#web (4,377 links)
- The Beauty of CSS3 Animation | INSIC DESIGNS blog.insicdesigns.com
- How to Use Link TITLE Attribute Correctly | Search Engine Journal searchenginejournal.com
Useful one to point clients at. "A couple of years ago, Googlers confirmed they did not use TITLE attribute in the algorithm because it was used too seldom. This has changes since then but I still failed to spot any evidence that link TITLE attribute somehow influenced the rankings."
Via alastc.
- Official Google Enterprise Blog: Modern browsers for modern applications googleenterprise.blogspot.com
Google gradually dropping support for IE6. "Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites."
Not entirely buying all the arguments in this one but raises some very worthwhile points.
- Open Site Explorer Link Analysis opensiteexplorer.org
SEOMoz's new link popularity checker and backlink analysis tool.
- Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem? - Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Via twoplusfour.
Very nice.
This looks like it could be most handy. "If you’re building a multi-language website or app, you probably use language files. When you change content in one language file, you need to remember to update the other language files. Even with source control, this can get messy pretty quickly if you have many languages, many translators or a large site. We encountered these problems ourselves and needed a tool to keep things organized - so we built String."
Via paul.irish.
- CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design • Perishable Press perishablepress.com
A fine looking round-up.
Via paul.irish.
- Redmine - Overview - Redmine redmine.org
A RoR Trac clone.
Unofficial webfaction install scripts: CakePHP, AWStats, MediaWiki and more...
- WebFaction Forum / Redirecting a HTTP site to a HTTPS site. forum.webfaction.com
Webfaction-specific. Useful for build tools (create a new non-HTTP site in webfaction with an automagic redirect to https equivalent url).
- How to obtain and install an SSL/TLS certificate, for free arstechnica.com
Anyone operating a server on any scale should want a digital certificate to encrypt data between clients and services, whether for personal, office, or public use. Ars tells you how to obtain and install one, for free.
Via tomtaylor.
- ongoing · Doing It Wrong tbray.org
What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.
- django-lint - Statically check Django applications « code « lamby chris-lamb.co.uk
Reports on common programming errors and bad code smells, including checking for nullable CharField field types, the use of brittle or deprecated Django features (such as auto_now_add) as well as the absence of recommended options in settings.py. It aims to encourage the development of high-quality re-usable Django applications.
- virtualhost-sh - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
This script allows you to easily create virtual hosts for a development environment on Mac OS X with the built-in Apache server so that you can reflect a production environment locally.
Via thegingerbloke.
- Setting up Photoshop for web and iPhone dev bjango.com
Most people who have designed web sites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aims to solve those problems once and for all.
Via thegingerbloke.
- Perfection kills » Optimizing HTML perfectionkills.com
Via paul.irish.
- ImageOptim – PNG/JPEG/GIF optimizer for Mac OS X imageoptim.pornel.net
"Optimizes images [...] by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations." Be interesting to see how this stacks up against smush.it.
Via infovore.
Gives you any grid you want, anywhere you want: Typographic Grids, Golden Sections, Fibonacci series or Rule of Thirds. Thats not all, Slammer also has Rulers, Crosshairs, Magnifier, Measurements & Screenshots
"Some of the tricks are brand new, some are very, very old, IE5.5. old. They all have in common the "fewer or no images" mantra."
Via paul.irish.
- Templating Engines in PHP - Fabien Potencier fabien.potencier.org
Fabien Potencier of Symfony on PHP templating and his django-like twig template language.
- Soma FontFriend • Soma Design somadesign.ca
A bookmarklet for typographically obsessed web designers. It enables rapid checking of fonts and font styles directly in the browser without editing code and refreshing pages.
Via twoplusfour.
- Pagetest - where web sites go to get FAST! webpagetest.org
Shows "a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist."
- Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Browser Size googlecode.blogspot.com
I'm not sure I approve.
- 24 ways: Going Nuts with CSS Transitions 24ways.org
- Twig - The flexible, fast, and secure template language for PHP twig-project.org
Via markrocky.
- Visual Website Optimizer - Hassle-free A/B, Split and Multivariate Testing visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
- Easy front-end framework easyframework.com
A CSS/HTML/JavaScript framework started as a personal project and then grew into something more. The idea behind it is to reduce the amount of time spent on setting up the basic master HTML template by reusing the same coding techniques.
- 24 ways: Working With RGBA Colour 24ways.org
- Google Public DNS code.google.com
A free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.
- Zend Framework: Documentation framework.zend.com
Zend Framework Coding Standard for PHP
- High Performance Web Sites :: Google Analytics goes async stevesouders.com
It’s extremely cool to see this pattern being evangelized for such a major piece of the Internet.
- HTML Email Starter Template: Free Download - ravelrumba ravelrumba.com
It’s not intended to be a fully designed template, but rather a foundation for a design.
- SilverStripe.org - Open Source CMS / Framework silverstripe.org
- DELTA 9 « Site relaunch: The tech stuff delta-9.net
A good/useful moan about Wordpress. Plus, Delta 9 is back. Yay!
- minify - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
"A PHP5 app that helps you follow several of Yahoo!'s Rules for High Performance Web Sites. It combines multiple CSS or Javascript files, removes unnecessary whitespace and comments, and serves them with gzip encoding and optimal client-side cache headers." Hubba, hubba.
- QuirksBlog: Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. quirksmode.org
"Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. Their problems with the App Store approval process are entirely their own fault and they deserve no commiseration." Rather extreme viewpoint from PPK (with some merit, though).
- Log in or sign up? - Leah Culver's Blog blog.leahculver.com
Sometimes I put my log in information into the register fields.
Me too! I hate that not only do I feel stupid, I have to retype everything again.
Via smitchio.
- Fan Box - Facebook Developer Wiki wiki.developers.facebook.com
Info on the new(ish) embeddable Fan Box for Facebook Pages.
- The League of Moveable Type theleagueofmoveabletype.com
only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.
"This document aims to lay out the pros and cons of two popular web publishing platforms: The PHP-based Drupal content management system (CMS) and the Python-based Django framework." With a bit of Wordpress thrown in.