Vaguery + web-design   87

Usage - GitHub
"Jekyll at its core is a text transformation engine. The concept behind the system is this: you give it text written in your favorite markup language, be that Markdown, Textile, or just plain HTML, and it churns that through a layout or series of layout files. Throughout that process you can tweak how you want the site URLs to look, what data gets displayed on the layout and more. This is all done through strictly editing files, and the web interface is the final product."
Ruby  library  GitHub  web-design  markup  toolkit 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Compass Help | Compass Documentation
"Compass is an open-source CSS authoring framework which uses the Sass stylesheet language to make writing stylesheets powerful and easy. If you're not familiar with Sass, you can take a look at these simple tutorials to get caught up."
css  web-design  framework  SASS  Ruby 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Bitstream Management Discusses Q1 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha
"Now I'll go to the e-commerce MyFonts.com business. MyFonts.com continues to grow, recording its highest quarterly revenue since inception during the first quarter of 2011. First quarter, 2011, MyFonts revenue was up 25% year-over-year. MyFonts revenue growth was driven by new user acquisition and the addition of Webfonts. Over 70,000 new users registered in MyFonts during the first quarter.
As we discussed on the last earnings call, MyFonts introduced Webfonts in January of this year as a way to offer customers a streamlined way to purchase and manage fonts for their websites. Webfonts enabled publishers of Webfonts -- of webpages to use any font just like print media. Before Webfonts, web designers were limited to a certain fonts like Times New Roman and Arial."
web-design  investing  earnings-calls  typography  business-culture  webfonts 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Get Mental Notes
"In the midst of a busy project it's all too easy to forget the nuances that distinguish great products. Mental Notes brings together 50 insights from psychology into an easy reference and brainstorming tool. Each card describes one insight into human behavior and suggests ways to apply this to the design of Web sites, Web apps, and software applications."
inspiration  habit  cards  web-design  project-management  via:mitten 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating
"Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing."
web-applications  web-design  css  framework  Rails  defaults 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Isotope
"An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts"
javascript  layout  library  design  web-design  from delicious
february 2011 by Vaguery
Mercury
"Quickly build web application mockups using technology you use every day."
web-design  framework  web-development  software-development  rapid-prototyping  coffeescript 
may 2010 by Vaguery
Three Rivers Institute » Blog Archive » Capital-Efficient UI Design
"Yesterday I started using two services, UserTesting.com and fivesecondtest.com, that bring the same capital- and time-efficiency to UI design that open source tools brought to programming. Rather than work extremely hard getting the design right, then failing if you guess wrong, it is now quick and cheap to iterate. Have a crazy idea? Test it. Three alternatives? Test them."
user-experience  testing  web-design  SAAS  user-interface 
april 2010 by Vaguery
markupslicer | Slice your HTML/CSS markup into Ruby on Rails templates
"Markupslicer helps slicing your HTML markup into dynamic templates, used in your web applications, blog, etc."
web-design  web2.0  design  templates 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Liquid Layouts and Matrix Transposition
"But what if you wanted the data sorted by column, not by row? For this, CSS is inadequate: it’s capable of flowing from left to right, top to bottom."
web-design  plugin  typography  page-layout  matrix  css 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Processing.js - UI Dial with Snaps
"So I like to write a lot of music. I have not really released anything for a few years as I have been very busy freelancing in London on various web projects; and my music website was last updated before I started learning JavaScript.

I want to get back into writing music over the next year or two and started to think about how to make my site a little different. One of my ideas was to use a dial styled like an electronic keyboard to control my page through AJAX, so I set about creating the dial you see to your left.

