The Third Degree: Development

Alphabet Soup: Understanding Accessibility [Part I] »

Head over to the WebLinc Blog for my latest blog post on accessibility - Alphabet Soup: Understanding Accessibility [ Part I ]. Part I of the series covers acronyms of the accessibility world - their meaning, importance, and how they apply to your web site. ... Read More »

User Experience Applications, Is There A Need? »

In a recent discussion with a few co-workers, I found myself thinking about User Experience, and if it would benefit to have an online application to store User Experience models and other UE information. I found myself wondering about the process and how other professionals tackle the task. Recently, during day one a... Read More »

One Week With The iPhone »

I know everyone says "they've been waiting a long time for the iPhone," but over the past 7 years I have avoided buying an iPod and avoided (as best as possible) upgrading to the latest mobile phone... Let me explain. In late 1999 / early 2000, I was working for Cingular and we heard rumors that Apple wa... Read More »

An Event Apart, Seattle 2007: Day One »

The event opened with a grandiose welcome from Mr. Jeffrey Zeldman, who went on to introduce Eric Meyer for his first topic, "Secrets of the CSS Jedi." Meyer went into reset styling techniques, default browser display differenc... Read More »

Off to An Event Apart Seattle »

Well, I'm attending An Event Apart Seattle , courtesy of the man , and I thought... Read More »

Formatting CSS: File Structures to Property/Value Pairs »

Many developers have their own way of formatting or structuring their code when developing, but when working with a team of developers, one standard way of formatting and structuring code is in everyone's best interest. 

Over the years, I have thought a lot about the way I structure my CSS from th... Read More »

What, No DOC-TYPE? »

I was going through my RSS feeds today, and stumbled upon this link. I can't even imagine getting a tattoo (deathly afraid of needles), but this is a bit much. At the very least, you would think if someone is going to go this far and get a tattoo of code... they would make sure it was valid!

Yet anothe... Read More »

Microsoft and Yahoo Adopt Standard Sitemaps Protocol »

One small step for Google, one giant leap for Microsoft and Yahoo. Microsoft and Yahoo announced that they would b... Read More »

Dynamic Images with CSS Rollover States »

This article expands upon the A List Apart article Sliding Doors of CSS, but instead of using background-image and background-position we'll load a dynamic image and set its margin using t... Read More »

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The Third Degree is James Van Arsdale III's personal blog. Topics covered will range from web design and development techniques to rants about cabs hitting cyclists, and everything in-between. I encourage all to join in on the discussions, or contact me directly.