stainlessvision

The crap HTML provided by Threadless for these 'submission banners' does annoy me. Inaccessible, non standards-compliant and practically useless...

What can be done about it? An API would help, in lieu of that; maybe some source scraping could do the trick until they find the time.

What's the worst possible type of website to present with Flash?

Something text heavy, with frequently updated content, that's only success depends on Google indexing and links from other sites.

How about a Flash blog?

Replicating the particulars of html based presentation, while removing functions that people have become accustomed to;
like opening links in a new tab, downloading images, copying text, increasing the text size, ...not to mention accessibility

Genius!

The comments box I recently added to 2D Forever was taking up allot of vertical space, so I developed a script that would hide the box and allow you to open and close it. I'm already using jQuery for the smooth image scaling, so it's been used here too.

The script takes a container and hides all of it's content apart from the heading (it should have a heading), while giving you a show/hide button to toggle its visibility.

Just a quick post about something I've gotten working over at 2D Forever.

With the recent realign of 2D Forever, something I focused on was making the website scale to whatever resolution you're viewing it at. I wanted to do this to allow the images to be an appropriate size for your screen, so that you're not:

• a) Trying to view a large image on a small screen (lots of scrolling!)
• b) Having to view a small image on a large screen (lots of squinting!)

To achieve this, the images are simply scaled up to a percentage of the screen size. Thanks to Safari's image smoothing this looks fantastic, however on other browsers you're left with a distorted looking pixelated image.

Picking accessible colours can be challenging, quite often the colours you perceive to be readable don't meet various accessibility criteria (WCAG 1.0, WCAG 2.0). The Colour Contrast Visualiser is designed to help you get the colours you want with a familiar interface. You can find it on the project page.

After finding a job, gaining three years of experience, much procrastination and a recent experimentation with Drupal; my website 'stainlessvision' is revived from atrophy.

I had set out with the purpose of this website being to allow access to the projects I work on in my free time; but during it's development, I've realised that this will be my voice to the industry of accessibility, usability, development and design (in no particular order) for the web.