#web (3832 links)
- Torchbox - Torchbox Ltd torchbox.com
User-centred design and internet software development for inclusive, accessible web communication
- Microsoft takes email design back 5 years - Campaign Monitor Blog campaignmonitor.com
Outlook 2007, released next month, will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use the crippled Microsoft Word rendering engine.
Some information [regarding what] people are actually expecting from a good web developer.
- 24 ways: Marking Up a Tag Cloud 24ways.org
The problem is, everyone’s doing it wrong.
- Showing Hyperlink Cues with CSS (Ask the CSS Guy) askthecssguy.com
...in IE7, Firefox, and Safari.
This site contains information and design tools. They may not show you exactly what dichromats see, but will help you to understand which colours are easily confused.
- Easy cross-browser transparency | Bite Size Standards bitesizestandards.com
There is an easier way; albeit at the expense of valid CSS.
The same emotional forces that prompt us to buy can also cause us to link, bookmark, and Digg. The context is different, as are the nuances, but it’s still a matter of providing compelling benefits in the form of content.
- Easy Clearing: Even Bloody Easier Clearing thoughtballoon.co.uk
What we actually need is a selector that applies to everything immediately after our floated element, or its container. The W3C spec already has this element: the adjacent selector: A + B.
- Elastic layout - wrong term? » AlastairC alastairc.ac
There needs to be another term for font-based layouts. Also, there is a mistaken assumption about the accessibility of font-based layouts.
- CSS-Based Tables: Modern Solutions | Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Over 30 modern css-based techniques in a brief overview.
- How to test HTML emails - Campaign Monitor Blog campaignmonitor.com
...what I look for when I test, how I test for various viewing scenarios, what techniques/utilities I use for debugging and what email clients I use in my suite.
- Google Webmaster Tools - Site Status google.com
Use this step-by-step process to learn more about your site's status in the Google index.
- Top 10 mistakes when selecting a CMS steptwo.com.au
It is easy to get caught up in the detail of the requirements and the CMS project, losing sight of the overall objectives and process.
- 24 ways: The Mobile Web, Simplified 24ways.org
Considering a foray into mobile web development? Following are four things you need to know before making the leap.
- JavaScript production notes | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Javascript follow-up to Andy Budd's 24 ways article, "A Message To You, Rudy".
- Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing Operator labs.mozilla.com
A Microformat Detection Extension for Firefox 2
- A List Apart: Articles: Making Compact Forms More Accessible alistapart.com
Forms pose a series of usability and accessibility challenges, many of which are made more complex when you need to build a form to fit into a small space.
If we want to serve devices whose viewports range from 240 pixels to about 1680 pixels—and with resolution ranging from 72 to 150 pixels per inch—we need a new method.
- WYMeditor - standards-compliant XHTML editor - Home wymeditor.org
A web-based WYSIWYM editor.
- Forget WYSIWYG editors - use WYSIWYM instead | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
There is another kind of editor that is better suited than WYSIWYG for content-driven, client-edited sites - the WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor.
This technique, CSS production notes, places your page production notes in one convenient place within an XHTML document and uses nothing more than meaningful markup and CSS.
- Intelligent Experience Design » Articles » Marissa Mayer of Google: Speed Good, AJAX Not So Good paradymesolutions.com
"The study found that users preferred speedy page loads to a greater number of results per page and to ‘highly interactive ajax features’. Although users reported that they preferred more results per page, their expressed desires diverged from their a
- Simple time tracking software - Harvest getharvest.com
...brings simplicity back to time tracking. Quick to set up and easy to use, it provides you with insights on how your organization is spending its time.
- Wesabe wesabe.com
Makes it easy to better understand how you spend your money and links you to a community of people dedicated to helping each other make better financial decisions.
- The easiest way to PNG support in IE6 at blog.bjorkoy.com blog.bjorkoy.com
Uses a .htc. Not ideal.
- Dump iframes and use object elements instead | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
A very clever way of using an object element to insert an external HTML document into a page. [instead of using iframe]
- Selenium Remote Control: About openqa.org
A test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.
A PHP script which takes care of merging files on the fly whilst also versioning the merged file automatically as the various component files change.
- HTML emails and Microsoft Live Mail thoughtballoon.co.uk
Dan describes problems with how "Microsofts' new alternative for hotmail, Live Mail" affects HTML emails.
- Functional Accessibility Evaluator: Run FAE fae.cita.uiuc.edu
Use this form to evaluate the functional accessibility of a single Web page.
- Vitamin Features » How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design? thinkvitamin.com
Good design is based on the C.R.A.P. principles where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity
- 24 ways: Compose to a Vertical Rhythm 24ways.org
"On the Web, vertical rhythm – the spacing and arrangement of text as the reader descends the page – is contributed to by three factors: font size, line height and margin or padding. All of these factors must calculated with care in order that the rhy
- 101 Easy Ways to use Google's New Website Optimizer conversion-rate-experts.com
Info on Google's new Website Optimizer tool.
- Authentic Jobs ~ Full-time and freelance job opportunities for designers and developers authenticjobs.com
Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for standards-aware designers and developers and the companies seeking to hire them.
- Jonathan Yuen (2006) jonathanyuen.com
- gotAPI.com - quick developer reference for CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, AJAX, SQL and more gotapi.com
The most comprehensive API collection on the web.
- Vitamin Features » Communicating web 2.0 through design thinkvitamin.com
UI expert Robert Hoekman Jr shows you how to educate your visitors about the features of contemporary sites and web apps through instructive design.
- Understanding Mobile 2.0 readwriteweb.com
The idea is that the mobile web will become the dominant access method in many countries of the world, with devices that become more hybrid and networks that become more powerful - everywhere in the next decade to come.
- Nidahas » Forms markup and CSS - Revisited nidahas.com
A flexible, semantically correct, and dare I say, accessible template to which such features could be readily applied.
- Keeping the cruft out of your release - (37signals) 37signals.com
We recently needed to add an email field to something we’re working on. And to make sure we didn’t forget about it we made it ridiculous. Now it works, but we can also tell it’s not finished. And we can have a laugh about it.
- Taming the RSS beast - (37signals) 37signals.com
"There should be an alternative to one-size-fits-all RSS feeds for busy sites. Too many high-volume sites assume everyone wants to read every post. That’s wishful thinking. Some readers may want 5+ posts a day from your site, but what about moderate fan
"This article is meant to offer a solution to my earlier complaints by offering a brief explanation of the process steps—already familiar to information architects and the teams that employ them—which lead to effective scoping and wireframes, along wi
- Microformats Icons -- The brilliant work of Wolfgang Bartelme factorycity.net
Make your own microformat icons and add them to the wiki with Wolfgang's excellent Icon DevKit. Contains both Photoshop and Illustrator vector content.
- Digital Web Magazine - Push my <code>button</code> digital-web.com
Read the comments for this article - button is best avoided.
- Abbey - The word on your street thewordonyourstreet.com