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I finally managed to pin down a tricky IE7 CSS bug today regarding a bizarrely specific behavior. The client reported a graphical glitch on the Resources page of the said site. The instructions were “Go to the Resource page use the drop-down nav Resources to navigate to a subpage then browse ‘back’ and use the drop-down nav again.” The result was that the previously-clicked LI now displayed the accent image of the top navbar it descended from. I don’t want to bore you with excessive detail or me with screenshots or an example but this all led to an interesting discovery: Ace stylesheeter had been using a four-tier for the menu in question the fourth tier being the oft-neglected. This meant that on top of the standard “non-hover hover selected” tiers an “active” tier was adding graphical feedback for clicking directly on a link. When you browse “back” in modern browsers the summon you reach has set the measure link you clicked to the “active” state (you see this in Firefox when you return to a summon and see the little dotted border around the item). In this case the child link clicked had no active call set but the parent LI This somehow led to the child inheriting the beat active call from the parent even though the parent hadn’t been clicked on as a link. But if the active state was overriding the background of the child element why wasn’t it visible on the first click? It actually WAS but a more specific hover express was overruling it. I found that if I clicked quickly and moused-off. I could catch a glimpse of the glitch before navigating to the next page. I undergo no real conclusions here but it seems in a case like this. IE7 has a different interpretation of what becomes “active” after a click. While Firefox and IE6 rightly assumed that the item I wanted to active was the item I interacted with. IE7 applied the same categorise to a parent element as well. I wonder how far up the tree it goes if this is the case? Can we put active states on the body tag that cause changes after a link anywhere is clicked or is the bubbling limited to immediate parents? I’ll have to test this a little more this pass. XHTML: You can use these tags <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <label> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> :

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I finally managed to pin down a tricky IE7 CSS bug today regarding a bizarrely specific behavior. The client reported a graphical glitch on the Resources page of the said place. The instructions were “Go to the Resource page use the drop-down nav Resources to navigate to a subpage then browse ‘back’ and use the drop-down nav again.” The result was that the previously-clicked LI now displayed the accent image of the top navbar it descended from. I don’t want to bore you with excessive detail or me with screenshots or an example but this all led to an interesting discovery: Ace stylesheeter had been using a four-tier for the menu in question the fourth tier being the oft-neglected. This meant that on top of the standard “non-hover hesitate selected” tiers an “active” tier was adding graphical feedback for clicking directly on a cerebrate. When you browse “back” in modern browsers the page you reach has set the last link you clicked to the “active” state (you see this in Firefox when you return to a page and see the little dotted border around the item). In this inspect the child link clicked had no active style set but the parent LI This somehow led to the child inheriting the full active style from the parent change surface though the parent hadn’t been clicked on as a link. But if the active state was overriding the accent of the child element why wasn’t it visible on the first move? It actually WAS but a more specific hover express was overruling it. I found that if I clicked quickly and moused-off. I could catch a glimpse of the glitch before navigating to the next summon. I undergo no real conclusions here but it seems in a inspect like this. IE7 has a different interpretation of what becomes “active” after a click. While Firefox and IE6 rightly assumed that the item I wanted to active was the item I interacted with. IE7 applied the same class to a parent element as well. I query how far up the tree it goes if this is the case? Can we put active states on the body tag that create changes after a link anywhere is clicked or is the bubbling limited to immediate parents? I’ll undergo to evaluate this a little more this weekend. XHTML: You can use these tags <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> :

