Monthly Archives: July 2004

Site Update

Posted on July 24, 2004 by Kevin Hall

I’ve made a few changes to the site, including creating some icons for the main navigation bar and styling the plain text navigation a bit better. I’ll likely make a few more tweaks to the design soon. The nav icons … Continue reading →

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Correcting Other People’s Mistakes

Posted on July 23, 2004 by Kevin Hall

Zeldman wrote about redesigning web sites for companies that muck it up at no charge. I think this is an interesting topic, related to the topic of redesigning your own old sites to meet today’s standards. I am all for … Continue reading →

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New Web Site: Applied Safety & Ergonomics

Posted on July 20, 2004 by Kevin Hall

A new site that I designed has just launched. It is for Applied Safety & Ergonomics in Ann Arbor, MI. The site (at least the template) is valid XHTML Transitional. The design is pretty simple and fits nicely to what … Continue reading →

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W3CAG [EDIT]

Posted on July 14, 2004 by Kevin Hall

I’m removing the entry on the W3CAG due to a mistake on my part regarding the scope of a non-disclosure agreement. I had thought that the material would be okay to post since it was taken from the W3C guidelines, … Continue reading →

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Work at Ford

Posted on July 12, 2004 by Kevin Hall

I’ve started work at Ford in the Creative Design & Usability group. I’m working on ensuring a number of websites comply with the W3C Accessibility Guidelines (W3CAG). I’m going to try to post about my experiences without violating any NDAs … Continue reading →

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Outlook 2003 Memory Problem

Posted on July 7, 2004 by Kevin Hall

Want to try something fun? Open up Outlook 2003 and then hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete to open up your process monitor in the Windows Task Manager. Clickon the Mem Usage column header to sort by memory usage. Now locate OUTLOOK.EXE in the … Continue reading →

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New Job

Posted on July 6, 2004 by Kevin Hall

It appears that I’ll be starting a new contract position at Ford on Friday. This may mean that I’ll be covering some slightly different topics on here a I tend to write about whatever I’m working on. Right now details … Continue reading →

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The Induce Act

Posted on July 6, 2004 by Kevin Hall

There is another bill before Congress, proposed by Sen. Orrin Hatch, Patrick Leahy, Bill Frist, Tom Daschle, Barbara Boxer, and Lindsay Graham are all sponsoring a bill titled the Inducting Infringement of Copyrights Act which is essentially designed to roll … Continue reading →

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