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Blind Week
Today marks the first day of Blind Week here in New Zealand. With the CSS Reboot exactly one week away it's a good last chance for all rebooters to make sure that their new websites will accessible for the blind and for those with other vision impairments. The added accessibility is worth both your time and your effort.
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Keri : 1 - Firefox rounding error : 0
I'm still in the middle of my big CSS Reboot redesign/rebuild and last night I hit a surprising problem. After listening to the WE05 Podcasts I decided to opt for a liquid layout but found that certain browser widths were giving me a 1px variance in Firefox. Apparently it's a rounding error in Gecko (not IE for once) and it annoys me something chronic.
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Web Standards ≠ Ugly Websites
I recently emailed my local ISP Orcon telling them why they should switch to a web standards based design. As always it was a compelling argument. A week or two later I found that they'd started converting their website as I had suggested. I haven't heard anything from Orcon so I'm not sure whether or not it was my email that convinced them but never the less, I should have been happy that they'd made the jump right? Well, yes and no.
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CSS Reboot
In one month the face of the world wide web will change forever. Ok, that was a little over-the-top and melodramatic but the point is, exactly one month from today over 650 websites will be changing in unison. It's all part of the November 1 CSS Reboot 2005. They call it the Fall 2005 CSS Reboot, but I won't. For me it's Spring. Some people don't like the Reboot idea, I do. Sure there's a temporary sensory overload as you try to see all the new websites but they're all so beautiful.
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CSS3 Mulitple Backgrounds
Ever wanted to layer multiple backgrounds on a single element? I know I sure have, with my title for instance. I had to worry about adding excess elements just to have something to assign a background to. There's 4 different backgrounds on 4 different elements.
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gVisit
gVisit is a neat little tool that tracks recent visitors to your site and displays the data as locations on a Google Map. The standard version can only track about the last 20 visitors to your site however, if you donate to the development of gVisit you'll be able to track the last 100 visitors as well as remove all advertising.
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My Friend the Enemy
He was once my friend. He would help me everyday and never let me down. He was always there when ever I needed him. I once told everyone how much of an asset he was and how I couldn't live without him.
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Portfolio Online
My portfolio is finally here. This is the first time that I have put together any large collection of my own work. The portfolio currently goes back as far as early 2002 (although I'd like to hunt down some earlier work) and includes over 80 individual pieces of web design with a few logos thrown in.
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I'm a Wild Example
As stated in my last blog entry, I recently converted my contact page to the hCard format. While I was perusing the hCard page the other day I came across something interesting in the Examples in the Wild section of the wiki. It's a link to this very website. A little research into my web-stats and the hCard page history leaves me to believe that Tantek Çelik (co-author of the hCard microformat) came across my last entry while searching Technorati for entries on microformats and decided to post it as an example of an hCard. This is a great honour as Tantek is one of the heroes of web-standards and is one of the people I look up to in my studies to become a better designer. Thank you Tantek.
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Keri Henare Blog v1.2
It's just gone midnight and I've spent a good portion of the day working on this blog. The layout has evolved away from it's Minima roots, in fact it's had a complete rewrite of the stylesheet and html structure. The layout as you can see is still very similar to the older layout but has taken on some of the characteristics of the new logo.
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Keri Henare, the official Logo!
As part of my efforts to make a real go of things with this website I decided that I need something that all the great blogs have, my very own logo.
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StoryBurst and Redefine
Over the last few days I treated myself to some new domains. Firstly, storyburst.co.nz and storyburst.com. StoryBurst is a new project that I've started work on based around interactive story telling, to say anymore would give everything away. I'll keep you informed about StoryBurst once a beta site is fully operational.