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Archive, September 2004
Thursday, 30. September 2004
CSS Properties
[11:55 pm]
HTML Dog's CSS Properties contains information about all of the valid properties belonging to the CSS 2.1 standard.
Monday, 27. September 2004
Google Pagerank extension for Firefox and Mozilla
[12:00 am]
One of the few things I missed from the old IE days was Google Toolbar's Pagerank display bar. After I discovered Google Pagerank extension even that annoyance is solved. This extension will display the Google Pagerank in your browser's status bar. Simple right-click temporally disables it.
Friday, 24. September 2004
Tim Berners-Lee Interview
[11:55 pm]
Sir Tim sat down with internetnews.com to discuss challenges facing the W3C.
Perhaps for some, being credited with inventing the World Wide Web would be more than enough as far as life accomplishments go. But for Sir Tim Berners-Lee, it's merely the beginning of something even more fulfilling.
Tuesday, 21. September 2004
Google browser coming soon?
[10:47 pm]
There must be something behind these rumours.
Google Picks Gates' Brains Google, $1.67 billion richer from its August initial public offering, is spending its money poaching the brightest minds from arch-rival Microsoft and other tech giants.
Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft.
By the way, in case you didn't know, Google Services page is a nice shortcut to many Google services. That is where I found out about Picasa, a very practical digital photo organizing and sharing software.
Sunday, 19. September 2004
Baby cockatiels grow up fast
[11:53 pm]
Some of you may wonder how our little baby bird is doing. Well, it is not baby anymore and it is doing pretty good, I would say.
Friday, 17. September 2004
Baby gorilla twins
[02:59 pm]
For your Friday entertainment, a lovely picture of the grandkids of Snowflake, the world's only albino gorilla who died of skin cancer last year. I bet the baby on the right is smiling.
Thursday, 16. September 2004
Web Design Standards
[01:40 am]
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: The Need for Web Design Standards Users expect 77% of the simpler Web design elements to behave in a certain way. Unfortunately, confusion reigns for many higher-level design issues.
There are many good points in this article, but how did he come up with that 77 number? Is web design really so scientific? I like rules, but dislike dogma. For example, do all these principles apply equally to e-commerce, entertainment, personal, hobby websites?
Monday, 13. September 2004
Color Palette Generator
[05:32 pm]
Jeff Minard's Color Palette Generator does a pretty good job of generating a color palette based on an image. Is it difficult to guess from which image the image below was generated? Eyes and paws are hard to miss, don't you think?
Thursday, 09. September 2004
Ten CSS tricks
[12:00 am]
For some nice CSS tricks read Evolt's ten CSS tricks you may not know and Tantek's ten CSS tricks - corrected and improved. Anybody correct Tantek?
Tuesday, 07. September 2004
Girly website
[01:09 pm]
More than 3 years ago(!) I mentioned a funny referral from Google. This entry seems to be very interesting, people, or rather girls, still post their comments to it. Girls are the best. They rock the world. Boys stink. Guys just think their better than the rest but everyone knows that girls rule the earth!
Friday, 03. September 2004
Common mistakes
[03:05 am]
Here's a list, in no particular order, of some of the most common mistakes that even experienced web professionals tend to make.
