11.13.08
Posted in web 2.0 at 9:16 pm by admin
I have been reading a lot lately about our new president elect, Barack Obama, and how he is setting the standard for being the first president who understands the power of the internet and how to harness such sites as youtube, facebook, myspace and his own web site to get the message out, develop a database with thousands of names of your supporters, create viral videos and rebuke the attacks being made by your opponents. I agree Barack is one politician along with his on the ball team that understand the power of the internet and being able to get communication out to the masses. The Barack Obama team has even set up a web site detailing the transition and additions to his cabinet at change.gov.
After having endured the last 8 years of a president who referred to our electronic communications system as “the internets”….like there was two of them? It is refreshing and encouraging to have someone in the highest power in the land who is smart, not only on politics, the economy, healthcare and foreign policy, but also smart in knowing the internet can be a powerful medium for communication and bring people together in the 21st century.
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10.29.08
Posted in web 2.0 at 10:47 pm by admin
Like most people, I learned how to initially design in HTML using clunky ole tables with no CSS..what’s CSS? Hell this was 1998 for goodness sakes. Then eventually I did learn a little CSS to make my table layout a lil’ easier to manage and pretty up a bit. Slowly and often painfully I eventually learned to develop and style entire websites using semantic W3C approved XHTML and CSS. I say painfully because often I would test in my beloved Firefox browser and everything of course would look wonderful and then I would test in IE and everything would look like sh*t…I would be like OMG! WTF? IDK what happened but this is not what my code should be looking like! Eventually I would break down and write conditional comments to compensate for IE’s shortcomings as the browser relates to CSS display. Not very efficient, not much fun, but with the varying browser support relating to CSS…it had to be done.
Recently I came across an eye opening article relating to CSS and table layout. It is important to me because a new way of styling div tags in order to emulate the structure of tables is detailed. This is key because you don’t have to deal with some of the erratic interpretation of the way I was previously coding CSS that I was pulling my hair out over.
Some examples of the CSS are:
#main {
display: table;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
#nav {
display: table-cell;
width: 180px;
background-color: #e7dbcd;
}
#extras {
display: table-cell;
width: 180px;
padding-left: 10px;
border-right: 1px dotted #d7ad7b;
}
#content {
display: table-cell;
width: 380px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
this is very cool and I plan to develop layout of sites using this method in the present future. Kudos to Digital Web Magazine and Rachel Andrew for writing about this new method…at least it is new to me! Oh yea and before you ask, this method adheres to W3C web standards and is semantic mark-up which is beneficial for those with disabilities.
The full article can be found here.
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10.09.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:30 pm by admin
I have had a Facebook account for sometime now, but didn’t use it much until recently. I was more active on LinkedIn and MySpace, but I definitely think that Facebook is becoming the go to social networking site and is an excellent resource to reconnect with old friends and maybe make a few new friends in the process.
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10.01.08
Posted in web 2.0 at 10:29 pm by admin
In the United States
- 10m people have a vision impairment
- 28m people have a hearing impairment
- 8m people have a physical disability
- 6.8m people have a learning disability
- 25m people have dyslexia
However, as web designer/developers we rarely think about those with disabilities when we are designing/developing.
I came across a great article recently which details what we should do, and not do when creating a site.
Please visit the article here.
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09.30.08
Posted in Politics at 10:43 pm by admin
I read all of them that are put in front of me. Just like Sarah Palin.
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09.28.08
Posted in My life, current topics, web 2.0 at 5:05 pm by admin
I was watching Larry King the other night and Chris Rock was his guest discussing the upcoming election. He was his usual funny self, but I thought his humor was also very smart and dead on. When Laryy King asked Chris if he was proud to have a black man running for president (Borack Obama), he indicated that he supported Obama because of his policies and he liked him as a man, not just as a black man.
Very well said. Chris Rock for President!
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