Just noticed that this site is ranked in the top 100 out of over 11,000 sites on Command Shift 3. Wow super surprised. Those of you unfamiliar with Command Shift 3, it’s basically hot or not for web site designs. Its a fun site and has some really good use of the meta data provided by the voting. Sites are also ranked by related tag, so this site is currently 20th in designer and 3rd in simple. So cool, be sure to check out the site and participate.
On the heels of my posts about email client standards in early October, Email Standards Project has launched with a website that features a list of email clients and the support for the Email Standards Project Acid Test. This project is being led by Freshview, makers of Campaign Monitor and MailBuild. It’s great to see this getting off the ground and I hope it gains some traction. …
There have been a lot of XHTML/CSS services that have popped up recently. Seems like anyone with a text editor and a copy of Web Standards Solutions
I haven’t seen much written on the subject of metadata, especially as it relates to information architecture and designing interactions with users. This post describes metadata and shows real world examples of advanced uses of metadata. Metadata is at the core of what makes mashups, a Web 2.0 staple, so popular.
Wikipedia describes metadata as data about data. So, for example, you might have this post’s content as the main data but the date published, date edited, author, category, tags, etc. would all be its metadata. …