30 days to a more accessible web site. This book answers two questions. The first question is "Why should I make my web site more accessible?" The second question is "How can I make my web site more accessible?"
Create easily your own ajax loader icon :
1. Select the type of indicator you want
2. Enter the background code color you want
(tick "Transparent background" if you don't want one
3. Enter the foreground code color you want
Press "Generate it"
IAwiki is a collaborative knowledge base for the topic of InformationArchitecture. Anyone can contribute, and there are no pre-registration hoops to jump thru ... just click the "Edit This Page" link at the bottom of any page.
The site is about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language. It features real-live examples from desktop applications, web sites, web applications, mobile devices, and everything in between.
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its' primary role is to make web designer's life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.
css-discuss is a wiki with real-world uses of CSS. A place with very practical hints, tips & tricks and guidelines. The wiki is a companion to the CssDiscussList mailing list and serves as a collective long-term memory for the list participants.
The UML based Guibot tools establish fast, clear, and accurate requirements by implementing the Cockburn Use Case format with automated GUI prototyping and automated Activity Diagram production via the notation Extended Activity Semantics.
Opensourcetesting.org aims to boost the profile of open source testing tools within the testing industry, principally by giving users easy access from one central location to the wide range of open source testing tools available.
CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise. The CSS optimizer is based on the CSS Tidy parser.
Mapstraction provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching. Developers can code their applications once, and then easily switch mapping provider based on project needs, terms and conditions, and new functionality.
curvyCorners is a free JavaScript program that will create on-the-fly rounded corners for any HTML DIV element, that look as good as any graphically created corners.
Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.
GeSHi is a syntax highlighter for HTML, written in PHP. Basically, you input the source you want to highlight and the name of the language you want to highlight it in, and GeSHi returns the syntax-highlighted result.
The Thumbshots Ranking Tool allows you to perform your own search engine comparisons, and displays the results visually, making it easy to see both the rankings and comparative positions of pages in search engine results.
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution for developers to get into the world of Apache. It contains MySQL, PHP and Perl. To make it convenient for developers XAMPP is configured with all features turned on.
CocoaMySQL is an application for Mac OS X used to manage MySQL databases. It lets you add and remove databases and tables, view and filter the content of tables, add, edit and remove rows, perform qustom queries, dump tables and databases.
