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Label for "approved" sites by ZeroExistenZ · 2008-04-17 10:55 · Score: 1 · on Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web?

In Belgium we have an official label,, "blindsurfer", for sites designed for people with a visual handicap.

Every official website is required to put their site up for review, and receive the label as "every citizin should be able to use official services, be them online or not". For example, "tax on the web" is completely tweaked for visually challenged people.

Here's some more indepth about it: Response of a blindsurfer consultant

Too bad the official site (appearantly renamed to "anysurfer") isn't accessible for "English" speaking folks: Anysurfer

Re:All you need is blogs. by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-15 06:52 · Score: 0 · on Best Ways to Learn Graphics Design for the Web?

You score a 0 on layout for the above post. Try:

The only real way to get a 'feel' or an ability for web graphics is to both take some basic photoshop tutorials at sites like:

Then read design blog religiously, blogs like

Then visit some design galleries regularly like

http://webcreme.com/
http://stylecrunch.com/
http://cssmania.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/splat/sets/981332/ is a good flickr pool
http://nn.veracon.net/
http://cssremix.com/
And of course the Zen Garden: http://www.csszengarden.com/

And you're all set.

See how much better with good design?

All you need is blogs. by imageboard · 2007-01-13 00:40 · Score: 0 · on Best Ways to Learn Graphics Design for the Web?

The only real way to get a 'feel' or an ability for web graphics is to both take some basic photoshop tutorials at sites like http://good-tutorials.com/ http://tutorialdash.com/ http://pixel2life.com/ Then read design blog religiously, blogs like http://youfuckwedont.com/ http://veerle.duoh.com/ http://bartelme.at/ http://resource.reh3.com/ Then visit some design galleries regularly like http://webcreme.com/ http://stylecrunch.com/ http://cssmania.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/splat/sets/981332/ is a good flickr pool http://nn.veracon.net/ http://cssremix.com/ And of course the Zen Garden: http://www.csszengarden.com/ And you're all set.

KDE and Gnome have annoying things about them too by Fatalis · 2006-10-20 14:34 · Score: 1, Insightful · on What's Different About Vista's GUI?

X11 has inferior font rendering and quality to Windows hands down. XP had ClearType and many well designed typefaces when it came out 5 years ago, and Vista introduces more good fonts. It's the rare thing that Microsoft got right (the other being marketing). ClearType is even arguably better than Apple's technology, though OS X overall font support is excellent.

I can't understand IT professionals overlooking the practical importance of typography. We all spend hours reading text on computer screens, so it's not just about font literate designer types that suffer seeing subjectively ugly things, it's about everyone that uses a screen.

Re:Microsoft offering UI design guidleines? by Achromatic1978 · 2006-09-23 01:19 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Vista User Interface Guidelines Published

Oh! Witty! Appendix 1 can be all the places Apple breaks said HIG in its own applications.

This is a good read, from an Apple development house.

Re:Fortunately by NickFitz · 2005-09-06 20:21 · Score: 1 · on Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS

A few good places to start:

On the book front, must-reads include: Designing with Web Standards by Zeldman, Eric Meyer on CSS and More Eric Meyer on CSS, and Dan Cederholm's Web Standards Solutions.

Also, Veerle Pieters has a very useful hyperlinked PDF of CSS resources; the associated blog page has more details.

That lot should get you started :-) Hope that helps.

But be warned: like you I'm a hard-core, long-term technical bod, who's done everything from embedded systems software to web development, and it's only after 3 years, absorbing everything I could learn about CSS in theory and practice, and particularly how to conquer the Great Satan IE, that I've finally got to the point I referred to in my original post. To be perfectly honest, I couldn't believe it when I only needed 13 lines of hacks to tame IE on a very complex design.

So when you start, the best bit of advice I can give you is: code and test to Firefox first. If something looks a bit off, check it in Opera 8, and in Safari if you have access to a Mac. Once you've got it working across those three, everything that goes wrong in IE is IE's fault, not yours. That's when you start applying the hacks found at Position is Everything and other places, until IE finally falls back into line.

It's not as bad as it seems; if you have the kind of logical mind that goes with writing code, you'll soon begin to discern the patterns underlying IE's peculiar behaviour. (Virtually everything can be tamed using the Holly Hack, explained at Position is Everything, linked above.)

Good luck, and Enjoy :-)