For future reference, the NYTimes.com Art Director says (search for "Visual Consistency") they hand code their site. It still uses a loose DTD and table-based layout, but at least they aren't using DreamWeaver.

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I, like most designers, have been using Photoshop for years. I watched as they added Save For Web (which became Save For Web and Devices) and layer styles. One thing that I have always loved about Photoshop is that I can sample a color and copy the hex value out of the color picker. One thing that has always pissed me off about Photoshop is that not all color picker windows allow copy / paste hex values. Specifically, the matte in Save For Web and the various color pickers for layer styles lack this.

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I kept mum about Internet Explorer 8's version targeting to see how things played out. It looks like Microsoft did the right thing for real web developers.

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There are a lot of people creating graphics for the web. A significant portion of those people have no understanding of how to optimize images. I'll attempt to explain it.

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I've been using the WYMEditor on a little content management system I've been building at work. I was having a problem where I couldn't edit in the HTML editor. Every time I clicked, the HTML textarea in WYMEditor would lose focus.

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According to the BBC, Netscape Navigator is being discontinued. Thank God.

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If you didn't hear, text on a website is better than an image. Images have their place, but many people use images where text should be. In recent times, people have been using a technique called image replacement to replace text with an image. Typically, there are crazy hacks that involve embedded elements, but there is an easier way.

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I ordered a couple domains from GoDaddy a few days ago. I wasn't really surprised when I found an e-mail with the subject Important information about your domain. I was surprised at what was inside.

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Once upon a time, there was KHTML, The K Desktop Environment's Hypertext Markup Language rendering engine. Later, Apple decided to write a web browser. For whatever reason, Apple embraced KHTML, forked it, and created WebKit. There was much pleasure and much gnashing of teeth.

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The new W3C HTML working group launched. The charter states that they'll attempt convergence with the WHATWG's recommendation. I remain a little confused with how the browser vendors will handle this.

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I've been looking at documentation generators recently. Specifically, I'm playing with a new website that I want to do Right. Here are some notes for anyone looking at PHP documentation generators.

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iPhone. Relish it as you say it. Now realize your breath stinks more now than it did before you uttered the word.

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I've been trying to figure out the best way to explain how to do modern, semantic, standards compliant web design. I've been trying to make the point to my current protege that one should first look at a website like a term paper and move on from there. I've formulated a method now that I'd like to outline.

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Some guy named PJ Doland suggested we use rel="NSFW" to markup content that is NSFW.

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MySpace on Cingular phones? Tom made the official announcement today. Is it worth a damn, though?

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It's a really old subject, but I haven't said my piece on the XHTML 1.0 versus HTML 4.01 debate. While commenting on Roger Johansson's blog, 456 Berea Street, I said a little bit about what I think. I figured I ought to go ahead and say my fill.

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Dan decided he wanted to set up a wiki to build content. I wasn't involved in the process, but I got the job of making a bread crumbs script for the site.

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Engadget did a walkthrough of the new Microsoft Zune interface. I smell trouble.

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Surprisingly, SlashDot scooped all the web design websites I normally read on Tim Berners-Lee's announcement that HTML will be incrementally updated (as well as things such as the W3C's HTML validator)

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I was reading Rob Cherny's article Accessible Ajax, A Basic Hijax Example and started thinking a little more about accessibility. Cherney claims that this hijax method, using unobtrusive JavaScript to make a form submit with Ajax instead of traditional POSTing when Ajax is available, is more accessible. While I think it is more accessible than only using Ajax, it is only more accessible for generic alternative browsers; it isn't any more accessible for disabled people.

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Eric Meyer wrote a piece on Vitamin called Stand Up For Your Rights!. I totally misread it the first time, but it gave me a few ideas. I have mentored a few people in web design. Meyer's article made me think a bit harder about how I usually mentor people, and made me realize one good idea for mentoring.

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Internet Explorer 7 has been released. Download it now! Help usher in a new era: an era where Microsoft is actually interested in web standards.

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Everyone hates spam. That is a lie. In order for spam to be worthwhile, some people must be using it (and they supposedly are). But I don't and I don't want it. I have a proposition (that, of course, will fail).

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I want to do a podcast. If you are on my site and you look at the navigation bar, you'll see a heading for it. I just haven't had the time yet, and I've been questioning my original intent. Now, I don't question it as much.

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A recent ruling by a federal court requires that e-commerce websites meet the accessibility standards of the American Disabilities Act. It's about damn time. I've been meaning to install a handicap ramp to get into my site.

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When you get a bunch of geeks together, weird stuff happens.

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Saturday, I got motivated to work on my PVR project that I put aside while I was re-writing this site. While a bottle of vodka makes using a Dremel more interesting, it doesn't improve straight-line cutting ability. I'm happy with the direction it is going.

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So, maybe I missed the scoop. According to IEBlog, it turns out Internet Explorer 7, commonly referred to as IE7, will be released as a high-priority update via Automatic Installation. Or will it?

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When I decided to drive to Portland I figured it'd be nice to talk to people while I drove 15 hours. I wanted to get a decent headset for my phone, a Motorola Razr V3. Since I hate my phone, I wanted to either get a decent bluetooth kit (to use elsewhere) or a cheap wired kit (that I could toss out later). Bluetooth won out. Since it used the same charger as the Razr (mini-usb), the Motorola H700 was an obvious choice. Finding that I don't really use it for the Razr was a drag. But, I have bluetooth on my Mac...

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I admit it. I like Ajax. Sure it's a dumb buzzword. But, as you'll recall, in How To Make an Ajax Chat Room, I said something like, It just turns out XML is slightly more usable for complex stuff and that synchronous requests defeat the point. Though Ajat have many uses. The point I was trying to make is that sometimes sending text back instead of XML is nice. For example, I can send back a 1 if the action was successful. But sometimes that isn't enough. Sometimes, text and XML are both the wrong tools for the job. That's where JSON comes in.

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