Web Development News
10 ways to orientate users on your site
Imagine you're driving along and due to a road closure you have to follow those conspicuous yellow detour signs...via [WebDevTips.com]
Improving accessibility for motor impaired users
The unique requirements for motor impaired web users can often be overlooked or poorly implemented...via [WebDevTips.com]
Eye tracking: Eye candy vs. I can do
Eye tracking has been around for decades but has only become commercially available over the past few years. It has been heralded as the next big thing in user research...via [WebDevTips.com]
Split A/B testing
Following on from any website usability study a number of usability problems are usually found. There can often be debate within any organisation...via [WebDevTips.com]
Opening PDFs in a new window with JavaScript
Opening documents such as PDFs in a new window should be automated using JavaScript for the following reasons...via [WebDevTips.com]
Making the LINK tag useful
One tag that is surprisingly under used is the link tag...via [WebDevTips.com]
How to get your webpages onto the web
This guide will take you through the steps required to move your site from your computer onto the World Wide Web for all to see.via [WebDevTips.com]
Focus groups - how to run them
A focus group involves encouraging an invited group of participants to share their thoughts, feelings, attitudes and ideas on certain subject...via [WebDevTips.com]
Preparing your CSS for Internet Explorer 7
Later on this year Microsoft will officially release Internet Explorer 7...via [WebDevTips.com]
Content Management Nightmares
13 May 2008by Drew McLellan
via [All in the head]
Web Standards and Accessibility with Adobe Spry
10 May 2008by Drew McLellan
via [All in the head]
How Mergers And Acquisitions May Change The Search Engine Playing Field
22 Apr 2008by Lockergnome
Until recently, there were five major players in the search engine world: Google, MSN, AOL, Ask.com, and the Yahoo! search engine. These top Internet search engines quickly could be narrowed down to four, however; AOL uses the Google algorithm and will yield nearly identical results. Further narrowi... continuesvia [Web Developers]
Programming Groovy
22 Apr 2008by Lockergnome
Programming Groovy will help you learn the necessary fundamentals of programming in Groovy. You’ll see how to use Groovy to do advanced programming techniques including metaprogramming, Bbilders, unit testing with mock objects, processing XML, working with databases, and creating your own ... continuesvia [Web Developers]
How To Avoid Project Failure Through Project Planning And Effective Project R...
22 Apr 2008by Lockergnome
There you are, project manager of a brand new project, you have done your project planning and have started implementation. Now you are thinking about what you can tell your PMI colleagues at the next chapter meeting, creating a wondrous spreadsheet to avoid project failure and revolutionize project... continuesvia [Web Developers]
London Web Week
5 Apr 2008by Drew McLellan
via [All in the head]
Don't Import, Subscribe
28 Mar 2008by Drew McLellan
via [All in the head]
Project Management Doesn't Have To Be Hard
26 Mar 2008by Drew McLellan
via [All in the head]
Armadillo v3
24 Mar 2008by Drew McLellan
via [All in the head]
A Very Simple and Effective Captcha
9 Mar 2008I have a very simple anti-bot spam technique that works extremely well. It requires no javascript, cookies or complicated server weirdness, is fully accessible, has no hidden fields, has negligible overhead and takes just a moment or two to implement. It requires that the user fill out one field wit... continues
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
Version Targeting and JavaScript Libraries
24 Jan 2008by Drew McLellan
via [All in the head]
How To Set an Apple Touch Icon for Any Site
17 Jan 2008by Drew McLellan
via [All in the head]
Moving hkit Forward
16 Jan 2008by Drew McLellan
via [All in the head]
hKit now on Google Code
7 Jan 2008by Drew McLellan
via [All in the head]
Upcoming IE8: Interview with Bill Gates by Molly Holzschlag
6 Dec 2007by Shirley Kaiser
Fascinating reading to be had about the upcoming IE8 via a new interview of Bill Gates by Molly Holzschlag: Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency. Not long after the interview, the official IE Blog also announced the upcoming Internet Explorer 8. Check out the complete po... continues
via [Brainstorms and Raves - CSS]
Search Engine Friendly URLs with IIS and Classic ASP
14 Nov 2007A few years ago, I needed a Content Management System (CMS) for my site Voor Beginners and its English counterpart For Beginners. One of the requirements was, that the CMS should use "search engine friendly" URLs. This is fairly easy to accomplish with Linux and Apache; however, another requirement ... continues
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
Simulating Apache asis feature with very simple CGI
2 Nov 2007Apache's asis feature, provided by mod-asis, is a very simple way of sending static HTTP headers along with static content. Many installations of Apache have this disabled (the default) and those of us not on Apache are out of luck. This combination has led to this simple and useful feature being ov... continues
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
Google Algorithm Update Analysis
24 Aug 2007Anybody who monitors their rankings with the same vigor that we in the SEO community do will have noticed some fairly dramatic shifts in the algorithm starting last Thursday (July 5th) and continuing through the weekend. Many sites are rocketing into the top 10 which, of course, means that man... continues
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
Working with hierarchical data in SQL using Ancestor tables
20 Jul 2007This document describe an approach to SQL queries of hierarchical data using ancestor tables. Multiple inheritance are allowed but cycles are not allowed for this approach to work.
