As you probably noticed, I’ve included in the footer of my WordPress blog several listings of items coming from “social” services (Del.icio.us, Twitter and Flickr). In this article I’ll tell you how to simply achieve a smiliar platform by presenting you some neat and easy-to-use plug-ins for WordPress.

(If you don’t know what these services are about, you will find some ressources to look further at the bottom of this article.)

I mostly use these plug-ins in order to add valuable content to my website, but also, so that my blog acts as a kind of platform that will display my various affiliations and contributions on other web spaces.

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• del.icio.us
• flickr
• plug-in
• twitter
• wordpress

This nifty tool called Vischeck simulates colorblind vision for your Websites. It currently doesn’t function 100% with complex CSS, but, at least, you can check if the contrast values you used for fonts and backgrounds are enough to be visible and readable by people who live with daltonism.

Simulate colorblind vision with your own Web pages

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• accessibility
• usability
• webdesign

Everything was just fine on one of my Web developping projects : valid, correct and conform code, right display on Firefox and on Explorer. But one day, a client (using IE6) phoned me asking why the content had disappeared from the web pages. I switched on IE6 to look, but nothing was wrong. After cleaning my cache several times and trying again to see the ghost content… Booh ! The text and photos suddenly disappeared under my eyes.

After doing some research on what may cause the content to swing in that odd way, I found informations on what is funnily called the “peek-a-boo” bug. Basically, IE6 has some kind of interpretations problems with floating divs included in liquid boxes. The bug can be easily fixed by applying a relative position to the parented div.

Learn more about the “peek-a-boo” bug (IE6)