Webweaving

Accessibility Sara Joy Wallén

Can accessibility be whimsical?

It started out with me just trying to find a cute word to put with a11y, the numeronym for accessibility. Because you have to buy a cute domain name for every side project idea, of course. And as much as I try to say “a-eleven-y” of course my brain always
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Webweaving Leilukin

Webweaving and blogging can change your life

I had used a computer since I was a kindergartner in the late 1990s, and I am also old enough to remember dial-up internet. However, before I was a teenager, I never considered the possibility of me creating anything on the web, let alone crafting my own space on the
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Webweaving Zachary Kai

Falling in love with the internet (again)

I started accessing the internet (at least a version) when my primary school had the bright idea (and funding) of buying a set of 20 iPads for the school to use when they attended Information Communication Technology classes. Being ten-year-olds, when we weren’t being taught how to browse the
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Geminispace Dr. Molly Tov

Homecoming: the small web and release from the unitary public self

In 1776, a Quaker living in Philadelphia recovered from a severe illness with a peculiar conviction: they had died and been reborn as the Public Universal Friend. The Public Universal Friend was sans gender but avec mission: to spread the message, received during the illness, that there is “Room, Room,
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Webweaving Taylor Troesh

My website is ugly because I made it

If my mom wanted good art on her fridge, she could’ve purchased reprints of works by Vermeer, Lichtenstein, Wyeth, etc. But she didn’t want good art – she wanted my art. Somebody with good taste could’ve made my website, but then it wouldn’t be mine. To bake
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Webweaving Jan Miksovsky

Site creation as content transformation

Making a website would be so much easier if the web came with a good conceptual model for thinking about site construction. If you’re making a spreadsheet, the spreadsheet grid provides a vital conceptual and spatial scaffold for your work, helping you break down your data entry and analysis
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Theory Ovi Demetrian Jr.

Close to the metal: web design and the browser

The craft of building websites evolves when it follows web browsers, instead of fighting against them Websites have evolved over the years, but in the name of evolution, there seems to be mistaken thinking that the process of building a website needs to get more complex, using Javascript frameworks and
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