Quickly and easily make those little pixellated font buttons that you see linking XML files, web sites, etc…

“The typographic contribution to language: Towards a model of typographic genres and their underlying structures. Unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading, August 1987… This thesis presents a model which accounts for variations in typographic form in terms of four underlying sources of structure. The first three relate to the three parts of the writer-text-reader relationship: topic structure, representing the expressive intentions of the writer; artefact structure, resulting from the physical constraints of the medium; and access structure, anticipating the needs of the self-organized reader.” Thanks InfoDesign.

“Since the letterpress process is unfamiliar to most people, the first step to completing your job is to understand the process of letterpress printing. We talk about what it can do best and what makes it unique. A quick tour of the studio and equipment as well as a look at some samples helps begin the brainstorming process for our clients. If you can’t make it to Nashville, the samples posted on this site should give you a good idea of our range of styles.” Thanks kottke.org.

“YesVideo offers video conversion from video-tape to DVD and CD. Convert home videos in VHS, S-VHS, SVHS, Mini-DV, DVT, D8, 8mm or Hi-8 format to CD/DVD. Transfer your home movies in videotape to DVDs and CDs at an affordable price!”

“This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies.”

“This is not a complete resource, this is a fast resource. These are the sites that I refer to first, and that I tell people to read. When you want more, just about all of them have their own links to good sites.”

“CSS has the ability to draw rectangles with borders and fills. With a little bit of lateral thinking, it doesn’t take too much effort to draw simple business charts. Okay, it’s not as instant as Excel, but much lower in bandwidth requirements than any image file.”

“The great leaps forward for print reporters in this campaign cycle are wireless laptops and digital tape recorders with software that allows them to download a candidate’s speech immediately onto the laptops as an audio file. For television reporters, it is the ubiquitous hand-held minicam, which blurs the line between home video and politically revealing moments…”

“Wireframe [layout] experiments in CSS. Links open in popups, pure text, no images.

“UDM is a lightweight and accessible javascript menu, which provides useable content to all browsers—- including screenreaders, search-engines and text-only browsers. But accessibility shouldn’t mean compromise, and so UDM has a sophisticated range of design and usability controls, many of which are unique to this script. The navigation bar is simply a list of links. You can use Tab for navigation, and Enter to activate links, or whatever keystrokes you would normally use. To the best of our knowledge, Ultimate Drop Down Menu is the ONLY fully-featured and accessible DHTML menu in the world!”

“Some time ago, as a result of my conversations with my friend and colleague Marco van Hout, I came up with the idea of applying the cartesian model to this User Experience world of [ours]: What if we could use a north-south axis to represent the duality between the digital and the analog, and also use an east-west axis to articulate the the duality between the emotional and the rational? Once represented, we could place in this territory anything we could come up with: People, resources, disciplines, webs or products… As in ancient maps, this is a rather subjective and personal representation of the territory.”

“An in-depth analysis of the nine major Democratic candidatesí Websites. Find out how Dean compares to Kerry, Sharpton, and the rest. Learn best practices for supporting grass-roots campaigns, swaying undecided voters, and keeping your core constituents informed.”

“Without a doubt, the biggest challenge I encounter each time is in wrangling Microsoftís Internet Explorer browser. This devil does not play fair. It often follows no rules, and its behavior defies all common logic. It will double margins for no apparent reason. Borders disappear, 62 pixels magically turn into 143 pixels. It dodges left when other browsers go right. Iíve decided to call this phenomenon ‘the IE Factor.’”

Shows who supplies and receives primary, secondary, directory and paid search results among the major search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, Lycos, Ask, Inktomi, MSN, AltaVista, HotBot, dmoz, etc.

“Super Bowl commercials — so what’s the big deal about them anyway? They’re just commercials. Then again, maybe they’re big, extravagant, glorious, fantastically creative spectacles of free enterprise celebrating art and commerce at their best. Well… at least a bunch of them are… So good or bad, nice or nasty, gorgeous or ugly, bland or spicy, we’ve gathered them here.”