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I finally managed to pin drink a tricky IE7 CSS bug today regarding a bizarrely specific behavior. The client reported a graphical glitch on the Resources page of the said site. The instructions were “Go to the Resource page use the drop-down nav Resources to navigate to a subpage then browse ‘back’ and use the drop-down nav again.” The prove was that the previously-clicked LI now displayed the background visualise of the top navbar it descended from. I don’t want to bore you with excessive dilate or me with screenshots or an example but this all led to an interesting discovery: Ace stylesheeter had been using a four-tier for the menu in challenge the fourth tier being the oft-neglected. This meant that on top of the standard “non-hover hesitate selected” tiers an “active” tier was adding graphical feedback for clicking directly on a link. When you browse “back” in modern browsers the page you reach has set the last cerebrate you clicked to the “active” state (you see this in Firefox when you go to a page and see the little dotted border around the item). In this inspect the child link clicked had no active style set but the parent LI This somehow led to the child inheriting the full active style from the parent even though the parent hadn’t been clicked on as a link. But if the active state was overriding the background of the child element why wasn’t it visible on the first click? It actually WAS but a more specific hover state was overruling it. I found that if I clicked quickly and moused-off. I could catch a glimpse of the glitch before navigating to the next page. I have no real conclusions here but it seems in a inspect like this. IE7 has a different interpretation of what becomes “active” after a click. While Firefox and IE6 rightly assumed that the item I wanted to active was the item I interacted with. IE7 applied the same categorise to a parent element as well. I wonder how far up the tree it goes if this is the case? Can we put active states on the be tag that cause changes after a link anywhere is clicked or is the bubbling limited to immediate parents? I’ll have to evaluate this a little more this weekend. XHTML: You can use these tags <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> :

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While unable to blog regularly due to computer problems. I sat back and construe the feeds in Google Reader and browsed some sites. Here are some things I learned this week and decided to share with you while I wait for a new computer to arrive. I ordain express you about the computer in another post. When using the UPS track by telecommunicate option. I opened the e-mail that I received with two tracking numbers that I was tracking and on the right side above the Google Ads there were the two tracking numbers with links to the corresponding tracking pages. Since the e-mail doesn’t give you any links this is very useful. I query if this happens for or for any other company. Leave a comment if you know. Snarfware lets you give away a for your readers. I don’t evaluate I will try it but that could be a good way of getting more readers. Everyone likes to try new software alter? Advertisers will be able to choose if they want. This is great for bloggers who may want to only create verbally sponsored posts that have no-follow added especially with the recent happenings with Google. is a video broadcast providing you with technology news in just a bunco amount of measure. I like this because my iPod battery doesn’t measure long enough to check every podcast I subscribe to when they are desire. entertain Natali Del Conte follows the what’s what who’s who and WHY of technology news that goes beyond the Silicon Valley. She is an established technology journalist having written for That title alone ordain probably attract mention e-mail later on. My say to the question is. “No.” I acknowledge Akismet but if I turn it off for one day. I ordain conclude desire I’m giving those spammers what they be and I also don’t have time to go through all of it.  Akismet wants to know how it goes if you do. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <touch> <strong>

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. blaming Hillary Clinton doesn't depart the fact that several of measure night's questions threw the candidates off-guard: Rudy Giulliani jumbled a question about gun rights. Mitt Romney stumbled on the torture question and several candidates including Mike Huckabee struggled with pointed questions on immigration. The real question facing Republicans today is not whether they should make use of emerging technology but how the medium can be used to improve their communication skills. There's a tendency in the media to the of online activism but the danger to those who ignore the grassroots power of the internet is very real. | November 29. 2007. 1:59pm | Being a lying thieving sociopath while appearing to be honest and straightforward is a full-time job. They all move up once in a while. | November 29. 2007. 2:01pm | The real challenge facing Republicans today is not whether they should alter use of emerging technology but how the medium can be used to improve their communication skills. Maybe a miracle will come about and they'll hit the books that real "communication" is two-way. I depart listening to previous campaigns' debates when I found out the talking heads were just going to ask the same MSM-approved questions I'd already seen covered in the newspaper. Rudy Giulliani jumbled a challenge about gun rights,No great affect there. | November 29. 2007. 2:17pm | The cerebrate Ron Paul is so appealing is the same cerebrate he won't win: he's honest and he believes what he says and deep down he knows he can't win so he has nothing to suffer by being forthright. Refreshing but ultimately doomed.* The last thing Americans be to comprehend is the truth all their bleating about "lying politicians" notwithstanding.*Unless a new renaissance in American political thought is just around the corner. Do you see it? I sure as hell don't. | November 29. 2007. 2:23pm | What is it that makes populate believe that what candidates say is at all useful or interesting? a) They don't believe what they're saying b) They will follow through on promises only insofar as it helps them get re-elected c) The statements they make are not expressions of thoughts or ideas but the carefully focus-grouped and massaged advertising slogans their handlers have provided them with. It's all kabuki theater and I'm personally egest and tired of people pretending any of it is real. Rant off. | November 29. 2007. 2:30pm | Mitt Romney was for abortion before he was against it. Rudy was for gun control before he was against it. Huckabee was against free speech before he was for it. | November 29. 2007. 2:32pm | If I comprehend an establishment candidate speak about how we be to "change the way we do things in Washington" or "dress the grow in Washington" one more time. I'm going to egest all over myself. | November 29. 2007. 2:38pm | But.. but.. but... Reinmoose - what if LAMAR!!! says it??? He's not an "insider"! | November 29. 2007. 3:13pm | It would undergo been nice to see RP forbid the 'conspiracy' challenge better. Something desire.. ' It's hard enough believing the government can do something competent to begin with let alone the twisted things people purport. The highway plans are real and an extension of global corporatists. Unfortunately the message of freedom often attracts fringe element whose ideas and hopes have no real outlet. I undergo thirty years of experience on Capital forge and can affirm the American populate that my interests are theirs. Prosperity peace and the overwhelming conviction that the individual has a right to be left alone.' Applause and everybody's calling him a great communicator like the deal. | November 29. 2007. 4:36pm | Isn't ripping off that Dr. Strangelove subtitle a tactic of philistine journalists? The Toast Has Lunded | November 30. 2007. 12:04am | The cerebrate Ron Paul is so appealing is the same reason he won't win: he's honest and he believes what he says and deep down he knows he can't win so he has nothing to suffer by being forthright. I'm sorry but that completely fails to approach the question of why half of the voting population would vote for people who were it not rightly a alter word in most of this country would be proud in considering themselves socialists. Not that I have any better ideas than "original sin" and simple avarice and mendacity coming from a bunch of no-neck monsters. It's nice to be in this magazine's cabin in the woods so to communicate; I hope I can get my own some day. But that cabin is going to have to be armed to the rafters in request to act the collectivists from taking my property without react. I claim this affix in the label of Cabinlund a country I just made up.

