Day: October 4, 2006

In the beginnging…

I am a native of Jesup, Georgia in the southeast United States of America. I lived here until graduation from Wayne County High School in 1990.

At this point I attended the University of Georgia until the spring of 1992, at which point I moved back home after realizing, at the behest of the UGA Registrar, that I had bitten off more than I could chew. I then proceeded to attend Coastal Georgia Community College, which was known then by the moniker Brunswick College. At this point I finally realized that what I wanted to study was computers.

Atfer graduating from Coastal Georgia Community College, I attended Valdosta State University where I obtained a degree in Computer Information Systems. I then applied for and won a staff position to run the IT Helpdesk at VSU.

Move along, Move along

During my time as a student at VSU, I met a wonderful woman named Pattie Gaylor. In late 2000 we began to date and in May of 2001 I asked for her hadn in marriage. After an extended engagement, we became husband and wife on July 31, 2004. We were married on Cherokee Lake in Wayne County at the lake house that belonged to the family of one of my best friends from high school.

Darkness descends

In The Phases of the Moon, William Butler Yeats wrote:

All thought becomes an image and the soul Becomes a body: that body and that soul Too perfect at the full to lie in a cradle, Too lonely for the traffic of the world: Body and soul cast out and cast away Beyond the visible world. All dreams of the soul

End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.

On August 16, 2004, due to complication stemming from illness, my wife and soulmate died.

Posted by arf in : HTML, Web Development , add a comment

So everybody wants there website to be useable by the handicapped. Which of course means that sooner or later, your boss is gonna walk into your office and say

“Johnson, I want my disabled nephew to be able to navigate our site by the end of business on Friday.”

Now if you have an atypical boss, this demand will be levied on Monday morning, first thing, but as we all know, most bosses don’t work that way.

So what is a poor web-slinger to do? Well, one thing you could try is a little-used HTML attribute called access keys. Access keys allow you to associate a hyperlink in a webpage with a particular keystroke on the keyboard.

Sounds cool, right? So why is it used so sparingly? The reason is because only a small handful of the available browsers support this attribute.

For more on access keys, visit the article Accesskeys: Unlocking Hidden Navigation, over at the excellent site A List Apart.