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- cabel.name drafts: FancyZoom 1.1 cabel.name
Javascript to zoom images inline
- SEO and Accessibility » SlideShare slideshare.net
Developer-focussed, gets to the point.
- ideasonideas » Blog Archive » Fuck style ideasonideas.com
"The word “design” is increasingly confused with “style”. For example, to most “I like the way it’s designed” means that they like the way that something looks.
Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all.
"Brand and comparison advertising done through ad-focused widgets is emerging as a viable way of using the ubiquitous applications. Widgets’ interactive features, their ability to be virally distributed and potentially be placed on a target’s own page
- Fimoculous.com - misc - A Data Point on Every Block - An Interview with Adrian Holovaty fimoculous.com
Getting local right.
- Tom Coates: Web of Data - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Run-through of Tom Coates' latest presentation. Shame the slides themselves aren't available (nag, nag, nag).
- CSS Tools: Reset CSS meyerweb.com
Meyer's reset gets permanent home.
- Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » The great implementer swindle - making badge use easy doesn’t make it clever! wait-till-i.com
"No matter how you’ll turn it – the future of web design will not revolve around pages and sites but around modules." Lots more goodness in this.
- NUCONOMY | Insights you never imagined nuconomy.com
Go beyond the old Page View model and start to measure engagement. Understand your users' activities and how they interact with the various features of your site.
- Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization? - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
"The easiest way to sell the Semantic Web vision to consumers is to talk about how it can make their lives easier. When machines understand things in human terms, and can apply that knowledge to your attention data, we'll have a web that knows what we wan
- Sniff browser history for improved user experience niallkennedy.com
Clever, well-meaning but crosses the privacy line.
- TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Online ad rates in the UK are plummeting. This model is broken uk.techcrunch.com
The implication here is that it is not more inventory we need at the moment, but better and better targeting, and more advertising based on action and interaction not on CPM. Or am I wrong?
- XHTML 2 vs. HTML 5 - I’m Mike immike.net
Good comparison of the two specs.
- Looking for open source CMS and portal software options | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
To summarise this little call for input: any suggestions, hints, and recommendations on open source content management and portal software are welcome.
Users now do basic operations with confidence and perform with skill on sites they use often. But when users try new sites, well-known usability problems still cause failures.
- jawr: Jawr - More than a Javascript/CSS compressor jawr.dev.java.net
A tunable packaging solution for Javascript and CSS which allows for rapid development of resources in separate module files.
- Sitepoint - CSS Reference reference.sitepoint.com
- Play A Multiplayer Online Game While Surfing The Web: PMOG techcrunch.com
PMOG, which is currently in private beta with 150 or so users, is a Firefox add-on that lets you interact with other users asynchronously on websites you visit.
- Font-based layouts becoming fashionable? « AlastairC alastairc.ac
"Font-based layouts will cause issues for people with visual impairments. [...] In usability testing I’ve seen people get really frustrated with horizontal scrolling. Or when they don’t notice the scrolling, frustrated with trying to do things that sh
SwitchPipe manages and forwards HTTP requests to Web application processes, automatically managing balancing, port numbers, monitoring and timeouts.
- danwebb.net - Low Pro For jQuery? danwebb.net
"While jQuery was super simple and concise when working on smaller projects, it offered no help in structuring larger applications. All you get in jQuery, aside from Ajax methods and a handful of utilities, is the ability to select nodes then doing someth
- Dave Woods - HTML, CSS, Web Design » CSS Rounded Corners Revisited dave-woods.co.uk
This tutorial will demonstrate how it can be achieved by using just one circular image and a little CSS knowledge. The HTML is fairly simple and just requires an extra span for each corner of the box.
- Kevin Kelly -- The Technium kk.org
When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can't be copied?
- SimpleBits ~ Gridlasticness simplebits.com
A few notes when trying to create a grid layout using ems
Before you run over to Survive Digg hosting and plunk down even more money, take a look at your Wordpress setup and LAMP stack. You can make them better.
- Ethnio Recruiting :: Made with 100% natural ethnioil. ethniodev.com
Ethnio is a friendly new way to recruit people from your website for research. Usability studies / Marketing studies / Surveys / Focus groups
- How YOU Can Make the Web More Structured - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
In this post we look at how content owners can implement simple annotation strategies which can help the top-down tools and search engines to make the web more structured.
Yesterday, I discovered that The Times (UK), a well-respected newspaper owned by News Corp., is involved in an extensive campaign to spam social media websites with links to Timesonline.co.uk articles.
- OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette | urlgreyhot urlgreyhot.com
In contrast to their apparent universal appeal, [social networking sites] are effectively ‘locking out’ disabled visitors, the majority of whom can’t even register, let alone participate in the on-line communities they wish to join.
- Collapsable, Foldable, Expandable Page Menus for Wordpress: The Fold Page List Plugin webspaceworks.com
provide some control on how Wordpress displays the hierarchy of its page menu.
- Tweetmeme tweetmeme.com
Watches what is going on within twitter and picks up anyone posting links to content. [Then tracks]how many other mentions of the same content are made (and how influential they are.)
- Blaze New Media » Five Wordpress “CMS Enabling” Plugins blazenewmedia.com
Is there a dearth of candidates in the digital industry? Is it hindering the growth of the sector? And what do employers, recruitment consultants and HR professionals think is going to happen this year?
- symfony Web PHP Framework symfony-project.org
- The B-List: Legacy. b-list.org
Great article on the whole IE Version Targeting thing, including some excellent point on Mac/Safari user base and not relying on pure percentages when deciding on browser support.
Web sites can more efficiently meet both goals when developers understand the significant overlap between making a Web site accessible for a mobile device and for people with disabilities.
The relaunch of JKRowling.com saw LightMaker push the boundaries of accessible Flash. This case study provides an overview of key issues tacked to make the site as accessible as possible.
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers.
- From the Top: Defining Content Language thatstandardsguy.co.uk
Probably best to ignore the dir="ltr" for majority of cases.
My personal experience registering for 87 accounts with the top online retailers and offer some tips for registration form design.
a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine optimization specialists.
- Full Page Zoom Is For Sissies tomayko.com
About a year ago, I spent the better part of a day making this site's layout entirely em based and set on a vertical baseline grid [..] Your CSS becomes completely unmaintainable.