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Yep, the internet is on! I think most of the comments I got yesterday all revolved around the fact that I posted all my presentations in PPTX format. I work for Microsoft, and well, I use PowerPoint to create my presentations. I figured most people, even if they didn't have PowerPoint on their machines would at least have the viewer so they could see the slides, but it sounds like quite a few people would rather have a PDF or some other format. So, here you go! TechEd: Top 5 Web Blunders ReMIX: Building Your Own Video Site ReMIX: Implementing Rich UI ReMIX: A Tour Around VS2008 ReMIX: Search Engine Optimization for Rich Media Note that these are stored on my personal website, so I can't guarantee how long they'll last as they're not on an official...
I think that this was my favorite session I did while doing all my ReMIX presentations. It was the one I found most interesting, and most relevant to the work that I do, and see many web developers and designers doing every day. I'm not sure if there is video for this session, but if it shows up, I'll be sure to link to it. In the mean time, I've included the slides for you to check out, and I'll try to get a blog post out about in the next week or two summarizing the info in the deck. Read More...
At TechEd this year, I presented a session where I presented my top five pet peeves on the web, the biggest and easiest problems to avoid on the web. With how easy it is to share content on the web, I felt that these top five things were the best and easiest to get rid of. In order, I felt they were: 5. Unprofessional Site Design 4. Lousy Content 3. Poorly coded HTML/CSS/JavaScript 2. Inappropriate use of Rich Content 1. Not Being POSH I've attached my slides below, so check them out, and let me know what your pet peeves are! Read More...
One of my pet peeves about CSS and HTML standards is sometimes, they aren't overly explicit, and browser vendors pick arbitrary values for things like line height, or margin or padding and the like. Eric Meyer has talked about a reset.css stylesheet that would effectively eliminate those differences and override the browsers value with the ones that you know and you specify. I'm excited to see that he posted a version of it (though reading the comments, it sounds like there will be a few revisions coming) on his blog today. I'd highly recommend checking it out. He based it on the one from the guys at Yahoo! UI , added a few things and tweaked a few others. It's certainly one way to help eliminate those frustrating hair pulling "why isn't this...
I want to thank everyone who came attended today's chat, we had a great turn out this morning! It's a lot of fun to talk to other web developers and web designers. We move forward by talking to you, and hearing what you want, and this is a great opportunity for us, and it's a cool way to help you figure out some of the stuff you're working on. I should also thank you guys for putting up with LiveMeeting instead of a real chat client. We'll be moving into a proper chat client in the near future. There were some problems getting it set up in time for this chat, so we used LiveMeeting instead.. I've posted the transcript online, and we'll be getting it into a more permanant place, I just wanted to get it online and available as quickly as possible...
Just a quick note to about the expert chat tomorrow. It'll be a great opportunity to talk to the IE team about CSS, HTML and other design specific stuff. If you've got questions, this is the place to ask them. Register here We do plan on making it available for download after the session. We had a small problem with the first one, and unfortunately we lost it, but hopefully we won't lose this one. Hope to see you tomorrow! Read More...
We just moved into our new building here on campus (we moved from 42 (good) to 17 (not so good)). I've spent most of the day unpacking so far, and haven't gotten much else done yet. Though I'm back to a window office. I'm right at the edge here on getting a window office. I've been here 5.5 years, and 5 seems to be about the magic number for this tema. The question now becomes how long will I get to keep it until someone more senior comes along. In any event, this new building is interesting. The view out of my window is great, the fact that I CANNOT find the stairs for the life of me, drives me up the wall. I'm the kind of guy who doesn't like taking an elevator for less than 5 floors. I'm on the third, so I'd rather take the stairs. In this...
I just finished my session titled "Internet Explorer 7 From CSS to RSS: How To Take Full Advantage" here at Web Design World, and it went over pretty well. Cameron Moll is currently doing a session right now, so we did lose quite a few people to him, but he's an excellent speaker and is showing some really cool CSS and design stuff, so I understand why they're over there. I talked about some of the cool features around IE7, like what quirks mode is vs. standards mode; how to use RSS on your site, how to implement OpenSearch on your page, and then finally some of the cool CSS fixes that we made for IE7. I've uploaded my slides along with this post so that the info can be shared. I'm don't have the samples that I showed available, but much of...
I just finished teaching "From Prints To Online: Creating Your Own Website" class at PCNW and we found a couple of useful links that I though I would share. Getting listed on the major search engines: Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl Search.MSN.Com: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/free/mobile/request We were also searching for custom colours to use on your website, and when we searched for colors, we came across the Web Color Wheel . It's a pretty neat little site that lets you move the mouse until you find a colour you like, then it gives you the appropriate HTML color codes that you can use to pick the colors. Read More...
A few days ago, I presented a Live From Redmond: Creating Real World Web Application UI with Master Pages, Themes and Site Navigation in an on demand web cast. For my first presentation, it went pretty well. I had never used Live Meeting before, and had only had one Live Meeting "Goofup", where I forgot to shift over to the desktop, instead of the slides. The presentation went well, but admittedly, there was a lot of information presented, an hour was really way too short to do everything that I wanted to talk about. In fact, I cut out a good chunk of stuff as I was moving through in order to get through to site navigation and themes in the last few minutes. In any event, I had said that I would offer the sample for download after the presentation...
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