JTK – Notes and Ramblings Things we have found …

Color Vision – by Cal Henderson
1 in 12 people have some sort of color deficiency. When you’re designing for the web, this means that 1 in 12 people might not be able to see your site. That’s alot of people. This tool helps you simulate the appearance of our site’s colors for people with different color visions. Select text and background colors from the palette below, then choose a color vision mode.

WebAIM – Web Accessibility in Mind (home)
Disability Types: If you think that Web accessibility is all about making things accessible to the blind, you’re only getting part of the story. Disabilities that affect Web access include: Visual (blindness, low vision, color-blindness), Hearing (deafness, hard-of-hearing), Mobility (inability to use hands, tremors, slow muscular movement), Cognitive (mental retardation), and Others (learning disabilities, reading disorders, attention deficit disorders, etc.). Be sure to design your site with all of these audiences in mind.

Free Downloads
Our Custom filter is a powerful tool for applying a wide variety of convolution filters to images and is an excellent way to extend Photoshop

Skinning a website / creating website themes. Page 1.
They’re called skins – or themes. There are two brands of skinnable sites out there. One is a site that provides you with a basic layout and allows you to change colors and swap out images, but keeps the same overall layout of the site. The other is for the more adventurous: in the more radical type of site skinning, everything except the actual textual content of the page can – and will – vary from skin to skin. Domesticat, as you’ve probably guessed, is the more adventurous version

RTF2HLP the freeware help compiler
RTF2HLP is a freeware tool that converts directly a Microsoft? Word RTF document to a Windows Help file.
The main advantage of RTF2HLP is that it converts documents without the need of any extra project files.

DBX :: SQL queried XML database in PHP
What is DBX?
DBX, is essentially a DBMS that is written completely in PHP, and works using XML style text files as its native format. It runs as a header file for your PHP pages, and can be used as a substitute for any SQL queried DBMS.

FileForum | Program Detail – Project Dogwaffle
Project Dogwaffle supports realistic artist tools, paper, and media styles, custom and procedural brushes and fill types, realtime image processing, animation, a revamped interface and it’s hopefully a lot of fun to use

ISSN for Weblogs (Joe Clark: fawny.org)
ISSN for Weblogs
You can apply for and use an International Standard Serial Number for your Weblog. Your blog will then officially exist in the worldwide standardized encyclopedia of periodicals

MailWasher
MailWasher is a powerful email checker with effective spam elimination. Discover the safe way to stop unwanted viruses and emails before they get to your computer

PuTTY: a free Win32 telnet/ssh client
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.

glish.com : CSS layout techniques
Look Ma, No Tables.
If you are looking for help making the transition to CSS layout (that’s Cascading Style Sheets), you’ve come to the right place. I am cataloging here as many useful cross-browser CSS layout techniques as I can find, and some that I made up when I was bored last Thursday. All the examples on this site have been reduced to only their essential code, and you will find the source displayed on each page to hopefully make it quick and easy to understand the inner workings of the CSS. Feel free to steal all the code you find on this site, and consider linking back here on your site or in your source comments.

A List Apart: Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques
THE WEB STANDARDS PROJECT’S (WaSP) Browser Upgrade Initiative (BUI), has spurred many a designer to move towards more Standards Compliant web design, using CSS rather than TABLEs for layout.
This article includes some helpful CSS tips including a nice way to do a thumbnail page without tables. hmmm…