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Article: What’s Next? The Same Thing! @ The Autistic Cuckoo

Many ask what web standards are. Here’s the list that web standards prevent.

Web Standards prevent:

• lack a specified document type,
• contain invalid (X)HTML,
• use tables for layout,
• require a particular browser to work,
• require client-side scripting to work,
• require third-party products such as Flash to work,
• cannot be used by people with disabilities,
• are semantically meaningless,
• are unnecessarily heavy to download, thereby also placing unnecessary load
  on the server,
• force links to … Continue Reading
  

Link: http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/

This Macromedia Flash color scheme matcher is very nice for determining contrasting colors for layouts. Simply insert a hex value then the results are computed on the fly. 3 color hex values from the same tint plus 2 grayscale hex color values are given to you. A must have when developing a color scheme for a site.

Link: Happy Cog Studios: Zeldman Video Keynote

Zeldman presents a very entertaining video on the history of web standards and how it is revolutionizing society. He highlights four other members of A List Apart and their main contributions to the Web Standards Project.

Article: Jason Santa Maria | Grey Box Methodology

Great article on the methodology of designing a web site. You start with pen and paper freeing yourself of technology to create a design. Next you move on to Illustrator using the ‘Gray Box Methodology”. This step allows you to create a perfect functional layout without worrying about which font works best or which color to use. You have a simply grayscale layout to look at. Then you finally move on to implementing the CSS / XHTML / FLASH / PHOTOSHOP graphics and coding at the end … Continue Reading

Was about my business tonight surfing and found a link to Audible.com — an Online Store for Digital Audio Books. Quite an amazing online business and very well run. Their offer (free month subscription and one free audiobook) caught my attention and I signed up. Within 10 minutes of signing up I recieved my free audiobook of my choice, The Face by Dean Koontz. You have the option to select from 4 different audio qualities to download, plus the option to stream. It took me all of 5 minutes to download the first half … Continue Reading

I opened up my mission call last night! I’m going to the Kennewick Washington Mission! I report to the MTC Jan. 26, 2005. I will be serving for 2 years teaching in english for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! After waiting long enough I’m excited to finally have the opportunity to get out! I’m thankful that all my family and friends could be there to support me when I opened my call! I am humbled to think that I will be a representative of Christ for two years … Continue Reading

Functional Play

Very effective use in Flash User Interfaces. Try out his site! Very fun to play with his experiments and a great use of flash usability.

Penner Tweens, created by Robert Penner, use built-in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 classes to script tweens. This is the touch of class that adds to any flash application / navigation / presentation. To set it up, you define an ease type, then apply the ease type to a Tween object.

[FLASH] /wordpress/swfs/clickdemo.swf , 400, 150 [/FLASH]

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Create a new flash document (File -> New… -> Flash Document)

Double-Click ‘Layer 2′ and label it “A” (for Actions). We will place all actionscript on this layer.

Create a new layer (Insert -> Timeline … Continue Reading

Want to enjoy yourself combating 30 others at spelling words with Refridgerator Magnets? With Flash Communication Server, FlashCom Guru made it possible.

Try it out!

I sit here, in bland constant pain due to my tooth, wondering why in the crap it still hurts. I’ve hit the recommended usage of ibuprofen and tylenol for the day, still wondering why I can’t close my mouth. On a happier note, I hit the Good Charlotte / Sum 41 concert at the McKay Events Center at UVSC last wednesday. It was an amazing show. Good Charlotte put up a good performance… right next to zebrahead, but still not as good. We hit IHOP afterwards and had some fun chillin … Continue Reading