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Fluid images [Unstoppable Robot Ninja]
Ethan Marcotte’s approach to fluid images with scripted IE-fix support.
css  design  development  images  browsers  mobile  screen  size 
november 2010 by adriancooke
Harmony Website Management
Hosted content management system build on rails.
cms  design  development  tools  rails  ruby  hosting 
august 2010 by adriancooke
Padlicious
Information on automatically building iPad web apps using a Mac.
development  ipad  osx  automation  content  mobile 
july 2010 by adriancooke
The state of web development 2010 [Web Directions]
Data from John Allsopp’s 2010 “state of web development” survey.
data  industry  web  development  survey 
april 2010 by adriancooke
CSSUtilities [brothercake]
James Edwards’ new JavaScript library for revealing CSS properties on HTML elements.
javascript  css  utility  html  front-end  development 
april 2010 by adriancooke
SyntaxHighlighter [Alex Gorbatchev]
Alex Gorbatchev’s JavaScript syntax highlighter for styling code using HTML and CSS.
code  javascript  utility  tools  front-end  development 
march 2010 by adriancooke
iPhone development: 12 tips to get you started [SitePoint]
Stoyan Stefanov’s tips on optimizing web pages for the iPhone OS.
development  iphone  tips  reference  howto  javascript 
march 2010 by adriancooke
Star rating control with jQuery [SitePoint]
Craig Sharkie’s step-by-step guide to making a star rating control UI element using HTML, CSS and jQuery.
development  front-end  css  javascript  jquery  user  data  ratings  howto 
february 2010 by adriancooke
Web security: are you part of the problem? [Smashing Magazine]
Overview article that looks at the most common types of web site and web application vulnerabilities.
javascript  php  security  web  scripting  xss  urls  information  development 
january 2010 by adriancooke
Video on the web [Dive Into HTML5]
Mark Pilgrim’s guide to using video with HTML5.
reference  howto  tips  html  html5  video  web  development  markup 
december 2009 by adriancooke
Building iPhone apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript [O’Reilly Labs]
Jonathan Stark on how to build new and refactor existing web sites that are optimised for the iPhone OS.
css  development  html  iphone  javascript  ipod  refactoring  reference  howto 
december 2009 by adriancooke
Demo: an introduction to CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 [Marc Amos]
Documentation on and examples of supported CSS2.1 and CSS3 selectors.
web  development  css  reference  examples 
november 2009 by adriancooke
Chalkwork HTML royalty-free icons [mezzoblue]
Dave Shea’s “Chalkwork” icon set is now freely available.
css  design  interface  web  development  icons  free 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Why Standards Fail [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report]
Zeldman on the “humanism” of the original CSS 1 specification, and the importance of finding a practical middle ground between simplicity and technical capability when constructing web standards.
accessibility  css  design  development  html  specifications  standards  web  xhtml 
july 2009 by adriancooke
What to Include In Your Design Contracts [The Design Cubicle]
Brian Hoff on the basic building blocks of a (modifiable) freelance design contract.
business  design  development  contract  work 
july 2009 by adriancooke
Sitewide search on a shoe string [24 ways]
Christian Heilmann on building a custom site search using Yahoo’s BOSS (Build your Own Search Service).
api  development  search  site  tutorial  yahoo 
may 2009 by adriancooke
Easing the path from design to development [24 ways]
Drew McLellan on handing off front-end prototypes to developers.
css  design  development  front  end  process  tips 
may 2009 by adriancooke
Professional front-end engineering explained [456 Berea Street]
Roger Johansson’s links to a presentation by Nate Koechley (Yahoo!) that discusses what front-end engineering is.
design  development  front-end  usability  ui  work 
may 2009 by adriancooke
Live, on Drupal [Bb RealTech]
Shelley Powers on switching from WordPress to Drupal.
cms  data  development  drupal  tutorial  weblog  wordpress 
may 2009 by adriancooke
Design Tweaks Poll Results [WordPress Blog]
A little research by the WordPress development team on user interface preferences based on 10 variations on the existing UI.
development  interface  research  survey  ui  user  wordpress 
may 2009 by adriancooke
Easier page states for wireframes [24 Ways]
Richard Rutter discusses PolyPage, a jQuery plugin for building context-dependent wireframes (e.g. logged in, not logged in) using cookies.
interface  design  development  jquery  plugin  ux  wireframe 
april 2009 by adriancooke
Putting IE6 out to pasture [the 200ok weblog]
Ben Buchanan on making the case against IE6 support. He outlines a graded approach to the problem, ranging from full support to actively telling your users to avoid IE6. The in-between options are worth thinking about where developer choice is limited.
browsers  business  ie6  support  development  standards 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Simple clearing of floats [SitePoint]
Alex Walker on the overflow:auto method of float clearing.
css  development  tips  workaround 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Docking boxes (dbx) [brothercake]
James Edwards’ updated (version 3.0) script for adding accessible, animated drag-and-drop behaviours to HTML elements.
accessibility  behaviour  development  javascript  ui 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Supersleight jQuery plugin for transparent PNGs in IE6 [All in the Head]
Drew McLellan’s jQuery script that fixes PNG alpha channel transparency in IE6—making it work in both the HTML img element and in PNGs included via CSS.
css  development  ie6  png  jquery  plugin 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Open-sourcers get with the git [The Register]
Ted Dziuba on using git, whether you can convince the company to switch, or not.
development  git  programming  subversion  versioning 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Using HTTP Headers to Serve Styles [Eric's Archived Thoughts]
Eric Meyer on using HTTP headers via htaccess to serve a watermark stylesheet on the testing server.
development  css  http  headers  htaccess  testing  tips 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Sprite Optimization [mezzoblue]
Dave Shea on optimizing image sprites for performance with high traffic sites.
design  development  css  image  performance  optimisation  ui 
march 2009 by adriancooke
The Cost of Accessibility [All in the head]
Drew McLellan recognises the difficulty of developing accessible web applications, and calls on 280North, makers of the remarkable Cappuccino framework to consider accessibility now so that it can be implemented in a systematic way by those building applications.
accessibility  development  framework  javascript  webapps 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Ten great tools for working with HTML and CSS [CSS Orgy]
Includes a table markup generator, a couple of CSS cleanup tools, and a grid design tool.
design  development  css  tools  list 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Structural Tags in HTML5 [Ordered List]
Steve Smith on using new HTML5 elements for structural markup on current pages. Requires some basic scripting to support IE.
development  browsers  markup  html5  tutorial  semantics 
february 2009 by adriancooke
How I Might Deal with IE6 [SimpleBits]
Dan Cederholm on graded browser support, and specifically our old friend.
design  development  css  browsers  ie6  graded  support 
february 2009 by adriancooke
10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites [Smashing Magazine]
Paul Boag with tips on what to improve when running a corporate web sites. Can apply to universities too.
web  management  development  design  communication  marketing 
february 2009 by adriancooke
A New Image Replacement Technique: The State Scope Method [CSS Tutorials]
Paul Young describes a new method for image replacement based on whether images are supported at all, or for a given media type.
development  css  javascript  image  tutorial 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Mastering WordPress Shortcodes [Smashing Magazine]
Jean-Baptiste Jung explains WordPress shortcodes and provides examples of what you can do with them.
development  wordpress  php  tutorials 
february 2009 by adriancooke

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