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Sued for Website Inaccessibility

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 | Dirk Watkins

The National Federation for the Blind is suing Target Stores for not having alt-text available on their images on the grounds that Target’s site is not accessible to blind users.

Custom Header Elements in Master Page

Thursday, August 24th, 2006 | Dirk Watkins

Dynamically add description and keyword meta tags, javascript and css links to your page headers in .net 2.0 with c#. You can even use this with a master page by creating properties!

IE7 Beta 3 CSS Support Still Lacking

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 | Dirk Watkins

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3’s CSS support has been locked down and will only be a stepping stone towards being actually CSS compliant. I really didn’t believe that they’d have a lot of fixes for their poor rendering of CSS but I was really hoping that they would. They have given allusions in […]

AOL Loves Privacy

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 | Dirk Watkins

On Monday a worker bee at AOL released data on 658,000 peoples search queries within a research section of their site. This is just one reason I don’t use AOL’s search.
Although the data doesn’t show screen names it still marks queries to a particular user via a random ID. Unfortunately, even with my […]

De-Motivate

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 | Dirk Watkins

Here is a nice concise list of the top 10 ways to de-motivate creative workers.  It’s funny yet painful.

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