The often-seen in my referer log Smashingmagazine spent some time asking 35 Designers 5 questions each about what their favourite CSS trick is, what font they like to use and so on.

The outcome of the survey called 35×5 is an interesting read and it seems that despite the raging “which font” debate, we’re all on the same lines. I really enjoyed seeing that so many people agree with me in saying that “don’t make me think” is a very important book.

(No idea how I came to be asked as a Designer, I mean look around you!)
[tags]smashingmagazine,35×5,survey,design,webdesign,webdevtrick[/tags]

Be there or be annoyed by lots of tweets and blog posts about it. Read about the details over at the official hack day page http://hackday.org/ and I am very much looking forward to seeing you there.

• 16th and 17th of June 2007
• Alexandra Palace, North London (ice skates optional)
• Presented by Yahoo! and BBC Backstage
• Stay tuned for more info…

[tags]hackday,openhackday,openhackdayeurope,london,alexandra palace,yahoo,bbc backstage,cantwait,ohboyohboyohboy[/tags]

Hey, seems like nobody is signing up for cubicgarden’s Powerpoint Karaoke (that is Powerpoint, Ian, not Power Point). I consider it a wonderfully stupid idea and I am game.

In other news, I started a stupid new blog and flickr group. The idea was born when I pointed out to a friend that it is amazing that women have so many shoes and handbags. She then asked me how many T-Shirts I have and I did realize that I have far too many. So what I will do now is:

• Wear a different T-Shirt every day
• Upload the Shirt photo to flickr and blog its story
• Decide whether to keep or ditch it

All the ditched shirts will go either to a charity shop or to the clothes bank (depending on their state) or you can claim them on the blog (I will not cover postage, so that is on your cap).

Check it out: http://icant.co.uk/tshirtaday/

[tags]powerpoint,karaoke,tshirtaday,silly,fun[/tags]

Following the workshop in Singapore I promised to send out a more detailed explanation how to create a simple slide show in JavaScript that can be fully maintained in HTML, redesigned in CSS and all dynamic labels changed without having to change the main script.

The trick is once again separation, and if you care to learn more about this, check the 5 step example how to create a maintainable slideshow

[tags]JavaScript,slideshow,images,maintainability,unobtrusive,webdevtrick,beginningjavascript,bestpractice[/tags]

I just came across Scriptless Day via Twitter, which is something like CSS naked day but for JavaScripts. I had the same idea but didn’t bother as after me criticizing naked day I’d have appeared as a copycat.

In essence scriptless day is a great idea as it should show that:

• web sites with properly developed scripts do work without scripts
• JavaScript does make our experience smoother when it is available.

I am not too sure about the explanation of what a script is, and rather scared about the notion that it is nothing you have to think about if you believe in a library doing it for you, but all in all I am looking forward to this.

[tags]scriptlessday,scripting,usability,accessibility[/tags]