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A website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail.
- Let me google that for you letmegooglethatforyou.com
This is for all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves.
- tarpipe tarpipe.com
Worth investigating. "Makes it easy to share content across different social media applications"
- Google Analytics Blog: Want to track Adobe Flash? Now you can! analytics.blogspot.com
This feature is a translation of the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language that dramatically simplifies the ability to track Flash, Flex and AS3 content.
- Amazon CloudFront aws.amazon.com
"A web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments." Beaut.
- 5 Lessons in Promoting Events Using Social Media (Back to Basics) — Climb to the Stars climbtothestars.org
Some dead handy tips here.
Bit of a scare-story headline but some decent points here.
- Example CSS Style Guide - Unit Testing for CSS? thoughtballoon.co.uk
I've been reading about unit testing for jQuery and wonder if an analagous approach could be used on a CSS system. Probably not, but a style guide featuring every type of box, unit, module and typographic style on the site can quickly allow you to not only see if any changes you make have knock-on or regression errors, but allow you to see what your styles imply.
- Where is Your Username registered usernamecheck.com
Handy.
- Plugins | jQuery Plugins plugins.jquery.com
For Ajax-driven pages to have back/forward navigation and to allow bookmarking.
- Free our data: Plenty of ideas for freeing government data and finding a loo | Technology | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
Winners announced.
- @font-face in IE: Making Web Fonts Work — Jon Tan 陳 jontangerine.com
As you probably know @font-face already works in Safari 3 via WebKit and is supported in the latest Firefox 3.1 beta. With IE, that means around 75% of the world audience could see custom typefaces today if their EULAs allowed it. Fortunately, there are good free faces available to us already, as well as some commercial faces that permit embedding.
- Pixels to Ems Conversion Table for CSS — Jon Tan 陳 jontangerine.com
- 1 (Awesome) Way To Avoid the (Not So Excellent) Flash of (Amazing) Unstyled Content » Learning jQuery - Tutorials and Information learningjquery.com
Nice way of avoiding FOUC.
- Validator.nu (X)HTML5 Validator html5.validator.nu
"Highly Experimental" as of posting.
- UTF-8: The Secret of Character Encoding - HTML Purifier htmlpurifier.org
- Profission Partnership - Creative Design Agency, London UK profission.com
A few weeks ago we released a version of the Flickr site tailored specifically for the iPhone. Developing this site was very different from any other project I’ve worked on; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow celluar connections.
- typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML typeface.neocracy.org
Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough.
- Likemind - Home likemindgroup.com
- WordPress › XML Google Maps « WordPress Plugins wordpress.org
Allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. You just have to add a link to your self defined Map from My Google Maps, Picasa Webalbum Picture Map, any geoRSS Feed (like Flickr), your uploaded Google Earth file (kmz, kml) or any other dynamic or static Google Earth file (umapper.com, flickr.com, etc.)
- Band Metrics - Private Beta bandmetrics.com
Sounds dead handy. In beta. "Band Metrics helps musicians and bands analyze and measure the success of their music."
- jMaps Framework Documentation jmaps.digitalspaghetti.me.uk
A jQuery plugin that provide a easy to use and powerful API for creating dynamic Google Maps.
- Digital Web Magazine - Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong digital-web.com
"When released, Internet Explorer 8 will support many new values for the CSS display property, including the table-related values: table, table-row, and table-cell—and it’s the last major browser to come on board with this support. This event will mark the end of complex CSS layout techniques" assuming one doesn't care about IE6, IE7 or source order.
- Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby poignantguide.net
- django-bloom - Google Code code.google.com
Bloom is set of open source pluggable applications for rapidly developing mobile websites in Django.
- Conditional classnames | paulhammond.org paulhammond.org
Technique for IE specific stylesheets: "<!--[if IE ]><body class="ie"><![endif]-->" Clever clever.
- Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide docs.amazonwebservices.com
- Shadowbox.js Media Viewer mjijackson.com
Library agnostic lightbox script.
- It Could Be Worse » Blog Archive » Improving Freecycle timandkathy.co.uk
- Tony-b Machine tony-b.org
Brilliant, daft techno machine.
- Hemingway for Wordpress 2.5+ | Xiaoka Notes notes.xiaoka.com
A port of Hemingway for Wordpress 2.5 and 2.6.
- How many social media platforms?!!! | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
Social media strategy suggestions from Dubber.
- django-tinymce - Google Code code.google.com
A Django application that contains a widget to render a form field as a TinyMCE editor.
- django-reversion - Google Code code.google.com
Reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities.
- sIFR Generator sifrgenerator.com
An online tool that allows you to create sIFR .swf files with a few clicks of your mouse. Simply upload the TTF font of the font you want to convert, preview and download.