David and I are heading to the Cleveland Web Standards Meetup this evening. Personally, I’m looking forward to it. I’ll be the first to admit that I need to brush up on the current standards, and I’m genuinely curious about what we’ll cover tonight.

Hope to see you there!

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Tags: cleveland, web standards, meetup

We’ve all felt the need to editorialize from time to time in our comments. It can be cathartic to be a smartass when documenting, or name variables in such a way that shows our displeasure with a task. It’s tempting, sometimes, to put something where you think the client or public will never see it. Be warned: it can rebound on you, making you look unprofessional, and, well…like something of a dork to boot.

A good example of this is what just happened in Cool Cleveland. They recently printed an a letter from one of their readers who was offering some thoughtful criticism of the site.

Note, however, the anchor on the link:

That’s enough to get you fired some circles. Learn from this mistake, and be professional.


(found via erie.effusion)

Eric Meyer’s post, The Veteran’s Charge, is a good reminder to call foul if you ever think about putting “best viewed in…” or any version of that on your site.

I know the iPhone is a shiny new toy to some, but to develop sites specifically for it is insanity - especially as one of its selling points is iPhone lets you see web pages the way they were designed to be seen!

Technorati tags: iphone, web standards

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There’s been little activity here for a while now, but I am happy to report that (behind the scenes) stuff is coming together.

Myself & Chris are helping Tina to get Refresh Cleveland back on it’s feet and, hopefully, start the community of developers and designers around here talking to each other more.

We’ll be starting small with a new look, some more regular postings and maybe one or two informal coffee shop get togethers.

The idea is not to be a rival to the Meetup’s or Web Association, but to supplement them, enabling people to talk about what they love and hate about the web-regardless of employer, project or client.

Technorati tags: refreshcleveland, web standards, launch

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So what of support for websites on the Playstation Portable? Before it can be useful in the web 2.0 world, it needs to exist in the web 1.0 world. It seemed doomed from the beginning, but there is always hope, just like for this site. I’ve made my personal website PSP accessible, using some PHP code I found through Google, this page is an excellent resource: http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/reference/psp/. Basically the PHP recognizes what type of User Agent you are using, which can be done through javascript too, and it will put in code specific to that. Too bad there can’t just be a css type declaration to handle it. The PSP can handle basic javascript and even Flash 6. On my personal site, Cyan[c] Design, I can update my dynamic content with my PSP.