#web (3,832 links)
Registration keeps out good posters and attracts trolls? Who'd have thought that?
- Specifics on CSS Specificity - CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
The best way to explain it is to start with an example of where specificity gets confusing and perhaps doesn’t behave like you would expect. Then we’ll take a closer look at how to calculate the actual specificity value to determine which selector takes precedence.
According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after emailing a link, the most popular method of sharing is now Facebook. The numbers are interesting - but there are also some big caveats to keep in mind.
- Some Perspective On Browser Market Share | Continuing Intermittent Incoherency alex.dojotoolkit.org
Good perspective on Flash/browser penetration from John Dowdell at Adobe.
- Aeracode :: South aeracode.org
Intelligent schema migrations for Django apps.
Companies should create rich and immersive website experiences, drawing from some of the techniques for game design to build brand affinity and differentiate their sites.
- Unit Interactive :: Labs :: Unit PNG Fix labs.unitinteractive.com
Improved PNG fix.
- Papervision3D blog.papervision3d.org
- Precedent Communications | Government Web sites fail to provide basic online services precedent.co.uk
From 2006. "The report hailed the Home Office as the clear winner in design and navigation, scoring 80.5 points out of 100."
- As the Page Scrolls uie.com
One of the most significant findings of our research on web-site usability is that users are perfectly willing to scroll. However, they’ll only do it if the page gives them strong clues that scrolling will help them find what they’re looking for.
- FT.com | Tech Blog | Silicon Roundabout: Is this the heart of the UK’s new dotcom boom? blogs.ft.com
Heh, funny.
- Django Simplepages - a Basic CMS System punteney.com
A simple Django CMS that can be used stand alone or with your existing Django site.
- django-assets - Google Code code.google.com
"A creative digital and video production agency" Web, TV, video and mobile.
- Strange sIFR / screen-reader bug | AlastairC alastairc.ac
When I got to the sIFR method (scalable Inman Flash Replacement), the Windows based screen readers read out the heading twice.
- views from space: Faust: Flash Augmenting Standards blog.space150.com
In Faust, content for Flash is a single source of data: the HTML. You don’t need a new XML structure. The same lists, images, and links you display for users without Flash are consumed for users with Flash.
The new guidelines for UK public sector bodies on ‘Delivering inclusive websites’ are a bewildering blend of the vague with the Draconian.
- Brands on Flickr » didn’t see that coming geoffnorthcott.com
- Versionista.com: Track changes to any Web site versionista.com
Monitors Web sites that you specify for edits. Our Web-based service records every change, clearly highlighting added or deleted words and sentences.
- Twitturly - Real-time Link Tracking on Twitter twitturly.com
A service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum opera.com
"A complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics." Great, but picked up a couple of things I disagree with already.
- Show Us a Better Way showusabetterway.com
The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated.
- Web Worker Daily » Archive Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive « webworkerdaily.com
"The busyness economy works on face time, incremental improvement, strategic long-term planning, return on investment, and hierarchical control. The burst economy, enabled by the Web, works on innovation, flat knowledge networks, and discontinuous product
- Get Started With Django - Webmonkey webmonkey.com
Webmonkey's Django tutorial.
- Baynote: The Collective Intelligence Platform baynote.com
On-demand recommendations and social search for websites.
E-commerce rich media gubbins.
...combines leading social commerce technology with a team of dedicated pros who make it easy to turn your customer voice into serious business results.
- Tiled backgrounds designer bgpatterns.com
Extensive new Last.fm API. Joy!
- Unit Interactive :: Blog :: Better CSS Font Stacks unitinteractive.com
Nice.
- Hosts : Djangofriendly djangofriendly.com
Djangofriendly is a community resource for finding the friendliest Django hosting environments.
- Google Maps API for Flash - Google Code code.google.com
This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. Similar to the JavaScript version, this ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a variety of services.
- Activate The Death Ray | A demonstration site by Andy Clarke activatethedeathray.com
A Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008.
On my new homepage, a combined list of my tweets, bookmarks, and user comments on my site appear underneath my latest blog entries. I use a fun bit of Django code to pull these various items together, sorted by publication date
- Django snippets: Welcome djangosnippets.org
"A site for users of the Django web framework to come together and share useful "snippets" of reusable code."
- Media and performance b-list.org
Why, exactly, it’s considered important to have a separate server (or a separate service, in the case of something like S3) handling your media.
- haudio - Microformats microformats.org
"A simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding information about audio recordings in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML". Can't believe I missed this microformat. To integrate.
They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software.