The image above may look like a real newspaper image, but no it is not. I wrote the text an using “The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator”. So funny!
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To me it has allways been a joy to deliver information in an understandable form. Being 45 years old I have seen some patterns within my own behaviour (why did it take so long I often ask myself!). Communicating information is a hard task – I prefer to take the piece of information into another form which the reciever will understand. Often transforming the information into something visual make it more likely that the message (information) send will be recieved by the reciever as something close to the original message. Tonight I just found a great website! The website www.informationisbeautiful.net contains several examples of how well information can be consumed if delivered in the correct form!
What is truely healthy for you?To the right you see an example. This interactive visualiazation will show you what is healty for you. For your eyes, skin or other of the selectable uses and types. It is very convincing and inspiring I think.
So go visit it here: http://bit.ly/aGoeom
Another example of visualazation – giving you something to think about…
In Denmark we pay a lot of tax, that is not a problem – I would however like to at least get to know what I am paying to! So my dream is to have some cool visualization of what the tax I pay for now could be said to cover. I know how much I earn per month, which lets me calculate a tax per hour/minute number. So what you should imagine is: You calculate how much tax I pay on say a national level. You then divide the national tax “spenditures” and get end up with a calender showing for instance for how many weeks I work and pay for the danish armed forces. Or if I look at the clock now: Who am I paying to right now? So the dream would let any person in Denmark log on to a portal which would give such information to them.
Filed under: Idea, inspirovation
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Det er så cool hvad man kan på hjemmesiden Discovery Education’s Puzzlemaker! Du kan sidde og lave labyrinter og bestemme sværhedsgraden – perfekt til små børn og legesyge voksne! Jeg tror dog at det stadig er for svært for min 4 årige datter Anita… 
Her er et par eksempler – så print dem ud og prøv at se om du kan klare dig igennem labyrinten!
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I am in the search of a CSS framework which will make it more standard to implement designs and add more resusability to the work put in creating CSS based designs. The issue arose when a collegue of mine – Nickey – started a talk about CSS frameworks.
I started from the top of the 12 mentioned frameworks and until now I have reached number 4 – which is YUI Grids CSS from Yahoo. It is a big thing so I just jumped directly to their online tool to autogenerate CSS for generic layouts. It is called “CSS Grid Builder”, and I must say that my first hand impression is one of respect! It is an impressive piece of work. See my very simple 1st test.
I will be trying out other frameworks, but for sure will also try to use the framework from Yahoo in practice!
Filed under: Code, css, inspirovation
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So you are a creative mind? You dont know much about the tags of HTML and the nature of a webpage? But still you would love to just design your website and voila! put it on the web – as a valid HTML based page, not flash, not an image! The answer is here: Xara Web Designer
Xara Web Designer (XWD) is a very cheap application which fills the gab between designing websites and creating them in HTML. The idea is that you design your site with graphics like buttons, text-areas, menues and graphics. When you are done you simply publish the site to HTML!
The HTML code generated is valid HTML – using CSS to reproduce your (complex) design from the vector (!) based Xara Web Designer application. I myself am a frontend developer and I love to handcode HTML, CSS and javascript (ok, I said it!), so I know about validation of those elements. XWD published HTML is job well done IMHO!
Inserting dynamic elements
One thing which I specially like is the ability to insert placeholders in your design. You can then embed HTML/Javascript/CSS directly in your design. When the site is published the placeholders will contain your code – allowing you to have semi-dynamic contents in your website design.
How to do it?
Well you simply add an area and right click it.
Choose “Web properties…”.
Click on the tab “Placeholder” and select “Replace with HTML code”
Now paste your html into the textbox – voila!
Examples
QR code – information embedded in machin readable 2D barcode
Imagine that you put a small barcode on your webpage, this barcode contains your contact information in a graphic 2d barcode called a QR Code. Your cell phone and other applications can then scan the barcode and save this information about you (and your website)
Try embedding this in XWD:
<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chl=Xara%20Ltd.%2C%20Gaddesden%20Place%2C%20Hemel%20Hempstead%2C%20HP2%206EX%2C%20United%20Kingdom&cht=qr&chs=110" />
A You Tube Video
Ofcause you can also embed a You Tube video!
Try embedding this into XWD:
<EMBED src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mb-ylTDHn44" width=425 height=350 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>
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Xara has done it again! Created a brilliant application – this time a website creation tool based on their excelant xara xtreme pro vector based drawing application. I must say this new application Xara Web Designer is a winner!
Perhaps not for us professionel website implementing developers – but, I will perhaps use it when starting up a site, or for prototyping. Xara: You are the greatest! Can’t wait to get a copy! (You know my e-mail over there in UK! 
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Its worth remembering – sites which were hits, many visited it – all such sites are shown here in a cool visual timeline. I personally like to get some help remembering things, one of the main reasons for blogging is exactly that: when I thing something is cool – Blog it! So that I will remember it (oh and you might find it interesting also!).
I think that I own the people who made me find this “dipty” site, the line of persons and sites are like this:
There you are – the information path leading me to find Dipty! Oh, I almost forgot – You should also remember to visit ffffound.com/
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I know that nothing is perfect, but today I saw JAXER a server running javascript! It is based on the mozilla javascript engine which means that it understands the same level of javascript that Firefox does!
So is this a dream?
Well to start with I love javascript! It’s so flexible and fits very well for the internet. With the many very cool APIs appearing nowadays – like JQuery, prototype and other – you would be able to use the same terms, methodes and datastructures on both client- as well as server-side! Google and Yahoo are building serious javascript free APIs which you simply use on the server rather than on the browser.
I just watched a video showing an example where a RSS feed is fetched as XML, transformed using XSLT and added to the DOM using various javascript APIs. Server side that is!
You would be able to manipulate the DOM using javascript syntax and APIs before the page is returned to the browser.
But how do I get it?
Well you can get locally by downloading Aptana framework, which is also very powerfull in general – even if you do not want to play around with serverside javascript.
It is mentioned that it has its own JAXER server, not sure if it means that you will be able to host it only some places… time will show! For now I keep on dreaming!
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