Valefor

These are all a part of my quickly growing collection of books on web design or relating to it. I always have more I’m interested in picking up, but they’re all so expensive!

Javascript

Simply Javascript

CSS

CSS: The Definitive Guide
Designing with Web Standards
CSS Cookbook
Bulletproof Web Design
The Art & Science of CSS
Transcending CSS

Design

Graphic Design Tricks & Techniques
The Non-designer’s Design Book
Designing a Digital Portfolio
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
Web Design Workshop

Accessibility/Usability

Design Accessible Web Sites
Designing the Moment
Don’t Make Me Think!
Designing the Obvious

Photo

The Complete Guide to Digital Color Correction

Typography

The Non-designer’s Type Book

CMS/Other

Joomla! a user’s guide

Photoshop

The Photoshop Anthology

Lol this article is amazing

But don’t read it if you don’t want spoilers for Battlestar Galactica up to the very end of the third season.

Cylons for McCain

I’m getting disappointed reading the current news coming out of the OLPC camp. The reason I supported the project (and forked over my $400) was for two reasons. 1) I agree with education being the answer to most of the world’s problems and 2) I support open software. This project seemed to endorse both. I feel like both are deeply ingrained within each other. Not only does open software allow for creating awesome machines that are going to be usable for years without corporate lock in, but they also provide a learning experience for everyone regardless or age due to the nature of being able to play and pick apart the machine.

Hearing that the goal for the OLPC project is now to “get the technology in the hands of as many children as possible” I find myself disgusted. From the beginning it wasn’t a “laptop” project but a “education” project. That was stated so many times at talks over the past few years. Now all that has gone away. I’m totally fearful that this is just going to be another corporate sponsored “lock in another generation to our software” project. The world doesn’t need this. The world needs what OLPC was.

I hope the OLPC leaders listen to arguments like these. You aren’t helping anyone by spending money to help Microsoft get XP onto low power laptops. It’s wrong on so many levels. These kids need to be able to explore these systems and learn.

Even more important though is the apparent lack of my number one reason to be interested in the project. EDUCATION should be the primary concern, Not the spreading of technology. If the goal of the project is suddenly to only provide technology then I agree with all of the original naysayers: the money would better be spent on nutrition and poverty projects.

http://fadtastic.net/2008/04/01/awesome-hot-tips-for-your-website-in-2008/

The Universal IE Hack

Another hot tip? Go on then.

Last year saw the launch of IE7. IE6 is still a widely used browser and IE8 beta is out of the starting blocks. A lot of IE hacks? Nope. Simply use the Universal IE Hack. Place the following code in the Head of your document:

<!–[if IE]>
<style>
html, body, * {
  display: none;
}
</style>
<![endif]–>

This supersedes all documented IE hacks to date. Enjoy.

So I came across this website that’s like, a “hot or not” site, except for web pages instead of women, and this site is listed as the worst… or “least hot” if you will

http://www.videosoniclab.com/

L O L seriously

http://weallhatequickbooks.com/

Make sure to scroll down and also resize the window to get the full effect of what they did with this site It’s really neat! One of my coworkers linked it to me.

http://www.webleeddesign.com

Make sure to scroll down

And if you use IE6 (or something else that doesn’t support partially transparent pngs) it won’t work. But if you’re using IE6, upgrade your browser for the love of god.

I have a dentist appointment tomorrow morning Hurray!

Old Mac commercial parody - I will always love this thing.

Why coding to standards is awesome, rap style

I found this out a while ago but amusing nonetheless:

“Linux” is an “inappropriate word” according to XBOX live. To be fair, so is Macintosh - not sure about “Mac” XD