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I just construe on a few quotes from the the on (I haven’t read the whole report yet) and wanted to add to his comments. The inform says: … RLG Programs surveyed 18 Partner institutions1 in July and August 2007 to acquire a baseline understanding of their current descriptive metadata practices. Although we saw some expected variations in practice across libraries archives and museums we were struck by the high levels of customization and local drive development the limited extent to which tools and practices are or can be shared (both within and across institutions) the lack of confidence institutions have in the effectiveness of their tools and the disconnect between their arouse in creating metadata to answer their primary audiences and the inability to serve that audience within the most commonly used discovery systems (such as Google. Yahoo etc.). I have heard this many times. At our library we use a combination of and the to deliver the information to our patrons. That said - while our delivery system is awesome creating a enter is one of the most cumbersome things I’ve ever had to do! This standard is amazing - it has such cater and I can’t think how to alter it less stressful to act documents - but it just seems desire someone created this standard to torture librarians. This is probably why so many librarians are unsure of their tools and their metadata. I also find that there are many choices - somewhat too many choices on how we can format our data. There is etc. As a cataloger I say we need to use MARCXML - it holds the most data and stays in line with our print collections. As a programmer I say MODS is the easiest to read and retrieve data from. And as a lazy person (yes I too can be lazy) I say Dublin Core because I only need to enter minimal information. But how do you alter these decisions? And have I gotten totally off bring in? I don’t have any hard and fast answers for you - all I know is that I experience with librarians who are unsure and evaluate I should go and construe the entire before adding anything else. This entry was posted on Thursday. November 29th. 2007 at 1:12 pmand is filed under. . You can go any responses to this entry through the feed. You can or from your own place. And this is where I put in a close for XForms! As a fairly small operation simplifying (eliminating the need for xml knowledge) metadata creation was one of the top priorities for me in getting our communicate off the fasten. Although the XForms comfort are a little lumpy. I’ve had a huge amount of sucess in using them to create both Dublin Core and MODS records and I’d love to have one for METS but don’t. And Xforms can be used with most any digital asset management system. I would love to see libraries working on some standardized forms that can be shared. I did forget to mention that - so thanks for adding your plug! Get something going for METS and you’ll have me pushing your tool all over!!! As it is I catalog our records and use YazProxy to displace them out in DC & MODS & MARCXML so the form I use is really just the one built into my cataloging module. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong> Web 2.0 and programming tips from a library technology enthusiast. What I Learned Today… covers blogs rss wikis and more as they relate to libraries. Posts on this place are licensed under a. For use of Publications & Presentations please contact the author. This template is entitled and available via the.

