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Every Penny Counts

Wed, August 13, 2008 — Category: Humor

I know the government accountants can be anal retentive…

I found this job posting today for the Housing Authority of the County of Monterey.

I am curious what the “wriggle room” is on salary negotiations.

$22.3495

I may really need that last 5/1000’s of a penny :)

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Homer Simpson CSS (Animated) = AcidX

Wed, April 30, 2008 — Category: UI Design

I was waiting for someone to do something cool after having seen the acid2/3 tests of late. Looks like Homer CSS is the first iteration of pure CSS amazement.

Thanks to Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks for pointing out this little ditty….from Román Cortés.

Below is a screenshot of the infamous character Homer Simpson, created from CSS.

Homer CSS - AcidX

I look forward to seeing more “AcidX” variations in the future — the successor to CSS Zen perhaps?

For those interested, the “acid tests” are available at acidtests.org: an effort to provide a litmus test for W3C and standards compliance among browser makers with respect to CSS (acid2) and CSS/JavaScript (acid3).

Update: Checkout the animated version of Homer CSS…and the George Bush CSS.

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How “CSS Naked Day” became “Un-usable Day”

Fri, April 11, 2008 — Category: Accessibility

At this moment I realized “CSS Naked Day” went against good usability practices…

For those who don’t know, “CSS Naked Day” is once a year, where design-related bloggers remove their CSS files for the 24 hour period starting April 9th.

I got a little frustrated yesterday, having to redesign tabs for work while looking for resources on a good two-layer tabbed navigation, many of the sites that usually have good examples were “Naked” yesterday.

At this moment I realized “CSS Naked Day” went against good usability practices that state your site should be accessible and usable. Looking for sites that normally would have been great resources for HTML and CSS became rather impossible to see the examples.

I decided not to remove my CSS files I wouldn’t have had an alternative of allowing CSS to be enabled. Wordpress has a CSS Naked Day plugin — I suggest that perhaps an alternative link at the top of the page that says “Enable CSS” would suffice with a brief explanation of why the original design is missing in the first place.

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