As you can probably see, the dial has lights as point-markers which flash to the Beast Per Minute so when people click on my tunes, I can update the BPM on the UI Dial to add some depth to the user experience."
processing  processing.js  user-interaction  user-interface  control  web-design  tutorial  GUI  web2.0 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Documentation | Spritely
"Spritely is a simple plugin with only two key methods, sprite() and pan() both of which simply animate the background-image css property of an element. The difference between the two is that a 'sprite' image contains two or more 'frames' of animation, whereas a 'pan' image contains a continuous image which pans left or right and then repeats. Typically, in either case, you would use a png file (with or without transparency) for this. You might wish to use a transparent gif for Internet Explorer 6, though it probably won't look as good. Your html elements must already be the correct size you want the sprite to appear, but the background image will typically be larger than the html element, and the spritely methods reposition the background image within the html element."
javascript  html5  animation  web-design  via:jayturley  NO-FLASH 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Layouts and Rendering in Rails
"The main body of the view will always render into the unnamed yield. To render content into a named yield, you use the content_for method."
Rails  Ruby  programming  notes  web-design  software-development 
february 2010 by Vaguery
28 Rich Data Visualization Tools - InsideRIA
"What makes my job really interesting is that these clients are in different industries and are using different technologies. So we have pulled together a set of 28 tools for creating graphs, Gantt charts, diagrammers, calendars/schedulers, gauges, mapping, pivot tables, OLAP cubes, and sparklines, in Flash, Flex, Ajax or Silverlight."
visualization  web-design  software  libraries  javascript  graphic-design  charts 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Typekit Launches its Cloud-Based Web Font Service
"What that means is web designers can get easy access to creative fonts without having to spend the time preparing images or Flash files to render them, ideally resulting in time and cost savings in the design stage. It should also provide a more lightweight experience for your web server, because it won’t have to serve up the comparatively heavyweight image or Flash files to render a variety of design-quality fonts."
fonts  typography  design  graphic-design  web2.0  web-design 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Benchmarks: You are Doing it Wrong - plok
"On the outside it might appear that everybody who is not using Tool X is a moron. But speed & latency are only part of the picture. We already established that going from 5ms to 50ms might not even be noticeable by anyone using your product. The expense for speed can be multiple things:..."
profiling  software-development  web-design  web-applications  quality-of-service  latency  benchmarking 
october 2009 by Vaguery
About - cufon - GitHub
"Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set:

No plug-ins required – it can only use features natively supported by the client
Compatibility – it has to work on every major browser on the market
Ease of use – no or near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases
Speed – it has to be fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text
And now, after nearly a year of planning and research we believe that these requirements have been met."
fonts  web-design  design  programming  alternative  typography  css  javascript 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Customer service, not Ruby on Rails
"37signals not only constantly fine-tunes their products, they also think about the customer experience even when the customer is leaving.

I find that instructive, educational, and inspiring."
customer-service  business-culture  web-design  courtesy  design  user-experience  best-practices 
may 2009 by Vaguery
37 Shopping Cart Options for Developers | Vandelay Design Blog
"If you’re building an e-commerce website or adding a small store to an existing website, you have plenty of options to choose from. With so many different options and so much variety from one to another, there is no right or wrong solution, just different choices that may work best for you in different situations."
shopping-carts  ecommerce  web-design  programming  library  third-party-vendors  web2.0  gallery 
march 2009 by Vaguery
V2 suggestion on WeGottaEat
I would love to believe that totally ripping off copyrighted material in a design that is <i>available for public use right now</i> isn't a stupid, hamhanded, self-destroying instance of outright copyright infringement and bad design. But I'm not seeing the argument.
design  web-design  infringement  copycats  inspiration-does-not-involve-command-X 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Advogato: Blurring of MVC lines: Programming the Web Browser.
"php is the "language of choice" for the majority of web development, and it can be described as "The Visual Basic of Free Software" for very good reasons. Visual Basic gets a poor rap, because it is so easy to write bad code with. It takes years to become properly familiar with and proficient in Visual Basic, and php is no different. By the time a developer is familiar with php's rich and wonderful methods for self-mutilation, their lives have become so degraded that they wish they had never become programmers."
programming  MVC  design-patterns  web-design  applications  architecture  software  web2.0  development  javascript  python  essay 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Ad Mates
"Suppose you and your friends have a small project each. To increase traffic without spending much money, you could put up ads for each other. This site makes that a snap.

Login, create a group (public or private), and start uploading your ads. Add a link to the ad to your site and you’re done.

Best of all, Ad Mates is free."
advertising  free  web-design  web-applications  programming  social-software  community 
august 2008 by Vaguery
Home Page
the most inaccessible site I've ever seen; menus are graphics, everything is pale. Crap.
federal-blue-cross  blue-cross  insurance  web-design  bad  bad-design  accessibility 
august 2008 by Vaguery
Charlie's Diary: Why your internet experience is slow
If content is king, why is there so little of it on the web?
bloat  web-design  advertising  marketing  signal  noise  metrics 
june 2008 by Vaguery
SEO Rapping - a thaumaturgical compendium
"...but make sure you use good color combinations..."
search-engines  rap  SEO  web-design 
april 2008 by Vaguery
Overlook Press
Can't even spell "Lorem ipsum" right...
lorem-ipsum  web-design  mistakes  woops 
march 2008 by Vaguery
Hab.la
Interesting chat interface for interacting with site visitors via standard client apps.
chat  administration  tools  web-design  interactivity  user-experience  support 
february 2008 by Vaguery
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