WCAG Samurai

The WCAG Samurai Errata for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 are published as an alternative to WCAG 2. “You may comply with WCAG 2, or with these errata, or with neither, but not with both at once.” Published 26 February 2008. Read the intro first.

Happy Cog Studios at SXSW Interactive

Two hot panels, plus bowling.

Alex King’s Twitter Tools

Integrate your Twitter account with your WordPress blog. Archive your tweets, create a blog post from each tweet, create a daily digest of your tweets, post a tweet in your sidebar, and more.

Chopsticks by Carlos Segura

Brilliant! 51 chopstick bags by Carlos Segura assisted by Ryan Halvorsen. In EPS for your raster or vector pleasure.

Can a Gas Station Really Be Green?

Boston design firm builds green gas station in smoggy LA.

48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress

CMS, city guide, history/timeline site, intranet, movie poster and trailer site, network hub, polling site, Feedburner alternative, Twitter clone, many more.

Misleading Marketing Copy

Words and phrases to avoid if you want an honest relationship with your customers.

Pattern inspiration (Veerle’s Blog)

Design inspiration via wallpaper and tiles.

Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior (on Flickr)

Illustrations from the newly published book by Indi Young (Rosenfeld Media, 2008).

A Speck of Sunlight Is a Town’s Yearly Alarm Clock

On March 8, the sun will rise again in Longyearbyen, the first time since October.

Dockdrop

Free Mac OS X application lets you share files fast. Drag any file or folder onto the Dockdrop dock icon, then choose how you want to send it. Dockdrop uploads it and puts a URL for your upload on the clipboard, ready for pasting into an email, chat program or website.

Official Google Maps API Blog: Google Maps Without the Scripting

The Google Static Maps API provides a simpler way to add maps to your website. Rather than use JavaScript, the Google Static Maps API creates map images on the fly via simple requests to the Static Maps service with HTTP requests.

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9 Responses to “Monday links”

1. . Todd Lambert » a bluesman in the back, and a beautician at the wheel } said on 9 April 2008 at 8:42 am:

   Web Design for ROI: Chapter 3, Managing for ROI(Day After) Thursday Roundup for the Week of 3/30/08Pulling a Fast One: A Clever Internet Marketer Is Trying to Trademark “SEO”Microsoft reverses version targeting defaultMonday linksZeldman on Talk Radio TodayPodcast news

2. Http://www.mostpopularsites/newsfeeds/view/ said on 18 March 2008 at 10:51 am:

   by default” takes precedence over “supporting all those badly made websites that were created specifically to work in IE.” A List Apart 254: Design, Design Issue No. 254 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about design.Monday linksChopsticks by Segura. A greener LA via Boston. Stealing patterns, making models. Samurai errata and SXSW bowling. Night and day Two homeless men have taken up residence in the temporary supply hut of the Chinese Embassy construction on the

3. GraphicDesignBar:Design Forum said on 6 March 2008 at 3:05 pm:

   beautiful vintage patterns that largely range within a limited color palette of golds, oranges and neutrals. Her post also includes a big list of links to pattern sites like Squidfingers (previously mentioned here). [viaZeldman]

4. GuyWeb said on 5 March 2008 at 12:18 am:

   A goldmine of useful and relevant links from Zeldman

5. mezzoblue § Home said on 4 March 2008 at 11:00 pm:

   me to a good theme that someone’s selling for actual cash money, that’s also doing well? I think crickets are chirping. I’ve seen some other interesting ideas at places like T.26 and their chopsticks packages designed by Carlos Segura (hat tip:Zeldman), and moving a little further out, more traditional products at indie designer stores like Meomi and Gama-Go. It seems a bit ironic that moving away from the web and into physical products is the most obvious path for web designers to pursue; I wonder

6. 
   Rob @ CSSnewbie said on 3 March 2008 at 11:43 am:

   The Entrepreneur article on marketing copy is fairly useful — although I was pretty entertained to see that my company uses the first three of the “bad five” with fair frequency. :)

   Also, thanks for the Google Maps API link! This might help me enormously in a project I’m working on for aforementioned employer.

7. 
   johno said on 3 March 2008 at 1:43 pm:

   DocDrops is a great idea. Thanks.

8. 
   Shane said on 3 March 2008 at 2:37 pm:

   I’ve only just started using Twitter, and did some research yesterday on integrating it into a wordpress site.

   Would I be right in saying you use this?

   I found it to be extremely easy to implement and the JavaScript is well written.

9. 
   Scott Lenger said on 3 March 2008 at 3:13 pm:

   Nice to finally have a google map that degrades.

10. 
    Carissa said on 3 March 2008 at 8:38 pm:

    Normally, I don’t post to point out people’s mistakes because it’s kind of rude and presumptuous, but I thought you might like to know that, on the Happy Cog site, the date is wrong for Saturday, which is the 8th, not the 9th. People might be confused! And it seems that event is really on Sunday…

11. 
    Jake Lazaroff said on 3 March 2008 at 10:08 pm:

    Twitter Tools is up and running on my blog. Thanks for pointing me to it! :]

12. 
    Dan Mall said on 4 March 2008 at 5:54 am:

    on the Happy Cog site, the date is wrong for Saturday, which is the 8th, not the 9th. People might be confused! And it seems that event is really on Sunday…

    Whoops! The info is correct now, so hopefully there isn’t any confusion. Thanks Carissa!

13. 
    Jeffrey Zeldman said on 4 March 2008 at 10:03 am:

    Thanks, Carissa.

    Would I be right in saying you use this?

    No I just use some JavaScript and chewing gum.

    When I redesign the site (soon! really soon!) I may add Twitter Tools.

14. 
    Kyle Steed said on 7 March 2008 at 12:26 pm:

    Thanks for the links. My favorite was the story done on the town Longyearbyen in Norway. It makes me want to visit there sometime.