A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 256

April 08, 2008

Bring your data to visual life with web standards, and roll your own Google-style maps.

Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards

by Wilson Miner

When designing interfaces for browsing data-driven sites, creating navigation elements that are also visualization tools helps the user make better decisions. Wilson Miner demonstrates three techniques for incorporating data visualization into standards-based navigation patterns.

Take Control of Your Maps

by Paul Smith

It is now possible to replicate Google Maps’ functionality with open source software and produce high-quality mapping applications tailored to your design goals. Paul Smith shows how.

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Editor’s Choice

originally ran: September 27, 2002

CSS Design: Taming Lists

by Mark Newhouse

Do you crave the disciplined order of proper (X)HTML lists but long for control over their presentation? You can put a stop to their wild ways and bad behavior. Mark Newhouse shows you how to tame those lists by making them submit to your CSS while maintaining logical HTML structure.