Moving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
Below is the presentation I did for SXSW 2009 in March 2009 Moving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0: Skills you need to know to stay relevant. Moving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0View more from estellevw. Here is the audio.

Dreamweaver tip for screen shot creation
I write a lot of tutorials. Really, really basic tutorials.  While I generally program in BBedit, Eclipse, vi, gEdit, NoteTab, or whatever makes sense at the moment, I write most of my tutorials and blog posts in Dreamweaver.  While this blog doesn’t contain many screen shots, my basic tutorials are filled with them.  I made a new discovery today that is going to make my tutorial writing so much easier. This may be old news for avid Dreamweaver users, but it’s new to me, so I thought I would share. The Tip: When you do a screen capture in Firefox (or any other open application) and you  go to Dreamweaver, pasting whatever is in memory (your screenshot) into Dre

iPhone Screen Orientation: Portrait and Landscape
When you tilt your iPhone, the screen changes orientation. The website you developed for the default portrait orientation may not look good in landscape mode, especially if you developed your page for the 480 (h) x 320 (w) screen. In my original iPhone post, I instructed detecting the width of the screen at regular intervals to detect the orientation of the iPhone. That post was written within a week of the launch of v1 of the iPhone. There is now a better method: use the onOrientationChange method to change the class of your body based on the page’s orientation. Include CSS for both normal page layout, and then include a series of overrides for when t

IE6/IE7 Implicit Label Bug
HTML and XHTML specifications allow both implicit and explicit labels. However,  IE6 and IE7 do not correctly handle implicit labels. When including implicit labels, IE6 and IE7 treat the input as one label and the text within the element as a second label. For example, <label>First name <input type=”text” name=”firstname”></label>. IE6 and IE7 interpret the code as if you wrote <labe>First name</label><label><input type=”text” name=”firstname”></label>. This is how IE6 and IE7 render:

More CSS, XHTML and JavaScript at Community MX
I have been somewhat prolific as a technical writer for Community MX over the past 12 months. If you are interested in any of the articles, they are listed below. I will add new articles to this list as they get published (and as I get around to it). While Community MX is a subscription based website, you can get a one week free trial, and several of the articles (as noted below) are accessible without a subscription, and without logging in. Most articles are part of a series. These four random ones are standalone: Browser Support: What should I test?