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		<title>New W3C markup validator</title>
		<link>http://www.nikoport.com/2007/08/06/new-w3c-markup-validator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niko Neugebauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, W3C has released a new version of a html markup validator (0.80). 8 months after the last release and a lot of work with 2 beta versions, W3C has presented a new &#8220;revamped&#8221; markup validator. They describe it as a &#8220;major milestone in the development of the validator&#8221;, that besides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jakob Nielsen on sitemaps in 2000</title>
		<link>http://www.nikoport.com/2007/05/24/jakob-nielsen-on-sitemaps-in-2000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 22:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niko Neugebauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, while browsing an old book called &#8220;Designing Web Usability&#8221;, written by Jakob Nielsen in the far 2000 (some 7 years ago), i have found a reference to the idea of distributing site content to the search engines in the form of the. On the page 238 there is small subtitle &#8220;Integrating Sites and Search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar</title>
		<link>http://www.nikoport.com/2007/05/10/internet-explorer-developer-toolbar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 20:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niko Neugebauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has finally release the final version (1.0) of the infamous Internet Explorer Developer Tooolbar, which works exactly copies the functionality of the Web Developer Toolbar extension for Firefox. After 2 years of development, the first (1.0) version has arrived and is available for every web developer. Microsoft has promised to release a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Factuplus 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.nikoport.com/2007/02/15/factuplus-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niko Neugebauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Factuplus 2006 is the worst piece of software i have ever seen in my entire life. Really. Seeing a popular in Portugal program in a year 2007 which has a look and feel of a 1989-1993 program makes you feel &#8211; &#8220;i want my money back&#8221;. Paying 180 euros for such a shameful software makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portuguese banks research</title>
		<link>http://www.nikoport.com/2007/01/29/portuguese-banks-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niko Neugebauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost one year later, after <a href="http://www.nikoport.com/2006/02/07/portwatch/">the original Portwatch research</a>, i have decided to do one more research, this time dedicated to the standard compliance (and not compliance) of the portuguese banks.
I am expecting to be able to conduct a new research dedicated to the principal portuguese municipalities later this year, just to be able to compare if there is any progress, but i also wish to compare other "industries" and governmental authorities, so i am going to include them all into Portwatch or whatever name this project will shape into in the nearest future.

I have visited websites of 9 biggest portuguese banks, to compare their standards compliance, to test their sites in 3 major browsers - Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, and to know if there is at least one bank who cares about their customers with special needs. The banks i have chosen to test are: Banif, Barclays, BES, BPI, CGD, Deutsche Bank, Millenium BCP, Montepio and Totta, as the others only make part of these ones, or their impact is really insignificant for 99% of the portuguese bank customers.]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft.com redesign</title>
		<link>http://www.nikoport.com/2007/01/09/microsoftcom-redesign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niko Neugebauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About one month ago, Microsoft has redesigned their home page, to make it more usable, to allow people a better search on their page, etc&#8230; &#8220;The new page incorporates months of research, testing, customer feedback, and refinements.&#8221; &#8211; are the (marketing) words published by them selfs promoting a &#8220;well done&#8221; work to the believers.
As it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portwatch Austria</title>
		<link>http://www.nikoport.com/2006/04/10/portwatch-austria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niko Neugebauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 1 month later then expected, here are the results of the research&#8230; First of all &#8211; seeing Austrian&#8217;s pages after the Spanish is not the most pleasant thing which can be done. Having set my expectations extremly high for the Austrian&#8217;s municipalities i was quite disappointed with the most of them, though at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portwatch Spain</title>
		<link>http://www.nikoport.com/2006/03/06/portwatch-spain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niko Neugebauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, after some days i have come to finallize the results of the research. First i should say that i was quite surprised. I have not expected, that there are so many advanced regional governments in Spain. It is a pleasure to surf on such sites as Galicia or Catalonia. I am really impressed, maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Target</title>
		<link>http://www.nikoport.com/2006/02/13/blind-target/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikoport.com/2006/02/13/blind-target/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niko Neugebauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it was written by Derek, Molly, WebStandards.org and a lot of others &#8211; there is a new law suit, by U.S. National Federation of the Blind (NFB) against a major american company &#8211; The target. As always, the opinions over the web are very divided, but as for me, i am sticking to those, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tables vs CSS</title>
		<link>http://www.nikoport.com/2006/02/11/tables-vs-css/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niko Neugebauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the StyleGala i have found this site, which critices the point of using tableless design, and i have found this article extremly interesting. While not agreeing in a lot of aspects, i feel it represents an important point of view &#8212; an opposite point of view, which have been missing inside the webdesigners community.
Here [...]]]></description>
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