Next Monday, 30 November, is International Blue Beanie Day, a day for web professionals to show their support for web standards.
If you’d rather not wear a blue beanie – and this isn’t exactly beanie weather we’re having here – you could always consider adding an illustrated blue beanie to your Facebook or Twitter [...]

I see plenty of talk about web standards and accessibility in the corner of the web I frequent, but what about standards and accessibility for mobility impaired people in other areas… such as toilets? Victoria Brignell, who has a spinal cord injury, writes about the need for greater standards and accessibility design in toilets.
There [...]

A collection of flags from states or empires that no longer exist.

A photo collection of information signage from a range of international airports. An interesting example of how standardised design can almost be a language in itself.
Design high contrast signs to ensure good readability and legibilty of the signage. Colors that work well are a dark background with a light colored text and pictograms. For example [...]

Mozilla warns on Adobe, Microsoft hidden Web agenda
Mozilla’s Tristan Nitot warns of possible hidden agendas Adobe and Microsoft may have in regards to their Flash and Silverlight technologies, and “the dangers of the proprietary Web”.
“So far there has not been a problem,” Nitot said. “Both Adobe and Microsoft have been willing to give [Flash and [...]

Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics
The semantic web is four years old today!
Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers and developers could add semantics to today’s web [...]

Suggestions For Plugin Standards.
A suggested standard, or set of guidelines, for the writers of Wordpress plugins to consider.
Your blog should be as creative as you want it to be when it’s blogging but it needs some standardizing when it’s about technical content, like plugins. A lot of plugin authors are already good about how they [...]

Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites.
Guidance for just the sort of thing all web developers thrive on: the challenge of “web standardising” large, intricate, websites.
So the book starts with the challenges a Web team might encounter while making the switch to a “Web Standards” – based Web development approach. If you [...]

Question: RTF is a standard, true or false?
If 90 per cent (or whatever very high number the figure actually is) of the globe’s computer users are on Windows machines, then that possibly means 90 per cent of us are unaware that the Rich Text Format, or RTF, as used largely in Word documents, is in [...]

The Life and Times of Cool.
An interesting discussion on future trends in web design, which also asks the question, “what is cool today in web design?”
Many of us know in the back of our minds that the future of web design is closely connected with the future of the computers themselves, but we fail to [...]