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29th January 2004

YesVideo

“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!”

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29th January 2004

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters

“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.”

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29th January 2004

CSS Panic Guide

“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.”

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29th January 2004

Drawing with CSS

“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.”

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29th January 2004

Making of the Digital Press Corps, 2004

“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…”

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29th January 2004

CSS User Interface by Ivan Bueno

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

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29th January 2004

Accessible Website Menu

“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!”

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