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Accessibility & Usability

Flash Accessibility Part 1: Introduction to the Accessibility

Part one in a scheduled four-parts series. This presentation represents the first providing an introduction to accessibility and the screen reader for designers. It is short and not meant to be comprehensive. It is intended to provide a brief overview for designers that want to get started with accessible Flash.

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ColdFusion

Get Started with ColdFusion MX 7 in 30 Minutes

Coldfusion MX 7 "Explore Real-World Example Applications"

  • reporting & charting tools
  • enhanced HTML & Flash forms
  • on-the-fly PDF & FlashPaper
  • enterprise searching
  • mobile device gateways
  • Dreamweaver extensions

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Tools/Software

Paparazzi! Website Screenshoting

Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OSX that makes screenshots of webpages. Custom screen size capturing, no browser needed - all standalone. Outputs to PNG format. Read More
Miscellaneous

DNS Stuff

Check/Look up:

  • DNS Reports - Finds lots of common DNS problems.
  • DNS Timing - See how long your DNS servers take to respond.
  • WHOIS Lookup - Lists contact info for a domain/IP
  • Reverse DNS lookup - See if your IP has a reverse DNS entry.
  • DNS lookup - Look up a DNS record (A, MX, NS, SOA, etc.)
  • Spam database lookup - See if a mail server is listed in 150+ spam databases.
  • IPWHOIS Lookup - Lists contact info for an IP (or domain).
  • Abuse Lookup - Finds abuse contact for a domain
  • Tracert - Traces the route packets take to this host.
  • Ping - Shows how long it takes for packets to reach a host.
  • WHOIS Search - True WHOIS search
  • IP Routing Lookup - Shows IP routing info, from RADB.
  • ISP cached DNS lookup - Check cached DNS at major ISPs.
  • NetGeo IP Lookup - Shows (outdated) geographical location of an IP.
  • URL deobfuscator - De-obfuscates confusing URLs.
  • Free E-mail Lookup - Is an E-mail address a known free one?
  • E-mail Test - Are there problems sending mail to a user or domain?
  • CIDR/Netmask Lookup - Calculates CIDR ranges (e.g. 192.168.112.0/24).
  • CSE HTML Validator - Finds HTML errors in websites.
  • Decimal IPs - Converts a decimal IP (e.g. 2130706433) into an IP.
  • ... and more.
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CSS

Stylegala

Stylegala"Stylegala aims to promote, discuss and inspire the web audience in the areas of design, CSS and web standards - combined."

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Studio MX/MX2004

Macromedia LiveDocs

MacromediaMacromedia LiveDocs are online HTML versions of product documentation with an interactive twist. LiveDocs pages display user comments, expanding the knowledge for all the community to learn more! Read More
ColdFusion

Coldfusion trial and FREE developer version

The official download page for the Coldfusion MX and Coldfusion MX 7 of Macromedia. Download it and use it for free as a developer edition!

Please note that there are a few restrictions in the developer version. Although all capabilities and functions work, some of them are limited and/or watermarked!

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Miscellaneous

W3Schools

W3SchoolsAt W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, XSL, Multimedia and WAP. Read More
PHP

PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC)

PHPSC Logo PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is an international group of PHP experts dedicated to promoting secure programming practices within the PHP community. Read More
Cool Sites

The case for avoiding XHTML

Is XHTML all we've been told it is? The main item on the news at sitepoint.com is that maybe there is no benefit in using XHTML at all Read More
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