Posts Tagged ‘mobile’
Books that made me a better designer
Friday, May 7th, 2010
This is a list of books that have had a big impact on the way I design & developer Web sites. A lot of the content in books now-a-days can be found on various blogs, but the books below all have something in them that I really haven’t been able to find anywhere else. Transcending [...]
Tags: ajax, books, CSS, learning, mobile, sketching, ui
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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 »
Quick iPhone Media Detection
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I finally got around to reading David Shea’s post on MediaTyping today and as I was going through it, I asked myself if all the PHP he was using was really necessary. It sure wasn’t for what I wanted to do. I just wanted to detect an iPhone or iPod to test out some interfaces. [...]
Tags: firefox, iphone, mobile, php
Posted in Browsers, Web Development | 5 Comments »
Lack of news and some hot topics
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Has anyone noticed the lack of hopping in web development over the past month or so? The industry is usually so active that we can find new stories coming up in our RSS feeds every week. Maybe it’s the feeds I subscribe to, but the stories have been trickling in lately. Maybe we’re all off [...]
Tags: mobile, wai aria
Posted in News, Web Development, Web Standards | 3 Comments »
Quick note on mobile web design
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Before, you check: no, I haven’t made a handheld style sheet for this site yet, hopefully in the near future. Anyway, I’ve been reading up on some user interface principles in the past few months and have been talking up designing for mobile devices. First, I was looking into Fitts’s Law (I’ve seen it spelled [...]
Tags: CSS, fitts, mobile, usability
Posted in Browsers, Web Development | 3 Comments »
