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Speaking at WordCamp Buffalo 2013
This Saturday I will be speaking at Buffalo’s second WordCamp. Last year was a great day-long event filled with many good speakers (not just me!), so I am looking forward to being an attendee as well....
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My WordCamp Buffalo 2013 Presentation: Making Your Site Printable
Today I spoke at Buffalo’s second WordCamp. I am a casual WordPress user, not a developer, though my decade-and-a-half experience with multiple blogs and content management systems (even writing our...
View ArticleSlides: Responsive Web Design Primer
Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting the University at Buffalo (my alma mater) to give a presentation for its CIT professional development series. I got to talk about responsive design. Knowing in...
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Print Styles Are Media Queries
I have alluded to this point in the past. Usually when I get off on a rant about print styles, I lump it into the overall process of making responsive sites and I use media query formatting in my...
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“Tracking Printed Pages (or How to Validate Assumptions)” at Web Standards...
Today my second article at Web Standards Sherpa has been posted, Tracking Printed Pages (or How to Validate Assumptions). I fit a lot in there, but the gist is that I show you how to track when and...
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Printing from Mobile Has Improved
With more and more people relying on a mobile device as their primary computing platform, it stands to reason that more and more mobile users may want to print web page content — whether directly to a...
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Speaking at CSS Summit
In just under two weeks the 6th annual online, live CSS and SASS conference, CSS Summit, will be underway and I have been asked to speak on print styles. You don’t have to deal with airports, hotels,...
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CSS Summit 2014 Slides: Making Your Site Printable
This afternoon I awkwardly stumbled through my talk for CSS Summit, Making Your Site Printable. I can tell you that speaking to a screen instead of to a room full of people is a whole different...
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Speaking at Booster Conference in Bergen
A couple days ago I mentioned that I’d be speaking at the Ace! Conference in Krakow. I also suggested I might have other speaking gigs around the same time in Europe. Now I can announce that I’ll be...
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Booster Conference Slides: Making Your Site Printable
Giving my talk at Booster. Photo from Booster by Tatiana Kolesnikova. I’ll fill this up with notes and other content later, but in the meantime here are the slides from my talk this morning: I’ve...
View ArticleWeb Design Myths
Net Magazine asked followers on Twitter to submit any web design myths they wanted busted: Got a web design myth you want busted? Let us know and we'll print the best tweets in the mag! — net magazine...
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Accessible Emoji, Tweaked
Léonie Watson recently posted Accessible Emoji, a simple technique to make emoji characters accessible to those with screen readers. It requires a little bit of extra effort when inserting an emoji...
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Punch-Out Avatar
I built this on a whim after seeing some terrible examples on Stack Overflow, so unlike other demos I build there was no immediate application. That means it may or may not be useful as-is. Variation...
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A Responsive Accessible Table
Painfully slow demonstration of the example table resizing and different media queries kicking in. After writing (again) that it is ok to use tables, and after providing quick examples of responsive...
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Links List for Print Styles
I should qualify that I started writing this script and CSS, based on another experiment of mine, before I saw Aaron Gustafson’s 2005 ALA post Improving Link Display for Print. He uses similar...
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Periodic Table of the Elements
iframe { max-height: 95vh; } I built this for me. An audience of one. A way to keep sharp the skills that I am not always able to use on a project. My requirements were simple: responsive (print,...
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