Webmaster Jam Session 2007 - Day 1
September 21, 2007 • 0 comments
Webmaster Jam Session is for Web Designers and Developers looking for candid, straight to the point information from the industries top professionals and best talent.
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- The Dawning of the Age of Experience - Jared Spool A look at how experience design is changing the Web
- Eliminate major redesigns break design challenge into small chunks
- Heavy emphasis on feedback mechanism collect as much information as possible
- get everyone involved decisions make things happen
- Successful Experience design integrate the user and the business
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- Measure Twice, Code Once - Rob Jones How to use web statistics and analytics to get better results from your site.
- Hes talking about analytics and how javascript based analytics collect data
- Javascript solutions are very popular today, easy to add to your site, power data collection capabilities
- Useful Links
Currently Standing at the Microsoft Booth watching the latest unreleased videos about Halo 3 on the massive Dell XPS 20″ laptop desktop

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- Typography: Beyond the Font - Jeff Croft How to produce web typography that doesn’t suck
- The Elements of Typographic Style
- Jeff Croft suggest resting all the tags to 0
- Type size refers to the em square not the character size
- In CSS, the em square is sized using font-size
- Sizing Text
- Relative sizing reefers to percents and ems (these sizes are relative to the parent element)
- the 62.5% trick is setting your body to be 62.5% that way you can manage your ems in a 10base setting
- Absolute sizes are just that, absolute. Downsize is they can not resize thus making them not accessible
- Color
- Tools
- Character entity references
- Smartypants
- Typogrify - gets rid of Widows, quote marks, apostrophes, etc, warps initial quotes, adjacent caps, and ampersands with classes for styling.
- sIFR - use flash in order to create better typographical headings
- Tricks
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- The Broken World - Molly Holzschlag Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All
- Differences between different browsers such as IE 6 and 7, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari
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End of day one… I’ll add more content to this posting later.
Tags: 2007, Events, Web