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Links can be left alone in CSS – because they are buried in paragraphs or sitting beside other texts. Actions require styles that will enhance their usability – like padding to increase its active area (easier to click).

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Pilipinas, Tara

Published on 13 Jun 2016 19:08:27

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Where are we going again?

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What Is a Blind Bird Ticket?

Published on 10 Jun 2016 12:21:27

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I’ve been reading lately about events and conferences selling “Blind Bird” tickets.

It seems like it stemmed from “Early Bird” and upon searching the term “Blind Bird Ticket” in Google, only more Blind Bird ticket sales came up. No official Wiki or definition whatsover.

Buying a Blind Bird Ticket means that you’re entitled to a hefty discount (much like an Early Bird) at an event without further details yet – such as to who will be speaking or doing the intermission numbers.

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Putting Skip to Content Into Context

Published on 27 Mar 2016 00:37:17

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Does the HTML markup of your website has an accessibility function in the form of “Skip to Content”? If yes, then you would notice that it is located at the topmost of the markup. This is as such in order to make it the first focus when using keyboard to navigate.

Now you may ask, “Shouldn’t the document title be at the topmost of the document?”

Not when you put this accessibility function into the context of its intended use. The user, upon arriving at your website might have come from a link or have typed a URL into the web browser. That could’ve acted as the document title that ensures the user where s/he is.

The second part of this context is the user being able to go directly to the content – skipping every element that isn’t part of his or her purpose for visiting the website.

See the Pen Skip to Content by Brian Dys Sahagun (@BrianSahagun) on CodePen.

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Migration to Flickr

Published on 22 Feb 2016 06:53:33

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The exodus of my files from the hard drive to Flickr. Still from Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

All of my internal and external hard drives are being consumed by media files like fungus to a rotting tree trunk. I confess that I’ve been hoarding files from my camera that never see the light of day (or get shared to people involved).

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That Only Storage that You Will Ever Need

Published on 17 Feb 2016 07:34:25

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…is the 5D Data Storage! It could store 360 terabytes of your photos and videos in full resolution!

When everything else melts (even the machine that can read this thing), fear no more knowing that all your cat pictures are safe in this coin-sized storage. Image credit: University of Southampton

Now, there’s no need to hesitate in shooting RAW and 4K!

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