web pages, the right way” by Mitch Meyran offered a lot of incredibly insightful information as to some of the true considerations for designing a page. [...]

In honor of CSS Naked Day, my website is going naked all day. What does that mean? My website’s style sheet has been removed and all of the content will be displayed as regular old un-styled text, links, lists, and quotes. That means little or no pictures, almost no color, and no [...]

Lots of upgrades for me over the past 24 hours. The most relevant one is that WordPress 2.5 was officially released today, so my blog is now running on 2.5. What does this mean? Well not a whole lot for you readers unfortunately, given that the big changes occurred on the back-end [...]

Browser Shots is a great website to test the cross-browser compatibility of your web designs. Simply enter your URL and see what your website will look like on over 60 web browsers (on 4 operating systems). This is an invaluable tool for web designers. I just submitted my new design.

In their latest newsletter my alma mater UIUC announced that they’re redesigning their website. It looks like it’s very well designed and fairly functional. I’m hoping they offer a non-flash version for people who do not have flash-enabled browsers, but I assume they will. Why did they redesign it? Because [...]