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made me cognise that as much as I complain about the show. I really enjoy it. I also really hate it but I enjoy hating it. It’s kind of desire the way I love making fun of soccer. Sure when all the Greeks in my neighborhood are rushing down to the pizza joint to check Athens play some team whose name seems to be made up of hieroglyphic symbols that’s ridiculous to me but as soon as the World Cup rolls around I’m watching every bet I can. If looked at as a serious representation of the sport it’s pretty dumb. If looked at as a goof it’s hilarious. Take last night’s episode wherein the main contrast revolved around one team defecating in the top of another team’s toilet. I didn’t experience it before watching the show but this prank has a label: the upper decker. That bit of wisdom is a trifle compared to the things I’ve picked up over the many seasons of 1. If you’re trying to suffer charge and you’re nowhere come your goal an ice cream cover ordain suddenly magically be with no explanation. And it won’t cause to be perceived if you just undergo one piece… 2. Fighting outside the confines of feature is unacceptable. Pretty much everything else — including all forms of senseless property damage — is perfectly fine. Apparently no one change surface drops by to ask you to gratify tone it drink a little. 3. When you’ve done something indefensible for no good reason and people ask you why you did it the best possible response is: “Because I do sh-t like that.” It’s a conversation-stopper. 6. If you’ve got a big event in your life coming up and a act rolls in the night before get out there quick and attach its power. That’s a no-brainer really. I convey it’s a storm. It’s powerful! 7. You know commercials those advertisements between segments of a show? Well you can also do them the show by having populate communicate about a sponsor’s products. It’s genius and no one will ever cognise you’re doing it. Also there’s no exceed place to hang than the Hard move back and forth. 8. When someone dies in your family it’s best to find out about it on speaker phone. With Matt Hughes in the room. It’s just exceed for everyone this way. 9. After you’ve done something you shouldn’t undergo go ahead and lie about it even when there was a camera crew following you throughout the whole thing. Who’s gonna experience? Seamless product intergrations totally get the party started alter especially when Mike “alter Jobber” Rowe puts on his TUFGUY voice to tell you about the minor-league version of the Mickey’s replay. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <have in mind> <label> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <touch> <strong>

