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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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Clickable Labels
Monday, October 20th, 2008
In form design, there are many things you can do to improve usability, many of which have to do with label placement. I won’t go into the depths of it, but Chris from CSS-Tricks.com wrote a good article about placement, not too long ago. Read Chris’s article here Why read this? This reason I’m sitting [...]
Tags: CSS, form, ui, xhtml
Posted in Web Development, Web Standards | 5 Comments »
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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Setting your Apple icon
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Getting your own iPhone app icon is easier than you’d think. I was recently working on a project where the client wanted to make sure that if a user added his site to their iPhone home screen, there would be a pleasing icon. Apple used a lot of forward thinking when they implemented the apple-touch-icon. [...]
Tags: iphone, ipod, mobile
Posted in Browsers, Web Development | 3 Comments »
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
Posted in News, Web Development | 3 Comments »
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
Posted in News, Web Development, Web Standards | 2 Comments »
A New Breed of Microformat
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Because I’m a web dork (nice way to start a post, huh?), I was poking around YouTube last weekend and decided to crack it open in FireBug. I was on YouTube’s MayerMusic channel fiddling around with the video info section and notice that some of the info was wrapped in a quasi familiar class “vfacets”. [...]
Tags: google, mayermusic, microformats, youtube
Posted in Web Development, Web Standards | 3 Comments »
