#web (3,832 links)
- Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus plupload.com
Allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads.
- QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession quirksmode.org
"The iPhone has become an obsession. If we don’t pay attention, we’ll have a mobile web that only works on the iPhone. And then we’ll have the real mobile web that wasn’t made by us and doesn’t give a shit about web standards and best practices." Overstating things somewhat but still a useful reminder.
- The hidden power of border-radius « CreativityDen blog.creativityden.com
- In the Woods – Vertical Centering With CSS blog.themeforest.net
- Top 10 tips to a new django developer - 0 & 1 zeroandone.posterous.com
Cake or death?
- Revised Font Stack | A Way Back awayback.com
These font-stacks are created after considering the font-share percentage on both Mac and Windows platforms and then checked in browser for x-height and other issues (like: readability).
- Life Below 600px | I Am Paddy iampaddy.com
The fold is one of those guidelines that has been thrown about so much that it's now become a 'rule' of web design (or maybe more appropriately a 'ball and chain' of web design) with web designers blindly obeying without question.
- The Beauty of CSS3 Animation | INSIC DESIGNS blog.insicdesigns.com
- How to Use Link TITLE Attribute Correctly | Search Engine Journal searchenginejournal.com
Useful one to point clients at. "A couple of years ago, Googlers confirmed they did not use TITLE attribute in the algorithm because it was used too seldom. This has changes since then but I still failed to spot any evidence that link TITLE attribute somehow influenced the rankings."
- Official Google Enterprise Blog: Modern browsers for modern applications googleenterprise.blogspot.com
Google gradually dropping support for IE6. "Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites."
- Dynamic Dummy Image Generator dummyimage.com
Not entirely buying all the arguments in this one but raises some very worthwhile points.
I sort of hate the fact that I'm saving this. It is useful, though.
- Open Site Explorer Link Analysis opensiteexplorer.org
SEOMoz's new link popularity checker and backlink analysis tool.
- Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem? - Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
- CSScharts - bar charts created with pure CSS icant.co.uk
Very nice.
This looks like it could be most handy. "If you’re building a multi-language website or app, you probably use language files. When you change content in one language file, you need to remember to update the other language files. Even with source control, this can get messy pretty quickly if you have many languages, many translators or a large site. We encountered these problems ourselves and needed a tool to keep things organized - so we built String."
- CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design • Perishable Press perishablepress.com
A fine looking round-up.
- phonydev.com » Apple touch icon phonydev.com
Apple touch home icon info, including instructions on removing the shiny-shiny.
- Redmine - Overview - Redmine redmine.org
A RoR Trac clone.
- WebFaction Wiki - InstallScripts wiki.webfaction.com
Unofficial webfaction install scripts: CakePHP, AWStats, MediaWiki and more...
- WebFaction Forum / Redirecting a HTTP site to a HTTPS site. forum.webfaction.com
Webfaction-specific. Useful for build tools (create a new non-HTTP site in webfaction with an automagic redirect to https equivalent url).
- How to obtain and install an SSL/TLS certificate, for free arstechnica.com
Anyone operating a server on any scale should want a digital certificate to encrypt data between clients and services, whether for personal, office, or public use. Ars tells you how to obtain and install one, for free.
- ongoing · Doing It Wrong tbray.org
What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.
- django-lint - Statically check Django applications « code « lamby chris-lamb.co.uk
Reports on common programming errors and bad code smells, including checking for nullable CharField field types, the use of brittle or deprecated Django features (such as auto_now_add) as well as the absence of recommended options in settings.py. It aims to encourage the development of high-quality re-usable Django applications.
- virtualhost-sh - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
This script allows you to easily create virtual hosts for a development environment on Mac OS X with the built-in Apache server so that you can reflect a production environment locally.
- Setting up Photoshop for web and iPhone dev bjango.com
Most people who have designed web sites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aims to solve those problems once and for all.
- Perfection kills » Optimizing HTML perfectionkills.com
- ImageOptim – PNG/JPEG/GIF optimizer for Mac OS X imageoptim.pornel.net
"Optimizes images [...] by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations." Be interesting to see how this stacks up against smush.it.
- Slammer - Designer's Geometry Box ringce.com
Gives you any grid you want, anywhere you want: Typographic Grids, Golden Sections, Fibonacci series or Rule of Thirds. Thats not all, Slammer also has Rulers, Crosshairs, Magnifier, Measurements & Screenshots
"Some of the tricks are brand new, some are very, very old, IE5.5. old. They all have in common the "fewer or no images" mantra."
- Templating Engines in PHP - Fabien Potencier fabien.potencier.org
Fabien Potencier of Symfony on PHP templating and his django-like twig template language.
- Soma FontFriend • Soma Design somadesign.ca
A bookmarklet for typographically obsessed web designers. It enables rapid checking of fonts and font styles directly in the browser without editing code and refreshing pages.
- Pagetest - where web sites go to get FAST! webpagetest.org
Shows "a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist."
- Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Browser Size googlecode.blogspot.com
I'm not sure I approve.
- 24 ways: Going Nuts with CSS Transitions 24ways.org
- Twig - The flexible, fast, and secure template language for PHP twig-project.org
- Visual Website Optimizer - Hassle-free A/B, Split and Multivariate Testing visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
- Easy front-end framework easyframework.com
A CSS/HTML/JavaScript framework started as a personal project and then grew into something more. The idea behind it is to reduce the amount of time spent on setting up the basic master HTML template by reusing the same coding techniques.
- 24 ways: Working With RGBA Colour 24ways.org
- Google Public DNS code.google.com
A free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.
- Zend Framework: Documentation framework.zend.com
Zend Framework Coding Standard for PHP
- High Performance Web Sites :: Google Analytics goes async stevesouders.com
It’s extremely cool to see this pattern being evangelized for such a major piece of the Internet.
- HTML Email Starter Template: Free Download - ravelrumba ravelrumba.com
It’s not intended to be a fully designed template, but rather a foundation for a design.
- SilverStripe.org - Open Source CMS / Framework silverstripe.org