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BlueOxen has a Wiki implementation with perma-links. Kinda oxymoronic, but cool.

Oh, yeah! Sept 4, Dodge Theater, Phoenix…

“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC!

A good friend, who will remain nameless got tickets to Weird Al for his birthday, and could only find one person dorky enough to want the other one. Me!

Jim points out that we’re back on the air. Yay!

I’m reading Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into Accessibility site, and also Joe Clark’s Building Accessible Websites. Both are invaluable websites.

However, as a designer, I must note that both “suffer” from a very minimalistic approach to the design. I’d like to see some sites that are attractive and expressive and are still accessible.

Update: Just as I was about to post this I remembered the CSS Zen Garden, which is both visually stunning, and Bobby AAA and Section 508 certified. Not bad!

If you’re working on making a site accessible, and need to know what it means to satisfy level 1, 2, or 3 of conformance to the Web Accessibility guidelines, here’s the checklist.

I’m about to start a site for an organization that works with the visually impaired, so I thought I’d dig up Mark Pilgrim’s excellent resource, Dive Into Accessibility.

Man, oh man. So I got my PC today, a hand-me-down from my dad. I needed something to test out the sites I’ve been developing on, and I’m sad to say I’ve looked them over.

Now, I’m not really a wild designer - I don’t do anything too crazy on the sites I create. But on every one of my recent sites there’s some little thing that is not working right in IE 6/Win.

Here it’s the main navigation bar. Here it’s the text in a table cell. On this site it’s all the text on the page! Yikes!

Ok, so I’ve got some serious research to do. This is highly unacceptable.