Low Vision

Screen-magnification or zoom

Creating a Web site that accommodates people with low vision should be a goal of designers. Accessibility laws require it in some cases.

The online magazine AListApart.com, has some interesting articles:

Big, Stark, & Chunky

"[Participants] told us that they often copied and pasted material into Word where they could enlarge the font even more and make it bold, thus rendering it easier for them to see."

"We have not done a good job of catering to these screen-magnification or zoom users. Using CSS, it's easy to do, as we shall soon see. And moreover, using CSS to develop zoom layouts is almost exactly what developers of handheld and PDA browsers are doing in their quest for small-screen rendering of wide, multicolumn web pages."

Also:


Web Accessibility


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gMail Print Selection

Obscure clicks

"I would like to know how to only print part of email, as all the parts of an email conversations are not necessary to print. I have tried by highlighting the part I want and then choose "select" on print menu - but the font is so small then (no matter which printer I use). I can select in the print menu which pages to print, but that is not always clear where the page breaks happens. I could copy and paste into a word document, but then the details are missing."

Here's how I do it:

Click on "New window"



Make your selection in the gMail document.
(Hold down the left mouse button and "paint")





Right click the selection and choose "Print Preview"




Find the layout and size buttons




Change to "As selected on screen" and about "150%".





You can also turn off the Header and Footer.

Now you can print the selection.




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WiFi at Home

First steps

"You can use a wireless network to share Internet access, files, printers, and more. Or you can use it to surf the Web while you're sitting on your couch or in your yard. Plus, it's easier to install than you think."

There are 4 steps to creating a wireless network:

1. Choose your wireless equipment
   
   
2. Connect your wireless router
   
   
3. Configure your wireless router
   
   
4. Connect your computers

Set up a Home Wireless network (By Tony Northrup)

Wireless Security for Home Networks (PCMAg)

O'Reilly.net: Setting Up an 802.11b Home Wireless Network (Wei-Meng Lee)

About.com: Wired vs Wireless Networking (Bradley Mitchell)

HowStuffWorks.com: How WiFi Works ( Marshall Brain)

PracticallyNetworked.com: Securing your Wireless Network


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More Java?

It's in the script

Here is a descriptive article from Microsoft's Office Online:


Jazz up your Web site with JavaScript

"Have you ever wanted to add a pop-up window to your Web site? Maybe you've wanted to add a hyperlink that closes the page or to display the current date and time. You can add all of these features and more by using JavaScript: A scripting language that can be used to add functionality to a Web page or a Web site, or to enhance the look of one. JavaScript scripts can run on any type of client or server computer."

Also:
JavaScript

Days Remaining in Year

Use this script to calculate the number of days between now and the end of the year.

Popup Checkbox Navigation Menu

This script opens a small popup window containing a checkbox navigation menu.

Form Field Help

Add a help link to each section in your form. When clicked, an explanation is given of what is required and a box is offered where the information can be entered and transferred to the form.

Image Viewer

Use this script to display different images without opening a new window. Click the links to change the displayed image right in the current page.

Random Password Generator

This script can be used to generate random passwords for improved password strength

JavaScriptKit.com

• Free JavaScripts
  
• JavaScript Tutorials
  
• Free Java applets
  
• Advanced JavaScript Tutorials
  
• DHTML/ CSS Tutorials
  
• Web building tutorials
  
• JavaScript Reference

Java and all that free jazz


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Dynamic Web Templates

DWTs

"FrontPage 2003 introduced Dynamic Web Templates, a new and sophisticated type of Web page template that enables you to share a layout among several pages in a site, preserve specific regions of content from unwanted changes, and save time when you begin to manage the Web pages on your Web site.

By creating a Dynamic Web Template, you can make regions on attached pages available for other authors to add and modify content, while preventing changes to other regions on the same page. This provides you with control to preserve the layout of the pages and the template itself. When you update the content in a Dynamic Web Template, you can update the attached Web pages simultaneously."

Microsoft:
Create a Web page layout
by using Dynamic Web Templates

Change the master page layout
by using Dynamic Web Templates
Also:

Dynamic Web Template Interchange Guidelines

"The Dynamic Web Template Interchange Guidelines have been established by a consortium of web designers and developers in an effort to provide webmasters using a third party DWT the ability to cross over from one design to another with relative ease. The goal of the DWTIG is not to standardize design; rather, to standardize the method in which the content is added to a DWT through Editable Regions within the design."

Expression Web:
Dynamic Web Template Packages



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