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
How to Get Listed in the DMOZ Directory
2 Jul 2007I'm a little confused. As an internet consultant specializing in search engine optimization, I believe that it is a good idea to submit your site to DMOZ (a.k.a. ODP or the Open Directory Project) --in fact, Google even encourages you to do so! However, being an ODP editor myself, I can tell yo... continues
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
How Visual Design Can Impact your Bottom Line
23 Jun 2007How do you know if you should invest more time and money into creating a killer design? This case study examines how the look and feel of the site can impact your overall conversion rate which can provide justification for a little more investment. View the old site, compare it to the new site and... continues
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
Failover Database Connection with PHP + mySQL
20 May 2007You want to connect to a mySQL database? Well, then it's likely you already know how. But how about connecting a second database if the first one fails? No? This could be a life saver.
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
Site review: French presidential campaign sites: voynet2007.fr
18 May 2007Dominique Voynet, a former minister of Environment and Equipment, is standing for the leftist Green party's in the French presidential election coming up at the end of April. Her campaign site, voynet2007.fr, seems to break an exceptionally high number of basic and seemingly well-accepted usabi... continues
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
Making websites: what's your target audience ?
15 Apr 2007If putting your business online means maximising the outreach, and a global audience, then Web Standards just add sense to your sensibility. A browser is never going to buy anything from you. The users should always get your content, no matter what platform they use, what media device they use, or w... continues
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Creating a Blog Entry Date Calendar Icon Look with CSS, Mostly
22 Feb 2007by Shirley Kaiser
I've received numerous inquiries about how I created the entry post calendar icon look for Brainstorms and Raves. So today's post shares the basics of the CSS and the two tiny background images I created to achieve the calendar icon look. (1308 words, 2 links, 12 images)
via [Brainstorms and Raves - CSS]
Inspiration, Insight Behind the New Happy Cog Redesign
10 Feb 2007by Shirley Kaiser
Do you ever wonder what goes into brainstorming sessions and creative ideas from some of the top names in the Web design field? You'll find that and much more with blog posts earlier this week by three creators of the latest redesign of Happy Cog's website - Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and D... continues
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Join Us! BrowserCam Subscription via Fundable Available
18 Dec 2006by Shirley Kaiser
The BrowserCam pool via fundable.org that I belong to is up for its annual renewal. It has a few openings for subscribers this time around. This subscription is for the BC-Complete plan, and the cost is US $26 for the 12-month subscription via fundable.org (information below). US $499.95 is the cost... continues
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New Web Accessibility Articles, Accessible Style Switching
12 Oct 2006by Shirley Kaiser
There are lots of great new and recent articles, tutorials, and tips about Web accessibility. Today's post includes links to articles and tutorials on Web accessibility in general, accessible forms, accessible style switching, including my own site's style switching, accessibility and the blind and ... continues
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Part 2: User-friendly Contextual Navigation with Simple PHP Includes
9 Oct 2006by Shirley Kaiser
Building on the previous post, User-friendly Contextual Navigation with Simple PHP Includes, I thought I'd take things one small and simple step further by using PHP once again, this time to add a CSS class for the current page. Then it's easy to use this CSS class to create a helpful visual cue wit... continues
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WebsiteTips.com Relaunch!
23 Mar 2006by Shirley Kaiser
I've been buried the last five months quietly working hard on a major redesign and restructuring of WebsiteTips.com. I'm now excited to announce that the all new WebsiteTips.com is now online. Read the complete post to learn all about it! (426 words, 11 links, 2 images)
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Website Testing: Conquering Cross-browser, Cross-platform Woes
14 Aug 2005by Shirley Kaiser
As I was doing final cross-browser testing for a redesign of SKDesigns, my website design business, the design implementation was working quite well in nearly every mainstream browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even the Lynx text-only browser. Unfortunately, though, I found problems with three old... continues
via [Brainstorms and Raves - CSS]
Web Development Links
50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1
List of JQuery pluginsDrupal Podcast No. 40: Top 40 Projects | Lullabot
jqzoom |
Zoom plugin - JQueryMVC vs. PAC | GarfieldTech
Submerged - Subversion Blog - Subversion 1.5 Merge Tracking a...
Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Doctype
jQpanels - AndreaCfm
Accordion and slidePanel - JQueryOfficial Google Mac Blog: App Engine Launcher for Mac OS X
The Official YAML Web Site
Svnmerge.py - SubversionWiki
Subversion Users: svnmerge r14632 - bidirectional svnmerge-integrated propert...
Learn Ruby on Rails: the Ultimate Beginner's Tutorial [Ruby & Rails]
20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient | Six Revisions
The tools described here are a variety of utilities, optimizers, testing, and debugging tools aimed towards helping developers create websites more efficiently.Tapestry - Welcome to Tapestry
Yahoo! Developer Network - Python Developer Center
WebWork - WebWork
HTML Reference
doctype - doctype - Google Code
"Doctype is a Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications. By web developers, for web developers."Welcome to webml.org -
web modeling language, uml profile for web developmentList of CSS Frameworks | WebTecker the latest Web Tech, Resources and News.
HTML tables tutorial with rounded corners
WebKit Nightly Builds
toolkit , supposedly similar to Firebugdecent tools and some good links from this site
CSS to JS conversion
AJAX and PHP Degradable Form Validation
Vitamin Features " Streamline your forms with widgets
Ajaxian " Polling for loaded content instead of simple setTimeout
10 useful CSS tricks
hacks, usability, good links from this page.CSS - centering elements horizontally
This page also has links to other CSS information such as centering vertically.Beauticons: Icon Design
Git - Fast Version Control System
Alternative zu SVN?editable_content_tag : The in_place_editor for Rails 2.0
CSSTidy
AJAX Form Validation: AJAX and PHP
JavaScript Challenge: Reverse a Linked List
Rubular
Ruby regular expression editorPubForge: Open Source Solutions for Public Broadcasters
Session variables without cookies
Via Delicious.
