9 month ago
jonhicks : Tango Icon Theme Guidelines - Tango Desktop Project
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Windows XP installation guide - Windows XP installation guide (To read and review)
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Flickr Community Guidelines - We're a community of many types of people, who all have the right to feel comfortable and who may not think what you think, believe what you believe or see what you see. So, be polite and respectful in your interactions with other members
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility: How can you boost your web site's credibility? - We have compiled 10 guidelines for building the credibility of a web site. These guidelines are based on three years of research that included over 4,500 people
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31 month ago
Philippe Janvier : The Accessibility Hat Trick : Getting Abbreviations Right - "By taking the time to pull off the accessibility hat trick, to make our content standards compliant, backwards compatible, and fully accessible, we allow all users to approach our content as equals. That's what AAA-level conformance is about." [via] #
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: The Accessibility Hat Trick: Getting Abbreviations Right - "...abbreviations and acronyms stand out as one of the trickiest areas of AAA to implement well. In order to meet our three-part goal of standards compliance, backwards compatibility, and full accessibility, we need to give this aspect of our content a bi
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31 month ago
François Nonnenmacher : Hindsights by Guy Kawazaki
kayodeok : Hindsights - Delay, as long as possible, the inevitable entry into the workplace and a lifetime of servitude to bozos who know less than you do, but who make more money
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31 month ago
kayodeok : A Naive User's Guide to Running Windows More Securely - OSNews.com - A Naive User's Guide to Running Windows More Securely
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32 month ago
kayodeok : Juicy Studio: Writing a Good Accessibility Statement - Rather than write a statement that the document is semantically correct, explain how your visitors can use these rich semantics to improve their experience on your website. For example, if you have used headings correctly, explain how visitors to your web
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32 month ago
Cameron Moll : Guide to Starting Your Business - Particletree: A Guide to Starting Your Business. Loads of resources here.
kayodeok : Particletree: A Guide to Starting Your Business - A Guide to Starting Your Business
jimray : Particletree · A Guide to Starting Your Business
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32 month ago
kayodeok : Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: W3C Working Draft 23 November 2005 - This document contains principles, guidelines, success criteria, benefits, and examples that define and explain the requirements for making Web-based information and applications accessible. "Accessible" means usable to a wide range of people with disabil
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Safety Tips for Fighting Spyware - The best defense against spyware and other unwanted technologies is to prevent them from getting on your computer in the first place. Awareness is the best approach to protect yourself online, so staying up-to-date on current threats and safe surfing prac
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34 month ago
jkottke : Jakob Nielsen on weblog usability - Jakob Nielsen's latest Alertbox is about weblog usability. I actually think most of these are pretty good, but as with all such guidelines, they are made to be broken. (Comment on this)
kayodeok : Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes - Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author
Linkorama : Weblog Usability - The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
ricmac : Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - useful tips in here.
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34 month ago
kayodeok : XML.com: What Is Web Analytics - What Is Web Analytics
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kayodeok : Explore Google Reader - Your reading list helps you keep up with the latest news and updates from the sites you’ve subscribed to
Paul Hammond : Explore Google Reader - Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web
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34 month ago
kayodeok : Install & Configure Apache, PHP, JSP, & MySQL on Windows XP/2000 - This is a quick guide to install and configure the Apache web-server with PHP and JSP support on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine
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34 month ago
kayodeok : TweakHound's Super XP Tweaking Guide - Bad Tweaks - The following is a list of XP tweaks that either do not work, do not work as advertised, or that are better left alone
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34 month ago
deusx : HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML - "There seem to be developers who think that well-formedness is awfully hardif not impossibleto get right when producing XML programmatically and developers who can get it right and wonder why the others are so incompetent."
kayodeok : HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML - "There’s just no nice way to say this: Anyone who can’t make a syndication feed that's well-formed XML is an incompetent fool. - Maybe this is unkind and elitist of me, but I think that anyone who either can't or won't implement these measur
Simon Willison : HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML - Excellent advice, particularly around character encoding.
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35 month ago
jkottke : Writing sensible email messages - Merlin's excellent advice for writing sensible email messages. This one is excellent advice for email and blog comments: "Emails to a thread are like comments at a meeting; think of both like your time possessing the basketball. Don't just chuck at the ne
WillPate : 43 Folders | Writing sensible email messages - Essential resource for writing productive emails
kayodeok : 43 Folders | Writing sensible email messages - Writing sensible email messages
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35 month ago
kayodeok : Lifehacker's guide to weblog comments - Leaving a comment on someone’s weblog is like walking into their living room and joining in on a conversation
WillPate : Lifehacker's guide to weblog comments - Lifehacker - Everyone tempted to write blog comments should read this.
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35 month ago
philgyford : Technovia: What to do when a PC goes wrong - Ian's excellent guide to what to do if something you buy (not just a PC) goes wrong.
plasticbag : Ian Betteridge explains (to folks in the UK) what to do when a PC goes wrong - Bloody good advice. Really interesting. Little bastards won't know what hit 'em...
kayodeok : Technovia: What to do when a PC goes wrong - If you're in the UK, you're covered by some comprehensive consumer law, honed over the past few decades, that gives you some very good rights
Richard Rutter : What to do when your computer goes wrong - Your rights as a UK consumer. [via Interconnected]
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35 month ago
kayodeok : Beginner's Guide to Professional Word Documents - Microsoft Word is a powerful word processor which, when used correctly, produces smart business documents with a consistent layout and style. For Word to work correctly, however, there are several Golden Rules you need to followed
cobra libre : beginner's guide to professional word documents - here's some thrilling saturday morning reading [via] #
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35 month ago
kayodeok : The Web Standards Project: Best Practices for Declaring Languages in HTML and XHTML - Best Practices for Declaring Languages in HTML and XHTML
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35 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Software Principles - Google Software Principles: other companies should do this too
kayodeok : Google Corporate Information: Software Principles - We believe software should not trick you into installing it. It should be clear to you when you are installing or enabling software on your computer and you should have the ability to say no
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36 month ago
kayodeok : NewsForge | Cygwin brings Unix to Windows - Guidelines for installing cygwin
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Seven Screen Reader Usability Tips [Usability and Information Architecture] - Simply ensuring that your Website is accessible to screen reader users is, unfortunately, not enough to guarantee that these users can find what they're looking for in a reasonably quick and efficient manner
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