- Information Overload? My name is Laura and I confess, I’m an addict.
October 8th, 2008
Information overload is one area of my work that is a constant. In the past recent weeks, I took some time away from the desk and computer with a pencil and big sheet of paper in hand. I hadn’t intended on blogging about it, but a recent message on one of my social networks [...]
- Working towards a new world of Interoperability and Accessibility? It’s not here yet…
September 7th, 2007
In the web design arena, there is currently a lot of discussion about how and where the ‘web’ is headed. With the concepts and available draft of of HTML 5, and the air of disappointment to many that it potentially is not necessarily going to enable better accessibility to all. On the other side [...]
- Getting YouTube code to validate (updated)
July 26th, 2007
When I moved my blog over to Wordpress after blogging neatly and perfectly and in control with the most excellent Modx, I began to use many of the gizmo’s and widgets which make my blog abit more ‘Web 2.0′.
Usually when designing sites, I don’t use other people’s bits of code or plug-ins, as I am designing purely for the purpose of creating a custom site for a purpose for the client. But with Wordpress and enjoying the ease of blogging and playing, I’ve ventured into ‘widget world’ and ‘embedding objects’ too. So what is my problem with alot of it?
Validation – YouTube and many others bits of code meant my site failed validation of its mark up with the W3C Validator. But I did find an easy cure to remedy this nasty condition…