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Friday, January 16th, 2009
This morning it occurred to me that I haven’t written a post about my RSS feeds. I’ve been meaning to for about a year now, but for whatever reason it hasn’t happened until now. I rely on my feed reader for a lot of inspiration so I feel like I should share that and maybe [...]
Tags: rss
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This Week in Links 12/16
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
10 Tips to Improve Your UI Smashing Magazine, once again, has a great article about user interface. This article gives you some quick and helpful tips on improving your user interface design. A lot of stuff we should all be doing. Anti-RSI This is a Mac program to help prevent RSI (which is basically carpal [...]
Tags: health, javascript, ui
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This Week in Links 12/2
Monday, December 8th, 2008
CSS Deployment 101 Reinhold Weber talks about how to compress a CSS file before you push it to the server. this will shave off some load time by reducing everything to one line and removing much of the white space. It also allows you to modularize your CSS without it effecting HTTP requests, because this [...]
Tags: conference, CSS, jquery
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This Week in Links 11/5
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Good Practice in Pagination Smashing put out a good article on a topic that I think gets overlooked a lot when dealing with user interface. A lot of times it’s taken for granted, but pagination is an important page of the UI. Freshbooks Freshbooks is a service for the freelancer out there. It’s a fast [...]
Tags: billing, fireworks, freelancing, pagination, ui
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This Week in Links 10/27
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Better CSS Font Stacks A good article on how to jazz up your stacks to try and take advantage of users who have more fonts installed. I’m all for this, and as long as it’s done carefully, can get a nice version of progressive enhancement. 5 Terrible SEO Ideas Richard Bradshaw goes over some trendy [...]
Tags: CSS, finances, font, javascript, jquery, seo, twitter
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This Week in Links 10/15
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
One Click, The Importance of UI Many times my link lists back up a few weeks and I have to revisit an article to really remember what it was about. When I did that to this one, I moved it up to the top of the list. It’s a very interesting article on user interface [...]
Tags: analytics, design, jquery, ui
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This Week in Links 10/6
Monday, October 6th, 2008
Tags: CSS, jquery, mac, maintainability, twitter
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This Week in Links 9/29
Monday, September 29th, 2008
jQuery Seek Attention Plugin The jQuery seek plugin is very cool. It goes along with the css psuedo class "target". It’ll highlight an area on the page onClick and ca bring a great pop to a page. Give this one a try, I could see this being very useful for those long FAQ lists.
Tags: android, business, google, iphone, jquery, mobile, pownce, startup
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This Week in Links 9/24
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Opera Web Standards Curriculum Ever since Opera accepted that no one uses their browser for general browsing they’ve been huge activists for the semantic web, and this yet another example of what they’re doing to help the web evolve and educate the masses. Kudos to Opera. This should be required reading for all new developer/designers [...]
Tags: apache, desktop, htaccess, jquery, lunch, mac, opera, training, zine
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