Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
CSS3 Image Styles is a terrific tutorial explaining how to use CSS3 and background images to do some very cool things.
You can now read HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith online. This is an excellent book, go read it. The site is built in HTML5. Look under the covers.
I’d like to examine this infographic of the history of web standards. I can’t zoom it large enough to read. That’s my problem with most infographics. Got any good ideas about how to make it readable?
What does Hue, Saturation, Luminosity Mean in Your Image Editor is a video that will help you grok what HSL is all about.
HTML5: Briefing notes for journalists and analysts from HTML5 Doctor might include ‘instructors who haven’t had time to keep up with HTML5’ in the title.
What are Mac users doing about photos since Google+?
My current status is to use iPhoto and upload what I want to share to Flickr.
Whether Flickr is going to fade away due to neglect on Yahoo’s part, or whether Google+ is going to take over the world – it looks to me like it might be wise to think about an alternative to my current status.
Which brings up the question above. Here are some questions I have.
Google is promoting a new image format called WebP – pronounced weppy. They announced it last September. At that time, they said,
Some engineers at Google decided to figure out if there was a way to further compress lossy images like JPEG to make them load faster, while still preserving quality and resolution. As part of this effort, we are releasing a developer preview of a new image format, WebP, that promises to significantly reduce the byte size of photos on the web, allowing web sites to load faster than before.
It’s supported in Chrome and Opera at this time. Just this week, the Chromium Blog announced WebP in Chrome, Picasa, Gmail With a Slew of New Features and Improvements with even more support for the format. This post also details recent quality improvements in the way WebP images are created.
Use either Chrome or Opera to look at this gallery. You can see the bandwidth savings WebP offers.
If you’re interested in learning more about how you can start producing WebP images right now, see the Chromium blog and the WebP Home page. There are available Photoshop plug-ins, open source tools, and other tools for working with WebP images.
You might also be interested in reading this critical article by Jeff Muizelaar.
You Can Rent Photoshop and other Adobe Software gives you some useful and potentially helpful information.
The New RFP says RFP and procurement process for software should start with finding software that doesn’t suck.
Speaking of Adobe, because of an open SDK, developers are now creating Photoshop apps for tablet devices. Adobe Turns the Tablet Into a Photoshop Companion.
Here’s one for the educators. Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet, It’s Higher Education. I’m looking forward to the discussion on this one – check out the comments at TechCrunch.
This is a good introduction to how you use multiple CSS3 backgrounds. It’s from the Think Vitamin series. There are many good videos in the series.
NTC Plenary: Moira Gunn and Rep Donna Edwards on Net Neutrality is an interesting account of an important conversation.
I feel kind of bad now from The Bloggess (language warning whenever The Bloggess is involved) is funny but a perfect reflection of the kind of crazy PR email bloggers receive all the time. Jenny’s tactics are much funnier than my tactic.
This video is worth watching. Starting about half-way through, it gets into mapping public conversation and broadcast media in ways that I think you’ll find fascinating. There are many potential implementations of data mapping like this.