On Monday, Dave, Ben, Simon and I met up with Ian and Manda, of accessify.com fame, for lunch in the city. Ian and Manda are on a ’round the world’ trip, and Perth is the last bit of the Aussie … Continue reading
Getting Organised
Wow, what a week. We’ve been totally crazy-busy at work. Everyone wants their web site NOW. It’s like Barry and Scott commented on my Dilbert/quality/design post the other day… finding the time to do things properly is really, really hard. … Continue reading
This is the story of my life
As PerthWeb’s resident standards nazi and quality enforcer, I feel that today’s Dilbert almost perfectly describes my life. Poor Dilbert. I know that if something doesn’t validate, it’s not the end of the world. But we have processes and checklists … Continue reading
Web Standards Defined
John Dowdell applauds Russ Weakley for attempting to define the term “web standards”. Russ says that “a site built to web standards should ideally be lean, clean, CSS-based, accessible, usable and search engine friendly.” I would like to point to … Continue reading
Dave is famous
OK, so I looked at my blog today and it politely informed me “No articles have been posted within the last 20 days”. Oops! I’ve been slack… better post something. So here’s news… a guy from the Melbourne Age newspaper … Continue reading
Feedback Please: Blog Calendars etc
It seems like every blog engine has one – a calendar widget in the side bar. But, does anyone (perhaps other than the blog author) ever use it? I’m in the process of setting up Fuseblog 2 on my new … Continue reading
A Better Validator to RSS
It just keeps mutating! Ben Hammersley had the idea and implemented it in Perl, I made a ColdFusion version, Robby Lansaw came up with not one but two improvements (see the comments on my post), and now Bill Rawlinson has … Continue reading
Women Developers
Dave Shea and some other people have raised the topic “where are all the women in css design”? He lists the major blogs discussing the issue so I won’t bother listing them here again. Basically, they seem to be out … Continue reading