Our lives as users and coders would be much easier if ALL browsers supported web standards.Thus, arose the blue beanie day to show support for web standards.My haiku:New web journeys waitof Blue beanies sing; old mud walks to break internetYou don't even need to own a blue beanie either (tho I have several).

To me, true accessibility is building one site that works for everybody, disabled or not, and whatever user agent or operating system they prefer. And that is the web I want to build and use.

Yup. A good post on web standards and accessibility.

Interesting survey of 330 students at the University of Michigan; the social networking question was just one question out of the survey. The rest of the survey is kind of interesting, too!-----------------------QUESTION: If you could contact a librarian via Facebook or MySpace for help with your research, would you?

I answered a question about metadata on a list, and I thought I'd post my answer in an abbreviated form:Yes, it is still important. ;-D

• Focus on the most relevant terms for a website. At various times, depending on their algorithms, some search engines have truncated keywords at a certain limit 25 words, even 250 characters. Any other that = seo spam So, choose keywords very very carefully and weight the most important ones at the beginning of the keywords list ;-)

• Use all of the metadata FIELDS that you can.

okay, this is a very handy little tool for web editors... It tests functional units of a website (navigation, title, etc.) per best practices.http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/

Until IE becomes more standards compliant and all browsers began adhering strictly to the w3c coding standards, it will be nearly impossible to create one set of coding that renders beautifully across the various browsers. Many people do use one style sheet, but then include code specifically to work around junky IE.

Record retentionhttp://www.usg.edu/usgweb/busserv/series/index.phtmlLibraries terminology used in usability testing

http://www.jkup.net/terms-studies.html