#web (4,377 links)
- Website performance Q&A with Steve Souders from Google | Royal Pingdom royal.pingdom.com · Archived on
Statistics from Amazon, Google, Jupiter Research and others show that a faster web site increases traffic, repeat visits, clicks, and conversions. There are two other motivations, in addition to these user metrics, that I give for always working to improve the speed of your web site. First, even if your site is fast enough for some users, there are always other users with slower connections. Mediocre performance in the U.S. means an unbearable experience in other parts of the world. If you hope to attract and retain a global audience, your site has to be blazingly fast under normal conditions so that under degraded conditions it’s still usable.
- Playdar - Music Content Resolver playdar.org
A music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and more.
- Homepage - Defacto defacto-cms.com
Hosted, accessible CMS solution from Nomensa.
Missing. The. Point.
- jQTouch jqtouch.com
A jQuery plugin with native animations, auto list navigation, and default application styles for Mobile WebKit browsers like iPhone, G1, and Pre.
- New CSS Sticky Footer - 2009 cssstickyfooter.com
Working in all major browsers, including Google Chrome!. It works with floated 2-column layouts and we don't get overlap in resized browser windows unlike older solutions you find when you Google sticky footer. And you don't need an empty push div.
Via smitchio.
- Build Your Own URL Shortening Service - ronny.haryan.to ronny.haryan.to
- Walls Come Tumbling Down presentation slides and transcript | For A Beautiful Web forabeautifulweb.com
Excellent overview of agile (small-a) process from Malarkey
A simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.
- Adactio: Journal—Building Reprieve adactio.com
I persevered, I obediently followed the tutorial, and I discovered all the things that make Django such a powerful framework; the excellent separation of concerns, the superb templating system, the lack of so-called front-end “helpers” that cripple other server-side frameworks. I think Gareth was really onto something when he noticed the way that the web standards world appears to be choosing Django.
A service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual.
- Web-Connected Light Sensors With Pachube & Arduino readwriteweb.com
- LABjs (Loading And Blocking JavaScript) labjs.com
"It's like a lot of similar projects where the goal is to improve the speed of page load by allowing scripts to load in parallel. The thing it does slightly differently than most others like it is it allows you to "block", which is to say, load one or more scripts in parallel, then wait for them to finish, before going on to something else, like loading more scripts."
For those who have no control over which clients and projects come to them, there is still hope, because everyone on the web (not just professional designers and developers) has the ability to produce meaningful content, and every designer and developer additionally has the power to create products and services. As your own client, working alone, or with a carefully hand-picked team, you can produce great things
- Let's make the web faster - Google Code code.google.com
Google hops on the performance bandwagon. Should be interesting.
RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative.
- ShiftSpace | An open source layer above any webpage shiftspace.org
An open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web.
- To Sprite Or Not To Sprite at Vladimir Vukićević blog.vlad1.com
"There are a number of misconceptions about CSS Sprites, the main one being that they have no downsides." Memory usage.
Via paul.irish.
- SWFUpload jQuery Plugin : Adam Royle blogs.bigfish.tv
Makes working with SWFUpload easier
- Welcome | MagCloud magcloud.com
MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we'll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.
- Writing Microcopy - Bokardo bokardo.com
The fastest way to improve your interface is to improve your copy-writing.
Via smitchio.
"While working on the Odeo relaunch, we kept running into a frustrating problem: When we saved out the slices, the awesome Odeo pink flattened to a dreary "light coral". I'd seen the problem before, but never so pronounced: The color, through no fault of its own, was obviously changing, and we were at a loss for a way to prevent this."
Why Photoshop color changes washes out lightens darkens unsaturates desaturates fades when Save for Web, Jump To, Edit In ImageReady Photoshop, or posted on the www internet, on the monitor display screen or on the printed inkjet laser print.
Adds a tab to Firebug for measuring the load time of web pages.
Via tomtaylor.
Click on a flavor, and watch as it generates a serving of fake information right before your eyes. Use it as filler copy, in your book report, or whisper it to your special someone.
Via flippers.
Keeps an eye on 44 website policies. Every time one of them changes, you'll see an update here.
Handy-looking feedback tool.
Why building a complex feed fetching and parsing infrastructure when you could just use ours? Superfeedr is Real-time Feed Parsing in the Cloud.
- Woobius introduces the construction industry to 21st century collaboration uk.techcrunch.com · Archived on
"You’d think that with the futuristic and gravity defying creations they spawn, architects would be leading the vanguard of efficient working practices. It turns out they’re still stuck in the 90s, where sharing files and collaborating with partners and clients is done via CD and bike messenger, or – shock! horror! – even printouts sent by post." I don't find that surprising in the least. Woobius looks interesting, though.
- Pirata London - Your Digital Production Partners piratalondon.com
- Mindshare Report - Executive Summary - Social Media Academy slideshare.net
I hate the word "mindshare".
- Page Speed firebug extension code.google.com
Google's answer to ySlow.
- Permatime permatime.com
Imagine you want to announce an event with participants across different time zones. Simply set the time, in your time zone, and permatime.com will generate a link for it. If you share this link with others, they will see that time in their own local time zone.
- Slicehost - VPS Hosting slicehost.com
- jqPlot - Pure Javascript Plotting jqplot.com
"Computation and drawing of lines, axes, shadows even the grid itself is handled by pluggable "renderers". Not only are the plot elements customizable, plugins can expand functionality of the plot too! There are plenty of hooks into the core jqPlot code allowing for custom event handlers, creation of new plot types, adding canvases to the plot, and more."
Via paul.irish.
A really little content management system for when you (or your clients) need to edit content without the hassle of setting up a big CMS.
- mySociety » Blog Archive » Say hello to Mapumental mysociety.org
Mapumental is the culmination of an ambition mySociety has had for some time - to take the nation’s bus, train, tram, tube and boat timetables and turn them into a service that does vastly more than imagined by traditional journey planners. In its first iteration it’s specially tuned to help you work out where else you might live if you want an easy commute to work.