Weekly Round-up ~ Oct 30, 09 Edition

Every Friday, we recap our articles and round up other useful articles we read during the week on web design, development and Gov2.0. We hope you find them helpful. If you have article links you’d like to share, please post in the comment section.

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• Structured Meaning in HTML5

  HTML4 provides limited ways to give meaning to content through markup alone. In this post, we examine Microformats that provide real-world design principles, RDFa which enables extensible vocabularies and the new Microdata features of HTML5. All three seek to combine machine-readable data with human-readable content.

From Elsewhere

• Advanced Photoshop Techniques

  Photoshop has a lot of features, but we tend to stick with the ones we’re familiar with. This article reveals some excellent tricks you may not be aware of.

• UnderCover – Detect Below the Fold Views

  This is a useful JQuery plugin that detects when the user scrolls pass the page fold.

• www.css3.info/

  This is one of the best sites to get information on CSS3, complete with examples.

• typegoodness.com

  As the name implies, you can find some nice typography inspirations on this site.

• Firefox 3.6 beta Available for Download

  The latest Firefox beta is out. Lifehacker lists the new features.

• Drupal Knows Best? The White House Debate Continues

  Whitehouse.gov switched to Durpal as its CMS last week. This article from Techpresident.com has some good links to the critics and supporters of this move. Tim O’Reilly shared his thoughts last week.

• FEC Launches Data Catalog

  www.fec.gov/data/ just launched its data catalogs that contain campaign finance information.

• Facebook Widgets

  If your agency is already on Facebook, you may find the widget page useful. It shows many ways to integrate Facebook into your page

• Entering Digital Age an Expensive Proposition for GOP

  A Breakdown of GOP’s spending on their web presence.

• Open Internet