“In the last few weeks I’ve been noticing more and more people reworking existing sites to prove a point. Many of these, such as those done by Matthew Somerville, serve a need — taking an otherwise inaccessible site and making a fully functional version that is accessible to those who wouldn’t be able to use it otherwise. This is a useful service and should be commended. Unfortunately, your site reworking isn’t quite as useful.”

Tools “[Here] you will find document templates, process map posters and other tools to help you in your practice. The documents, which have been donated by various people in the organization, have been found to be useful at one time or another. Items can be use

“Active PHP Bookmarks (APB) is a web-based program that allows you to store your bookmarks and display them in many useful ways. It will sort your bookmarks with usability in mind, keeping often-used bookmarks at your fingertips. It has a bookmark search, private/public bookmarks, nested groups, usage rankings, popularity sorting, and a quick add feature.”

“Active PHP Bookmarks (APB) is a web-based program that allows you to store your bookmarks and display them in many useful ways. It will sort your bookmarks with usability in mind, keeping often-used bookmarks at your fingertips. It has a bookmark search, private/public bookmarks, nested groups, usage rankings, popularity sorting, and a quick add feature.”

“PhotoFont is an exciting new technology that allows you to use bitmapped type, in color, with transparency, in your webpages and still retain searchability, linkability, copyability and indexability of the text. PhotoFont is an open standard.”

“There are many ways to use accents in documents and programs. I prefer to use an international keyboard most of the time. Sometimes, however, that is not an option. Here are a few of the ways that you can get accents without changing the keyboard settings. I have also included HTML options for those who choose to code by hand.”

“PhotoFont is an exciting new technology that allows you to use bitmapped type, in color, with transparency, in your webpages and still retain searchability, linkability, copyability and indexability of the text. PhotoFont is an open standard.”

“This document is written for ISSN registrars. It will explain the compatibility of Weblogs and ISSN registration. People who publish and maintain Weblogs have applied for ISSNs. Some registrars have immediately registered the Weblogs; others have categorically refused to register Weblogs at all; and still others have reluctantly or selectively registered them. The evidence, however, indicates there are no justifiable reasons not to register Weblogs for ISSN providing they meet the regular criteria.”

“A one-day event held in downtown St. Louis, at the dynamic City Museum, on Saturday, September 27th spotlighting small-press comics publishers and creators.” Guests include Charles Burns and Gary Panter, and of course, local heroes Dan Zettwoch, Ted May and Kevin Huizenga.

“If you were to name a thriving St. Louis art form, one in which a few of our citizens are stars and are putting the city on the cultural map, you’d name minicomics, right? Well, maybe not yet. But in the twenty-first century, the Lou is a big dot on one specific (little) canvas. A few amazing artists are creating small, handcrafted comic books — minicomics — that are receiving accolades within the thriving American comics community.”

“This Web site is an open letter to Apple, maker of the world’s best-looking computers and operating system, asking it not to implement the ugly look of brushed metal in the next version of the Finder.”

“Here is a set of tables containing the 252 allowed entities in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0, as described in section 24 of the official HTML 4 specifications, published by the W3C. I have divided them into my own, hopefully logical, categories.”

“At the tattoo parlor, Marcus Gonzales found a list of Chinese characters and picked ’strength’ and ‘courage.’ His Tai-chi teacher finally confessed that they really say ‘dog’ and ‘puppy.’”

There are still a few spots left for the Friday, October 3rd Chicago workshop. Sign up now! “Business blogs are taking off. Are you up to speed? Learn how your business can harness the power of weblogs to improve communication and efficiency at this hands-on workshop.”

Yet another slick color picker.