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- Want Success on Digg? Think Choc Chip Cookies - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Weird analogy but some useful points.
- Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step paulbuchheit.blogspot.com
Good argument to use for gzip. "Inevitably, someone will argue that they can't spare a few ms per page to compress the data, even though it will make their site much more responsive. However, it occured to me today that thanks to Amazon, it's very easy to compare CPU vs Bandwidth."
- The Sexy Curls jQuery Plugin by Elliott Kember elliottkember.com
Creates a page fold effect in the top right corner.
- browsermedia's browsercms at master - GitHub github.com
Humane Content Management for Rails
- Free Music Archive freemusicarchive.org
"A social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio" from WFMU, KEXP, Cash Music, Dublab and others.
- Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities :: UXmatters uxmatters.com
The concept of usability often seems to exclude people with disabilities, as though just access is all they are entitled to. What about creating a good user experience for people with disabilities—going beyond making a Web site merely accessible to make it truly usable for them?
- Del.icio.us Finally Gets Some Respect from Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Two calls for Delicious data are now supported inside BOSS: the number of times a URL has been bookmarked and the top tags that users have applied to categorize that URL. Delicious has its own API, but it's not as helpful as this integration with BOSS is.
- Designers Toolbox: Web Safe Area designerstoolbox.com
PSDs illustrating safe areas for various browsers.
- Twitter Traffic Explodes...And Not Being Driven by the Usual Suspects! (comScore Voices) comscore.com
Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic recently authored an interesting blog post about the demographics of Twitter users. What he discovered was that 18-24 year olds, the traditional social media early adopters, are actually 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter (Index of 88). It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend.
- Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta informationarchitects.jp
New Web Trends map is nearly there.
The social sites we visit today are not just friend networks - they're also built around objects that connect people with shared interests. These social objects could be anything from a photo on flickr to a video on YouTube or a track on Last.fm.
- WP Framework - A blank WordPress Theme Framework wpframework.com
Possible sandbox alternative.
- Horizon of Stars: Intersection of the web and tangible objects (manufacturing-as-a-service) simoncast.blogspot.com
Manufacturing-as-a-service removes the equipment and capital barrier to entry for new product companies. These companies can focus on product design and building the community around the product and leave the operation of the manufacturing hardware to manufacturing-as-a-service guys.
- Alkaline - Litmus litmusapp.com
"Tests your website designs across 17 different Windows browsers right from your Mac desktop in seconds. No need for virtual machines, Windows licenses, or any messing around with Windows Update." Requires a litmus account.
- Ending the Great H1 Debate | Web Design Blog: Web Design & Innovation in web standards : Viget Labs viget.com
According to Cutts, more than one h1 is fine as long as you don't go crazy. Pretty much as expected.
Take a look at Verified By Visa. Allegedly this protects cardholders - by training them to expect a process in which there’s absolutely no way to know whether you are being phished or not.
- Intro to Git for Web Designers | Webdesigner Depot webdesignerdepot.com
- Send Me Home - World Peace through Wandering Items sendmehome.com
A free tool that lets you assign a unique code to anything.
- NVDA – a free, open source screen reader | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Hadn't come across this one.
When all the sections end evenly on the page, users subconsciously decide there isn’t anything else to look for and don’t try to scroll. Of course, if they don’t scroll, they miss important content, such as the list of products.
- 50 swinish ways to annoy web users | Blog | Econsultancy econsultancy.com
Makes a handy checklist of stuff not to do.
- Bring Back The Webmaster | crackunit.com crackunit.com
"What I like about the term webmaster is that it implies that one person is the big boss. The master of the site. The person who speaks with the voice of the machine. When you come across a brilliant site it so often feels like it comes through one person. Or at least there’s a very strong sense of singularity in the way it’s written and presented." I always wanted to be a webmaster.
- noswfupload - Google Code code.google.com
Multiple files upload without SWF objects, applets Java, or other third parts plug-ins.
- Boards >> The Natural Selection of Interestingness boardsmag.com
Despite early hype, viral films are still few and far between. Why? Where is viral now, how has it evolved, and what's the future for disseminating online content?
- The music social network problem - A Song A Day songaday.co.uk
The relationship between musicians and the people who make music websites is slightly broken. The problem is that anyone developing a new service for bands has to make money to keep the project afloat - and that means pulling in enough eyeballs to sell advertising on the site. The best way to get people to stick around to click on some ads? Make them invest time and energy in creating a profile, and encourage them to continually update it.
- Heroku heroku.com
- Expression Web SuperPreview makes cross-browser testing like moist delicious cake - istartedsomething istartedsomething.com
Allows you to compare different [IE] rendering engines in a single unified interface
- Striking Web Sites with Font Stacks that Inspire - Inspiration Bit inspirationbit.com
More on font stacks.
- Color Oracle colororacle.cartography.ch
Takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.
- Accessibility Tips accessibilitytips.com
Yahoo folk providing accessibility info.
- django-compress - Google Code code.google.com
A Django application that automates CSS/JavaScript compression and helps in making delivery of static media more efficient
- Akoha ~ Come Play It Forward akoha.com
The world’s first social reality game where you can earn points by playing real-world missions with your friends. Missions might include giving someone your favorite book, inviting a friend for drinks, or buying a friend some chocolate.
- Guardian opens APIs and data | Media | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"The Guardian launched its 'Open Platform' with APIs for all of its content and a sets of data collected by its editors." Brave. Ace.
- scraplab : instant sinatra deployment with heroku scraplab.net
- Rescue Team Management, Incident Logs, Analytics: Decisions For Heroes. decisionsforheroes.com
Makes me wish I was a hero. "A collaborative rescue team management tool to record and analyse rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork, we act as a platform, generating real-time profiles of members, available resources, and activities. Decisions for Heroes uses this data to deliver live and intelligent information to the field."
You think of people who do know CSS as designers, not giving any credit to the engineering prowess required to tame the stylesheet of a multinational corporation because (self-taught as they are) most true front-end gurus don’t speak the same language as you do. Their skill appears to be a black-art, some kind of magic, or internalized instinct for browser flaws. This is your guess anyway, because you simply can’t communicate with them.