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Weekend Must Reads

It has been quiet around here, but no more! Allow me to interest you in a few fabulous links:continue reading »

Abusing Accessibility Techniques

Roger Johansson has yet again written an excellent article on how accessibility techniques are misused. And I just realised how pertinent that article is with regards to my note on accessibility in singapore websites. Of course, the PDF by Patrick...continue reading »

Building websites with baseline grid...

...is now a breeze thanks to [Syncotype](http://robgoodlatte.com/2007/07/31/syncotype-your-baselines/). Works on Opera 8+, IE 7, Ffox 1.5+, Safari 2-3. continue reading »

Negative Margins : The Secret Weapon

I came across an article on [negative margins](http://www.search-this.com/2007/08/01/the-positive-side-of-negative-margins/) this week and immediately realised how much potential they have which not many people use for. continue reading »

Yslow

Yahoo Developer Network has been going great guns giving us YUI and what not. Now they have unveiled a new tool for measuring and fixing your site's performance called [Yslow](http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/).continue reading »

Paperweight

At work we’re busy redoing the entire Ministry of Education website. One of the problems with every redesign / realign / redo of a major site is the migration of existing content. It would be easy to port everything verbatim...continue reading »

The New Yorker

I’ll admit that it wasn’t love at first sight. Khoi Vinh’s Subtraction 7.0 took a bit of getting used to. For starters, the stark black and white had enough contrast to punch a hole through your retinas. Then there was...continue reading »