#web (4,377 links)
- Del.icio.us Finally Gets Some Respect from Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Two calls for Delicious data are now supported inside BOSS: the number of times a URL has been bookmarked and the top tags that users have applied to categorize that URL. Delicious has its own API, but it's not as helpful as this integration with BOSS is.
- Designers Toolbox: Web Safe Area designerstoolbox.com
PSDs illustrating safe areas for various browsers.
Via thegingerbloke.
- Twitter Traffic Explodes...And Not Being Driven by the Usual Suspects! (comScore Voices) comscore.com · Archived on
Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic recently authored an interesting blog post about the demographics of Twitter users. What he discovered was that 18-24 year olds, the traditional social media early adopters, are actually 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter (Index of 88). It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend.
Via smitchio.
- Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta informationarchitects.jp · Archived on
New Web Trends map is nearly there.
The social sites we visit today are not just friend networks - they're also built around objects that connect people with shared interests. These social objects could be anything from a photo on flickr to a video on YouTube or a track on Last.fm.
Possible sandbox alternative.
- Horizon of Stars: Intersection of the web and tangible objects (manufacturing-as-a-service) simoncast.blogspot.com
Manufacturing-as-a-service removes the equipment and capital barrier to entry for new product companies. These companies can focus on product design and building the community around the product and leave the operation of the manufacturing hardware to manufacturing-as-a-service guys.
- Alkaline - Litmus litmusapp.com
"Tests your website designs across 17 different Windows browsers right from your Mac desktop in seconds. No need for virtual machines, Windows licenses, or any messing around with Windows Update." Requires a litmus account.
- Ending the Great H1 Debate | Web Design Blog: Web Design & Innovation in web standards : Viget Labs viget.com · Archived on
According to Cutts, more than one h1 is fine as long as you don't go crazy. Pretty much as expected.
Take a look at Verified By Visa. Allegedly this protects cardholders - by training them to expect a process in which there’s absolutely no way to know whether you are being phished or not.
- Intro to Git for Web Designers | Webdesigner Depot webdesignerdepot.com
- Send Me Home - World Peace through Wandering Items sendmehome.com
A free tool that lets you assign a unique code to anything.
- NVDA – a free, open source screen reader | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Hadn't come across this one.
When all the sections end evenly on the page, users subconsciously decide there isn’t anything else to look for and don’t try to scroll. Of course, if they don’t scroll, they miss important content, such as the list of products.
- 50 swinish ways to annoy web users | Blog | Econsultancy econsultancy.com
Makes a handy checklist of stuff not to do.
- Bring Back The Webmaster | crackunit.com crackunit.com
"What I like about the term webmaster is that it implies that one person is the big boss. The master of the site. The person who speaks with the voice of the machine. When you come across a brilliant site it so often feels like it comes through one person. Or at least there’s a very strong sense of singularity in the way it’s written and presented." I always wanted to be a webmaster.
- noswfupload - Google Code code.google.com
Multiple files upload without SWF objects, applets Java, or other third parts plug-ins.
- Boards >> The Natural Selection of Interestingness boardsmag.com
Despite early hype, viral films are still few and far between. Why? Where is viral now, how has it evolved, and what's the future for disseminating online content?
Via rowanrosser.
The relationship between musicians and the people who make music websites is slightly broken. The problem is that anyone developing a new service for bands has to make money to keep the project afloat - and that means pulling in enough eyeballs to sell advertising on the site. The best way to get people to stick around to click on some ads? Make them invest time and energy in creating a profile, and encourage them to continually update it.
- Heroku heroku.com
- Expression Web SuperPreview makes cross-browser testing like moist delicious cake - istartedsomething istartedsomething.com
Allows you to compare different [IE] rendering engines in a single unified interface
More on font stacks.
- Color Oracle colororacle.cartography.ch
Takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.
- Accessibility Tips accessibilitytips.com
Yahoo folk providing accessibility info.
- django-compress - Google Code code.google.com
A Django application that automates CSS/JavaScript compression and helps in making delivery of static media more efficient
- Akoha ~ Come Play It Forward akoha.com
The world’s first social reality game where you can earn points by playing real-world missions with your friends. Missions might include giving someone your favorite book, inviting a friend for drinks, or buying a friend some chocolate.
- Guardian opens APIs and data | Media | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"The Guardian launched its 'Open Platform' with APIs for all of its content and a sets of data collected by its editors." Brave. Ace.
- Rescue Team Management, Incident Logs, Analytics: Decisions For Heroes. decisionsforheroes.com
Makes me wish I was a hero. "A collaborative rescue team management tool to record and analyse rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork, we act as a platform, generating real-time profiles of members, available resources, and activities. Decisions for Heroes uses this data to deliver live and intelligent information to the field."
- Stubbornella » Blog Archive » CSS doesn’t suck, you’re just doing it wrong. stubbornella.org · Archived on
You think of people who do know CSS as designers, not giving any credit to the engineering prowess required to tame the stylesheet of a multinational corporation because (self-taught as they are) most true front-end gurus don’t speak the same language as you do. Their skill appears to be a black-art, some kind of magic, or internalized instinct for browser flaws. This is your guess anyway, because you simply can’t communicate with them.
When you care about performance, or SEO (or just doing a good job as web dev) an interesting data point is the ratio of page content vs. the markup used to present this content. Or... how much crap we put in HTML in order to present what the users want to see - the content.
- Stubbornella » Blog Archive » Object Oriented CSS, Grids on Github stubbornella.org
Object Oriented CSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.
- WPtouch: WordPress On iPhone ↔ BraveNewCode Inc. bravenewcode.com
Automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-like experience when viewed from an iPhone or iPod touch.
- jQuery Accessible Tabs - How to make tabs REALLY accessible - web output blog.ginader.de · Archived on
While a lot of Tabs-Scripts claim to be accessible it turns out, most of them are really not.
- Cappuccino is not designed for building web sites,... · Ben Ward's Scattered Mind micro.ben-ward.co.uk · Archived on
When I hear a friend talking about learning Cappucino I react as if they’ve been tricked out of their money by a con-artist on a street corner. I think they’ve been conned out of true knowledge, duped down the wrong path. “Don’t be like those schmucks learning HTML! Just take these magic beans!”.
- 960 Grid System 960.gs
Really don't like these grid-based frameworks but there's some useful general info on grids here.
- iui - Google Code code.google.com
User Interface (UI) Library for Safari development on iPhone
Useful for justifying/explaining.