Category: Information design

  • Taxonomy primer at Lexonomy

    Lexonomy has published A Taxonomy Primer. Taxonomies are the organizational schemes used to sort the data presented through the information architecture. (via xBlog)

  • Blogger site design contest

    Just as Blogger turned to its userbase to supply alternative templates for Blogger blogs, they are now once again running a contest, this time for their upcoming site upgrade. In fact, from the document’s title bar (“Blogger – Template Contest”), I’d say they used the old contest page as a template. Why do Blogger’s design…

  • CSS toggle bookmarklet

    Scot Hacker passes this along, saying: “Very cool bookmarklet for web developers—open this as a URL, then drag the bookmark icon to your toolbar”: javascript:i=0;if(document.styleSheets.length>0){cs=!document.styleSheets[0].disabled;for(i=0;i<document.styleSheets.length;i++)document.styleSheets[i].disabled=cs;};void(cs=true);. Now you can toggle CSS on and off for any page (with any browser).

  • Everything can be a link (with Mozilla)

    This article, Everything Can Be a Link with Mozilla… describes a method for targetting any subsection of webpage without requiring preexisting name anchor tags. (via Ev)

  • Best Practices with CSS in

    Best Practices with CSS in Dreamweaver MX: This article discusses best practices when using CSS and highlights specific CSS features in Dreamweaver MX. (Fixed the link.)

  • Macromedia extending Flash to Java, .Net app servers

    According to Infoworld: “Macromedia will extend Flash Remoting MX to .Net and Java application servers, enabling Internet application development for these platforms based on Macromedia’s technology.”