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Entries from May 2007

Delicious Irony

May 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

I love how Mail.app thinks the new ProofPoint Junk Mail Digest is itself “Junk Mail”

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Tags: E-mail

The Importance of Page Titles

May 18th, 2007 · No Comments

This is hardly new information, but it’s clear that it bears repeating. Every finals week we see a surge in the number of Google hits for our posts with “Finals Week” in the title and header tags. Unfortunately we don’t have the information people are looking for. We did go back and […]

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Tags: Accessibility

Validating YUI

May 16th, 2007 · No Comments

It is just me or did anyone else notice that iGoogle (aka Google Personalized Homepage) is now using YUI Grids ? Talk about validating the direction you’ve choosen for adapting a framework: both Yahoo and Google are now using the YUI Grids framework. Mega Cool.

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Tags: CSS · Web Design

Attack of the YUI

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments

A very subtle change occurred on campus today. No, it wasn’t the mysterious JunkMail Digests that appeared in our inbox, rather a step forward toward a better future.

At the request of Public Affairs, we updated the Public Facilities page. With the ATI we’ve been cleaning up some of the pages on the campus web server […]

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Tags: Accessibility · Microformats · Web Design

On “Best Practices”

May 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Lately this phrase has been getting a lot of use. It’s hard to bring up problems with “best practices” as the reaction might be framed as if you were advocating “worst practices.” That being said…

What defines “best?” In a recent ALA article, “Educate Your Stakeholders!” they actually give a very good definition.

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Tags: Project Management