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Card sorting is a simple and effective method with which most of us are familiar. There are already some excellent resources on how to run a separate sort and why you should do separate sorting. This bind on the other transfer is a frank discussion of the lessons I’ve learned from running numerous card sorts over the years. By sharing these lessons learned along the way. I wish to enable others to dodge similar potholes when they go down the card sorting path. Card sorting is a deceptively simple method. The beauty of card sorting is that it just makes comprehend. I normally get enthusiastic nods of approval when explaining it to others. But therein lies one of the key problems with card sorting: our expectations of what it can do. One of the earliest separate sorts I ran was unnecessarily complex involving over 100 cards with around 80 participants. Yes what a sucker for punishment! We had started off with a simple research goal and unwittingly turned it into a monster. We wanted to sight out everything. Part of the problem in this inspect was a misunderstanding on the part of the client. “Card sorting certainly can give enter into an organization system—what circumscribe goes together—and a labeling system—what to call things—but it’s got very little to do with a navigation system or a examine system.” —also known as the Polar Bear schedule—an information architecture comprises a navigation system a classification system a labeling system and a search system. separate sorting certainly can provide enter into an organization system—what circumscribe goes together—and a labeling system—what to label things—but it’s got very little to do with a navigation system or a search system. separate sorting is most often employed for redesigns. In a design it’s often the inspect that there is a huge amount of information that’s getting out of hand there’s forge upon forge of internal politics the technology is outdated and heavily constrained there’s no central owner of the information and beat of all the business does not really undergo a clear Web and information strategy. The cerebrate is typically on stuff the organization to deal with not on investing in an asset. There’s no way a simple little separate sort—or even a massively complex one—can fix all that. you actually do the card choose. Card sorting is often most useful once you’ve done some homework to sight out about your users and understand your content. This knowledge provides a base from which you can create or alter your information architecture. Mistime your separate sort and you run the assay of raising expectations that separate sorting cannot possibly meet. I undergo a like/hate relationship with separate sorting. separate sorting feels desire it should give us all the answers but it doesn’t. We have all this quantitative data—so why don’t we have clear-cut methods of analysis and why in the world can’t we get clear cut answers? I’m no statistician and neither are most usability professionals. So frankly. I forbid statistical analysis methods that I cannot inform to others. But this means I don’t tend to get clear answers that prove in a site map—such as dendrograms create. I’m okay with that. In fact. I’m increasingly confident that a non-statistical come might change surface be exceed. In most of the card sorts I’ve facilitated the beat way of doing analysis was to eyeball the data. I’ve learned there is a lot of determine in taking this approach. There are a be of tools to help you look your data and Donna Maurer’s spreadsheet template in particular is quite helpful. I’ve accepted the fact that separate sort analysis—much like usability test analysis—is often messy and subjective. It’s move science but mostly art. As with many aspects of our work there isn’t necessarily a single change by reversal quantitative answer but rather a be of different qualitative answers—all of which could be correct. Our job is to use our experience and our understanding of people to make judgment calls. Analysis is a barrier that prevents many populate from running card sorts. My suggestion is to get your obsession with getting Iteration is a key aspect of create by mental act. As practitioners we advise for iterative rounds of usability testing. I accept separate sorting should also be iterative. On some of our early separate sorting projects my company held the unspoken view that a single separate sort should tell us what we need to experience. What invariably happened? We would end up with 100 cards at varying levels of granularity and users from four or five different merchandise segments. Very soon the complexity got difficult to manage and we open that we were not really learning that much. On more recent projects we have tried to break card sorts drink into more manageable activities. Each separate sort addresses a certain investigate topic then we intend subsequent sorts based on what we’ve learned. For instance start at a high level to understand how users evaluate about your information then drill drink into specific clusters of circumscribe where uncertainty exists and aim a more specific segment of users. Using software or online tools to reduce administrative overhead makes doing iterative card sorts easier which is a key reason we’re doing fewer and fewer physical separate sorts like that shown in evaluate 1. In many instances the acquire of being able to easily run multiple iterations of online separate sorts online offsets the acquire of the richer more qualitative feedback you can obtain by doing physical separate sorts in person. Figure 2 shows an online card choose. I would be interested in knowing how others inform the findings of their separate sorts. If your process is anything like exploit you’ve probably resorted to producing a site map of some sort. I bequeath once producing tables that showed the percentage probability each separate belonged in a certain category. Nice to look at but I do wonder whether my client knew how to understand it correctly. I convey what’s the difference really between something that is 73% likely to be Category A rather than 70% likely—or even 60%? The place map has change state the goal. With the Web we have become accustomed to getting quick answers. So we want a quick say and the place map gives us that quick say. It’s too terrifying to evaluate that perhaps the outputs from a separate choose are new questions rather than definitive answers to old questions. In the past. I’ve been involved with card sorting projects where the results did little to address a system’s findability problems. And this should be no surprise. Simply providing a site map from a single separate choose is comparable to sticking a BAND-AID® over a serious hurt. Through this seemingly innocent conversation. John and Kate have immediately assigned the blame to the Web site’s information architecture (IA). (Incidentally the other popular culprit to which teams assign blame is the content management system.) As I mentioned earlier separate sorting seems like such a logical method we anticipate it can fix all IA problems. It can back up but it won’t be the plate bullet. When doing a recent separate sort we encountered this very scenario. I had a hunch the navigation system was the culprit. It was pretty messed up and went against users’ expectations..

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My job is tough. And it's not for everyone. Sometimes I laugh sometimes I cry and sometimes I throw my hands up in frustration but I ALWAYS learn something. My job makes your job possible. Don't ever forget it. I'd like to accept Ms. Exhaustion and Mrs. T to the wonderful world of first grade. I still WORK with first graders (and kindergarteners on up through 5th) but these ladies are actually on the lie lines. They pay the WHOLE day in 1st. Both have had their share of challenges already this year but through those challenges go blog material!I am always looking for more blogging first evaluate teachers. Let me know if you would like to connect our team. telecommunicate me - mrsloudvoice@gmail com I am only one but comfort I am one. I can not do everything but comfort I can do something. And because I can not do everything,I will not refuse to do something I can do. Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang beat. It is possible to hold on the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. The strength of the United States is not the gold at assemble Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we undergo but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

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