Links from 2006

A rating bar script done with PHP and mySQL

Turn the web on its head with the Plain Old Webserver (POW), which adds a server to your browser.

My CSS Framework and Modular CSS articles touched on maintainability but here I am going to expand on those ideas, and attempt to suggest some guidelines to make team CSS coding and maintenance easier.

SNS attrition is real, but it is hardly as alarming as the media makes it out to be? Why? Because social circles are fundamentally dynamic.

OS X CSS editor

A Javascript + CSS replacement for Flash photo fading slideshow. Inspired by Richard Rutter's image fade demonstration.

I like this a lot.

A collection of plugins for jQuery java script library

Digital growth welcomes all donations of IT equipment big or small, from private and public organisations to an individual wanting to make a difference.

"Firefox 2.0 uses Shift+Alt as the keystroke combination to invoke access keys. On the surface, this appears to be a great idea, as it avoids clashing with the shortcut keys used for the browser. Unfortunately, the new behaviour has been poorly implemente

Are we supposed to stop providing them now? No, not really, but perhaps we should replace them with something better.

If some javascripts are only used by a small percentage of your visitors - why load them each time? It will only cost you bandwidth and your visitors download time [...] Lazy loading is the key. Or dynamic loading of .js files if you will.

Allows you to easily switch between sites on your development and live servers.

Takes a list of your favorite programs and will download and install the ones you pick.

How useful accessibility pages provided on a selection of UK Web sites were to users - in particular older people without significant impairments, but who may soon benefit from accessibility information.

New magazine site from BBC Worldwide.

One-click access to various services that provide information about the web site you are viewing.

Technology For Marketing Awards

"For many sites that reference dozens of external objects, the majority of the page load time is spent in separate HTTP requests for images, javascript, and stylesheets. AJAX probably could help, but speeding up or eliminating these separate HTTP requests

Ignoring <abbr> in favor of <acronym> is wrong for two reasons.

"I've picked one lucky website [...] and one of their primary keyword phrases "snowboard equipment" [...] to illustrate how you should perform searches that will result in high quality link acquisition targets."

You may have heard from a client whose site you designed before IE7 existed. What problems have you encountered? What hacks have you jettisoned, and with what have you replaced them?

Instead of buying furniture from a warehouse outside of town, we thought you would prefer a visit to a workshop close to the city centre: everything you buy from us is made at the back of our shop, on a digital router.

Many developers are uneasy about branching and merging, even those who consider source control essential. It can be a very complicated process, but it doesn't have to be, and it is a very powerful way to manage development.

"Firefox 2.0 doesn't actually break access keys, as was originally thought. Rather, the Firefox developers [...] decided to change access keys from Alt plus the number/letter to Alt plus Shift plus the number/letter." Gee, thanks.

The Next Big Thing is the BBC's hunt for the WORLD’S BEST YOUNG BAND.

This article highlights and answers some of the most frequently asked questions about HTML. HTML is the foundation of the Web, and both developers and designers need to understand it.

&quot;A technique to help visitors to your site read and understand the RSS and Atom feeds.&quot;

Useful tips from PG.

"Jonathan Snook has posted a few great CSS coding tips in Top CSS Tips. Several of them come down to personal preferences, and it seems my preferences differ a bit from Jonathan’s in some cases". Mine too.

Funny. I do almost the complete opposite for every point. "I thought I'd share some of my habits when it comes to doing CSS work and let me warn you, some of what I have to say is probably a little controversial."

How Blogger blocks users from getting past the front door when the browser is JavaScript-capable but is sitting behind script blocking firewalls - and how it’s not alone in making this mistake.

I've attempted to lay the foundation for every piece of website data available to marketers, researchers and the curious.

Handy.

WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected.

Site5 provides Subversion access via SSH. These are my notes on getting it working and basic usage.

"There are things floating around that purport to let you run IE 5.5 alongside IE 6.0, etc. The fact of the matter is, though, that these aren’t what your users are running. IE isn’t built like Mozilla or any other browser. It really is down into the

New cultural centre for London situated in Bethnal Green

Each are half an hour long, and - having been in the training myself - I must say they taught me more about JavaScript and the DOM than a lot of books and hours of researching why something just didn’t work.

We talk about how to design for a distributed Web, how individual sharing leads to the creation of social and business value, and also a bit about Yahoo’s Hackday and how they are trying to put social software, open APIs and microformats to work.