These are some figures I put together with Sculpey   The quarter is there for a size comparison.

I was roaming about the internet the other day when I came across a captcha that had a company slogan instead of the typical distorted text.  I thought it was a pretty interesting concept and made my way over to Solve Media to check it out.

According to their intro video adding your branding to a captcha is much more engaging and results in a greater rate or retention for the user than traditional banner ads.  They also said that typing in slogans is faster for users than trying to type in that mushed up text that traditionally appears in captchas.  Sounds reasonable enough to me, but regardless I thought it was a really interesting concept to add in more advertising without adding more clutter.

http://www.solvemedia.com/index.html

There’s not much you can do about what browsers support and don’t – or which browsers your users are on.  But there are some handy tools available online that will test your browser and give you details on it’s capabilities, or just let you know if your preferred browser is playing by the rules.

Acid 3 test on Firefox 4.0.1

http://acid3.acidtests.org/
http://html5test.com/

I was looking at those pricey w3schools certifications, but everywhere I asked said it was a big waste of money. So I decided to see what alternatives there were and see if there were any certifications that were especially well know that I should take.

What I did find was the Gild website where you can get certifications for free!

The price is right, and if I learn something along the way then I say it’s definitely time well spent.  I am still considering the w3schools certifications, but I’m going to start out with the free ones from Gild and see where that takes me.

http://www.gild.com/

I stumbled across a website called SelectORacle. What it does is you input a style sheet and it breaks down exactly what is going on! Not too much help for me, but a nice resource to hold on to for newbies.

http://gallery.theopalgroup.com/selectoracle/