Small Cat
February 5th, 2002Look at the little kitty.
I just updated The NYPL Online Style Guide to include more tips on authoring valid XHTML pages with Dreamweaver. See how to use a doc type switcher, and, even better, how to set an XHTML DTD in your default template. Thanks William.
Speaking of standards in institutional Web sites, Tennessee’s Volunteer State Community College has begun an accessible, standards-compliant site redesign. Several primary pages are live. Expect other parts of the site to follow. Thanks Sanders.
Indiana University is hosting a collaborative project called Wright
American Fiction, 1851-1875. The collection includes 1752 texts by 845 authors.
Literature buffs will note that the collection is based on Lyle Wright’s bibliography
of 19th century American fiction. Note that this is a work in progress; some texts
contain errors.
The Journal of Digital Information has just published a special issue on Metadata. Delightfully high geek factor.
Web Developers in the San Francisco area take note; Carbon IQ has announced another Low-Budget Usability Testing Workshop. Quite reasonable too.
In personal news: there are two people from highschool that I would like to find. Today one of them found me. Jenny Brasch, where are you?