macosxhints – Disable the touch switches on Apple LCD monitors Hold down Shift and Command and then click on the Displays preference panel. Quit System Preferences, then hold down Shift and Command and touch the Brightness switch on the front of the monitor. Gotta love hidden features.
macosxhints – 10.3: A fix for local drives not mounting until user login
WordPress Support — MT Migration and philosophical musing
Containing Floats (Complex Spiral Consulting)
Floatutorial: Some definitions Can’t really get enough information and repitition of CSS subjects! It just won’t die… I have had trouble the last few days declaring a float:right on one item and having it come below the previous item rather than to the right of it even though the previous item does not occupy all […]
mezzoblue ��� Positioning and the Cascade A great tip from David Shea at mezzoblue… unraveling the abstracts of CSS one string at a time. Thanks DS for the content. Is is a combination of reading the spec and figuring this logic out? Or is it pure trial and error? I vote for latter.
O’Reilly Network: Speed up Safari [May. 21, 2004]
Been thinking about the home page, and the site with regard to a search field on every page instead of a link to a search page. What comes first? Giving people the easy way to search or attempting to get them into your content? Some studies show that people look in the middle of the […]
Navigation Study on Current University Websites Ken Kelleher prepared a useful overview of IA challenges on University web sites. Our main points he describes: – varied audiences – site architecture (taxonomy) vs. faceted view (audience gateways) He also lists a lot of the references I have in my bookmarks. This is a paper I have […]
Brown has an interesting entry point into their course web site pages. Essentially turns browsing course web pages into an application for viewing the data in different ways. You can filter based on department and semester. Very easy to do (given the right background architecture and likely increases the usability a lot.