Archive for October, 2006

October Meeting Recap

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Our first meeting was held a couple weeks ago at Sitening. We had a good first meeting turn out. We mostly hung out in the conference room — eating and drinking — and talked about different design and programming related topics. This is the list of topics we discussed:

Topics & Links

CSS Reboot

A common project we discussed during the meeting was CSS Reboot:

The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals and enthusiasts. Every November 1st and May 1st at 18:00 GMT, Rebooters from all over the world launch their standards based website redesigns simultaneously; bringing traffic, interest and a little respect to their sites. There are no prizes or arbitrary winners, just great exposure and the knowledge that we all participated in something great. Read more about the CSS Reboot history.

The idea is to pick one or more sites that utilize modern design techniques (XHTML & CSS) that are being redesigned. Each redesigned website needs to be completed and launched by November 1st, 2006. CSS Reboot is an excellent opportunity to bring attention and traffic to your website(s).

Update - 11/01/06

Sitening entered a site into the CSS Reboot event. Their site was FamilyResource.com. FamilyResource.com underwent a major redesign. Sitening added a softer, more mom-friendly look. They also incorporated the use of sIFR to maintain typography while keeping the site accessible and optimized for search engines. Their CSS Reboot page is located at http://www.cssreboot.com/reboot1777. The page includes a before and after screenshot.

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Accessible Search Now Has Advanced Search Features

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Ever since we launched Google Accessible Search in July, one of the most oft-requested features has been the addition of advanced search capabilities similar to those available on the main Google Search page. In response, we’ve added an advanced search link at http://labs.google.com/accessible in order to refine your searches in various ways. The order of results will continue to take the accessibility of the search results into account.

Here are the types of advanced queries you can perform:

  • restrict search to portions of a page, e.g., the title
  • restrict search to results in a given language
  • restrict searches to web pages found during a given time period
  • restrict searches to content in a given file format

And a lot more that won’t fit on the margin of this page — for complete details, see our Advanced Search Tips.”

(Via Google Blog - Live.)

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