#web (4,377 links)
- jQuery vs MooTools: Choosing Between Two Great JavaScript Frameworks jqueryvsmootools.com
Which one you choose really has more to do with your own style and what you need to accomplish.
- GigPark gigpark.com
Discover the trusted service people your friends use
- Trendrr - Track Compare Share trendrr.com
- The Social Web Analytics eBook socialwebanalytics.com
- CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
- stevenberlinjohnson.com: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News stevenberlinjohnson.com
""Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0" is the first of a series of documents to help web professionals use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0 to develop accessible websites."
- Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN developer.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.
- The 6 Dangerous Fallacies of Social Media | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting - Convince & Convert convinceandconvert.com
Inexpensive, fast, viral, unmeasurable, optional.
- Colour Contrast Analyser :: Firefox Add-ons addons.mozilla.org
Still experimental "A colour contrast analyser that examines the foreground and background colours of text nodes, and provides a report to see if they are correct according to AERT and WCAG's luminosity colour contrast algorithm."
- Indie Music Tech: Band Metrics Announces Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF) indiemusictech.com
Band Metrics decided to create the Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF), a free, open and portable XML based format for the purpose of sharing data relative to musicians and bands.
If all you're looking for is information access and traditional web type interactions with your users, then your investments will likely be better spent on a slick mobile site that differentiates for high, medium and low end devices. Your in-house web development folks ought to be able to crank something suitable out for you. If you want deeper interaction with the user or device, then you're going to start looking native. Development costs will be higher, timelines will be longer and life cycle management of your application is going to be much more involved, but you will get keystroke level interaction with the user and complete integration with the underlying OS. Widgets (and their engines) fall out somewhere in the middle.
Via dannero.
- spy :: visualizes the conversations on Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Blogs and more. spy.appspot.com · Archived on
spy can listen in on the social media conversations you're interested in.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Rich Snippets googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Google has started looking for microformats and RDFa. Finally, something concrete to put in front of clients when arguing for microformats.
- Adactio: Journal—Microformation adactio.com
Google announced that it was following in the footsteps of Yahoo’s SearchMonkey in indexing microformats and RDFa to display in search results. For now, it’s a subset of microformats—hCard and hReview—on a subset of websites, including the newly microformated Yelp. The list of approved sites will increase over time so if you’re already publishing structured contact and review information, let Google know about it. But the other new announcement is equally important. After a lot of hard work, the value class pattern is ready for use.
I’ve yet to meet a developer who would choose to build a screen from a wireframe over a Photoshop document, regardless of how many helpful and important details the wireframes may contain. Realizing this is human nature, we now annotating our PSDs rather than wireframes. Why hold the information in a document that’s no one wants to read?
Via rowanrosser.
- Six Apart - WordPress sixapart.com
TypePad have made some WordPress plugins: TypePad AntiSpam, Six Apart Media, TypePad Connect, and Blogs.com. TypePad Connect looks useful.
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Surveymonkey alternative.
Turns every tweet into it's own real-time thread. It brings Friendfeed-like real-time replying to Twitter.
- Fire Eagle Guest Pass slideshare.net
Presentation on ace Fire Eagle hack.
- Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework themeshaper.com
A free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it.
- Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle | urlgreyhot urlgreyhot.com
I've used Visio and Axure Pro in the past to do quick and dirty demos of interaction. With Visio, it's been easy to link sheets together. But I've been spending my time primarily in OmniGraffle Pro lately, so I wanted to demonstrate to the other Mac-using IA's and IxD's out there how you can do the same thing.
Via smitchio.
- WordPress › Last.fm For Artists « WordPress Plugins wordpress.org
Adds a widget to list an artists upcoming shows or your top tracks from Last.FM on your Wordpress blog
- Shopp — plugin ecommerce for wordpress shopplugin.net
An e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog."
The follow up to High Performance Websites, from Steve Souders and other yahoos.
"With limited influence, unlimited hands in the pie, a low barrier to critique, and the perception of triviality, frontend engineers are the janitors of software development. Rather than cleaning up trash, the boulder they toil beneath is skew: the distance between team member's conceptions of a project." Pies, pies, the sky is all pies.
- Mozilla Labs » Weave labs.mozilla.com
A prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop, and mobile phone can all work together. It currently supports continuous synchronization of your bookmarks, browsing history, saved passwords and tabs.
- Paul Irish » Browser-specific CSS hacks paulirish.com
"This, then, is my current thinking about embedded web fonts: FUCK THE FOUNDRIES." Mark Pilgrim rants.
Why Dave Shea is switching from XHTML to HTML.
- QuirksBlog: Introduction to W3C Widgets quirksmode.org
Hadn't realised there was a W3C Widget Spec in the pipeline.
- Want Success on Digg? Think Choc Chip Cookies - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Weird analogy but some useful points.
- Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step paulbuchheit.blogspot.com
Good argument to use for gzip. "Inevitably, someone will argue that they can't spare a few ms per page to compress the data, even though it will make their site much more responsive. However, it occured to me today that thanks to Amazon, it's very easy to compare CPU vs Bandwidth."
Creates a page fold effect in the top right corner.
- browsermedia's browsercms at master - GitHub github.com
Humane Content Management for Rails
Via tomtaylor.
- Free Music Archive freemusicarchive.org
"A social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio" from WFMU, KEXP, Cash Music, Dublab and others.
- Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities :: UXmatters uxmatters.com
The concept of usability often seems to exclude people with disabilities, as though just access is all they are entitled to. What about creating a good user experience for people with disabilities—going beyond making a Web site merely accessible to make it truly usable for them?